Dr. Isabel Rith-Magni

Lecturer for special tasks in art history since 2018

Research associate (part-time) to Prof. Dr. Gabriele Oberreuter since 2013 and teaching in the Studium Generale
 

2013-2015 Transfer office “Participatory Art” as part of a cooperation between Alanus University and the Montag Stiftung Kunst und Gesellschaft. Organization of event series (“Open Forum”) on art and social participation

Until 2013 (since 1993), editorial head of the international cultural magazine Humboldt (published by the Goethe-Institut, formerly Inter Nationes) with a target audience throughout Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. (As part of this work, many business trips to various Latin American countries.)

Freelance editorial contributor to the Goethe-Institut website / section “Visual Arts” since 2014

Freelance teaching assignments at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences since 2012
 

2006-2007 freelance lecturer in art history at the Sokolov Academy of Fine Arts, Bonn
 

Freelance lecturer at the “Institute for Translation and Multilingual Communication” (ITMK) at the University of Applied Sciences (formerly Cologne University of Applied Sciences) since 2004
 

Freelance work as an author, editor, translator, and foreign-language proofreader (Spanish/German) for magazines, exhibition catalogs on contemporary art, and anthologies on cultural-historical topics since 1995
 

1993 doctorate. Dissertation topic: Ancestralismo. The search for cultural identity in Latin American art of the second half of the 20th century using the examples of Ecuador and Peru. (Published by Eberhard Verlag, Munich)
 

1989-1991: Conceptualization, planning, and organizational preparatory work for the traveling exhibition “Ancestralismo pictório” (Abstract painting of the 1960s and 1970s in the Central Andean states), which was to be shown in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and the Federal Republic of Germany in 1992. (The project failed at the last moment due to funding difficulties.)
 

1987 internship in the textile restoration workshops of the Museo Nacional de Antropología, Peru
 

1987 teaching German as a foreign language at the Peruvian primary school “Giordano Bruno”, Lima.

1987-1988 traineeship at the Museo de Arte in Lima, Peru. Tasks included: preparation of text material for a didactic guide to the permanent exhibition “3000 Years of Art in Peru”; archival work; inventorying pre-Hispanic ceramics; conservation and restoration of a pre-Columbian mummy cloth.

1986 Magister degree. Topic of the master’s thesis: Methodological reflection on Erwin Panofsky’s iconology using Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights”
 

1981 beginning of studies at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg: art history in combination with philosophy and German studies (modern German literary history)

(2017) Hybrid art strategies and their evaluability. A method-critical reflection on participatory art and the possibilities, limits, prerequisites, and consequences of its evaluation and assessment. With a foreword by Gabriele Oberreuter. http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/volltexte/2017/4948

(2016) “… and this is supposed to be art?!” On the unique characteristic of the arts in the field of participation. Report on the Open Forum and further activities of the transfer office for “participatory art” In: Gilberger, Ruth (ed.): On Participation in Art. Between Aspiration and Reality. Montag Stiftung Kunst und Gesellschaft 

(2015) On the aesthetics of the precarious. On the political and aesthetic dimension of transitional spaces with particular consideration of participatory strategies. In: Beeren, Willem-Jan, Berding, Ulrich, Kluge, Florian (eds.): Space for a Time, Temporary Interventions in Public Space. Reflections – Positions – Attitudes. Vol. 3, Beeren/Berding/Kluge Publishing

(2012) “Even as a child, I wanted to perform magic for others”. Laudation for Angie Hiesl on the occasion of her receiving the 2012 North Rhine-Westphalia Women Artists’ Prize. October 6, 2012

(2012) Between North and South. Six internationally active curators, artists, and educators comment on the task of mediation and cultural exchange on equal footing. Munich, Humboldt magazine, Goethe-Institut

(2011) El ancestralismo en la obra de Fernando de Szyszlo, en el contexto de los debates sobre el arte peruano en el siglo XX. Catalog contribution for the exhibition at the Museo de Arte, Lima, Peru. 

(2006) Border crossings in worlds in between. Why do many artists circle around the interfaces between media and genres? Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg Cultural Calendar