Matthias Weiß

Matthias Weiss Foto: © Hubert Auer

Prof. Dr. Matthias Weiß
Professor of Art History (Modern Period), Head of the Department of Art, Music and Dance Studies, Head of the Department of Art History

Unipark Nonntal, Erzabt-Klotz-Straße 1, Room 2.431, 5020 Salzburg

Tel.: +43 (0)662 8044 4601
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Office Hours

Tuesday, 15:00–16:00
How to book: Please email Ms Barth to arrange an appointment

Research Interests

  • Staged photography

  • Performance art and its mediation

  • History and aesthetics of music videos

  • Transcultural exchange processes

  • Architectural history and heritage conservation

Biography

Matthias Weiß’ academic background encompasses studies in Architecture at the Technical University of Munich, as well as in Art History and Theatre Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin. Following the completion of his doctoral studies, which focused on the analysis of citation practices in music videos, he proceeded to conduct research and teach at several prestigious academic institutions, including Freie Universität Berlin and the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History. Currently, he serves as the principal investigator of a major research project entitled “Images of Europe Beyond Europe,” which is being conducted under his leadership. His habilitation thesis on Joseph Beuys’s television actions was awarded the Joseph Beuys Research Prize in 2019. Since August 2020, he has held the professorship for Art History with a focus on the Modern Period at University of Salzburg.

Publications

Blick Richtung Europa? Dreißig ‚außereuropäische‘ Objekte geben Antwort (Römische Schriften der Bibliotheca Hertziana, Band 52), hg. mit Tanja Michalsky, München: Hirmer 2024.

Beuys auf Sendung. Bestandskatalog des ehemaligen Joseph Beuys Medien-Archivs in der Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Köln: Wienand 2022 (Habilitationsschrift).

Madonna revidiert. Rekursivität im Videoclip, Berlin: Reimer 2007 (Dissertation).

Wechselblicke. Zwischen China und Europa 1669–1907 / Exchanging Gazes. Between China and Europe 1669–1907. Für die Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / For the Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Petersberg: Michael Imhof 2017 (gem. mit / together with Eva-Maria Troelenberg und / and Joachim Brand).

Was ist „inszenierte Fotografie“? Eine Begriffsbestimmung, in: Lars Blunck (Hg.): Fotografische Wirklichkeit. Inszenierung – Fiktion – Narration, Bielefeld: transcript 2010, S. 37–52.

Complete List of Publications

Memberships and Awards

  • Member of the jury for the Otto Breicha Prize for Photographic Art – Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2021)

  • Recipient of the Joseph Beuys Research Prize (2019)

  • Head of the research project “Images of Europe Beyond Europe” at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History

  • Associated member of the Center for Advanced Studies BildEvidenz. History and Aesthetics at Freie Universität Berlin (April 2015–May 2019)

  • Postdoctoral Fellow in the Max Planck Research Group Objects in the Contact Zone. The Cross-Cultural Life of Things at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence – Max Planck Institute (January–March 2015)

  • Nomination of the edited volume Re-staged photography for the German Photobook Prize (2012) (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2011, co-edited with Klaus Krüger and Leena Crasemann)

  • Associated member of the graduate programme Image – Body – Medium. An Anthropological Perspective at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (2002–2006)

  • Doctoral fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Düsseldorf (2002–2004)