Kathrin Busch studied philosophy, art history and literature in Hamburg and received her doctoral degree at the Ruhr University Bochum. After working in the field of cultural research as a scientific associate at the Lüneburg University and at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart, Busch has been professor at Berlin University of the Arts since 2010. In her numerous publications, she often links up art, design and philosophy. Busch deals with theories of artistic research, which is seen as a deviant form of knowledge production in comparison to other research theories and philosophical approaches state that artistic research has its very own way of cognition. Beyond cultural theories, Busch puts her focus on today’s philosophy, aesthetics and theories about passiveness.
During a lecture on the exhibition “VOL. 19” of Klaus Scherübel, Kathrin Busch will refer her theoretical work, amongst others around the notion of passivity, to the artistic production on view.