Stockholm university
Denna sida på svenska

Andrea KollnitzProfessor

About me

Andrea Kollnitz is professor of Art History and head of the Art History Department, Stockholm University.

 

Teaching

Kollnitz is pedagogical director of studies on basic and advanced level and teaches on all levels, with special responsibilities in courses on Visual studies (BL) and Portraiture (BL). She further supervises theses on all levels.

Research

After her PhD with the dissertation Konstens nationella identitet. Om tysk och österrikisk modernism i svensk konstkritik 1908-1934 (The National Identity of Art. On German and Austrian Modernism in Swedish Art-criticism 1908-1934) at the department of Art History at Stockholm University in 2008, Kollnitz worked as a senior lecturer at the Centre for Fashion studies, Stockholm University, 2009-2018. Her research is focussed on themes as art and nationalism, art- and fashion discourses during the early 20th century, the Nordic avant-garde from transnational perspectives, the avant-garde artist's role, artists' self-fashioning, connections between fashion and art during modernism, fashion photography and fashion image. Kollnitz is co-editor of the books Fashion and Modernism (Bloomsbury 2018,  in Swedish: Modernism och mode, Carlssons 2015) and A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries, vol 2: 1925-1950 (Brill, 2019), Fashion, Performance & Performativity (Bloomsbury, 2021), Fashion Aesthetics and Ethics (Bloomsbury, 2022) and about to publish the monograph Becoming Leonor Fini: Theatrical Self-Performances between Art and Life (Bloomsbury 2025) about the surrealist artist Leonor Fini and her dressed-up self-performances. Further, since 2020 she is leading the reserach project Surrealism in Sweden 1930-2000: Between Presence and Absence, in collaboration with Kristoffer Noheden, cinema studies.

Publications

A selection from Stockholm University publication database

Show all publications by Andrea Kollnitz at Stockholm University

Edit the profile