Team

Ines Gerber

doctoral researcher

Modern Jewish History, Leipzig University

Academic CV

Studied Art History and Cultural Studies at the University of Leipzig and the Université Paris X Nanterre. During an Erasmus semester at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, attended courses in Jewish History and the History of the Middle East. Completed her MA degree in Art Studies at TU Berlin in 2024, with a thesis on Chana Orloff’s memorial monuments in Israel. Spoke on agrarian romanticism as an antisemitic code at the 2024 symposium »Antisemitische Symbole in Kunstobjekten: (Anti-)Kapitalistische Kontexte und gesellschaftliche Wirkungen«, organized by Forum Kunst und Markt in collaboration with the Digital Provenance Research Unit at TU Berlin and the Art Education Department at HFBK Hamburg. Since 2025, member of the working group »Kunst und Antisemitismus« at the Ulmer Verein (Association for Art and Cultural Studies)

Research Interests

  • History of Women in Art
  • Sculptural Practice in the Context of Material Culture and Alltagsgeschichte
  • Cultural History of Jewish Migration
  • Agrarian Ideologies and Antisemitism in Visual Culture
  • Visual Representations of the Femme Fatale

Research Project

  • Processing Loss and Fostering Resilience – Jewish and Female Sculptural Strategies of Coping with the 20th Century

Publications

Monographs

Das Leben als Quelle der Kunst: Chana Orloffs Denkmäler in Israel zwischen persönlichem Zeugnis und nationalem Narrativ, Technische Universität Berlin 2024,  https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-20971.

 

Essays and Articles

»Die Schlange hat mich verführt und so habe ich gegessen.« – Psychoanalytische und feministische Perspektiven auf den Bund zwischen Frau und Schlange. in: frame[less] - Das digitale Magazin für Kunst in Theorie und Praxis, Issue 8, 2024, http://framelessmagazin.de/die-schlange-hat-mich-verfuehrt-und-so-habe-ich-gegessen-psychoanalytische-und-feministische-perspektiven-auf-den-bund-zwischen-frau-und-schlange-2024-ines-gerber.