Oliver Klaassen

Oliver Klaassen, currently a Ph.D. candidate International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus Liebig University (JLU) Giessen, who works at the intersection of art studies and queer studies. His dissertation project is tentatively entitled »Radically Ambiguous Politics of Queer In_Visibilities in Contemporary Art Photography«. Klaassens broader research interests include history and theory of photography, queer art and media studies, critical curatorial studies & art education, politics of aesthetics, and ethics of visuality. He has professional experience in the following areas (selection):

(1) RESEARCH: visiting scholar at University of Southern California’s Roski School of Art and Design in Los Angeles (2019), archival research in New York (2018), visiting scholar at State University of New York at Buffalo (2017), speaker of Research Area 4 Visual and Material Culture Studies at GCSC at JLU Giessen (2016-2017), and research assistant at Institute for Material Culture at Carl Ossietzky University Oldenburg (2011-2016).

(2) TEACHING: 2016-present: lecturer at different universities (Frankfurt, Giessen, Marburg & Oldenburg) (2016-present).

(3) EDITORIAL WORK: editorial team member for On_Culture, an Open Access peer-reviewed journal (summer 2019-present).

(4) MUSEUM, EXHIBITION & ART EDUCATION: student employee at Museum Cosulting Service Dr. Beate Bollmann in Oldenburg (2015-16), art educator at Horst-Janssen-Museum in Oldenburg (2013-2016), and intern at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York (2013) as well as at Schwules Museum* in Berlin (2012).

For his study and research performance, Oliver Klaassen has received various scholarships (Fulbright Doctoral Scholarship, Ph.D. Scholarship, Dr. h.c. Waskönig Scholarship, PROMOS Scholarship, ‘Deutschlandstipendium’, Fulbright Travel Grant, etc.).