About us
The research group Histories of Art, Architecture and Visual Culture (VISU) offers a platform for fundamental research on the history and theory of art, architecture and visual culture from the early modern period up to the present. We study not only the artistic and architectural practice, the material object and the spatial environment, but also the broader cultural, historical and societal context, which often relates to current themes such as new media, visualisation of conflict and war, urbanisation, sustainability, multiculturality and globalisation. Key questions concern the circulation of images, artefacts, practices and knowledge across boundaries. These cross-overs are understood as mutual interactions between the different arts and as exchanges between different cultures, traditions, regions or periods.
Recent News
Origin of famous Veere cup discovered by Hanne Schonkeren
VISU member Hanne Schonkeren discovered that the famous sixteenth-century ornamental cup, preserved in the city hall of Veere, was made in Antwerp.
VISU at the Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference 2024
We are excited to share that VISU members Tine Meganck and Hanne Schonkeren will be presenting their research at the Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA) Conference, which will take place in Cambridge on 10-13 July 2024.
Tacit knowledge and sensory experience in a sixteenth-century gold and silversmithing workshop
VISU member Hanne Schonkeren will be presenting her research at the 36th Congress of the Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art, hosted in Lyon, 23 - 28 June 2024.
Events
Practical info-Remediating photography in community archives and the question of epistemic reparations
VISU member Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans and student Zoë Kennis (Talent for Research Program) will be presenting their research at the Intermedial Networks -- The Digital Present and Beyond, organized from 23-25 October 2024, and taking place at Linnaeus University in Växjö.
Practical info-Workshop ‘Flanders In Florence: Architectural Exchanges In Context, 1400-1600’
The international workshop ‘Flanders in Florence: Architectural Exchanges in Context, 1400-1600’, organized by VISU members Caterina Cardamone and Pieter Martens in collaboration with Gianluca Belli, takes place at the NIKI in Florence on 17-18 October 2024.
Practical info-Public defense of Senne Schraeyen
VISU member Senne Schraeyen will be defending his PhD project "Sustainable Yet Forgotten: Rediscovering the contribution of Belgian art practices to the second wave of environmentalism".
