Benjamin Fellmann is an art historian and curator. Since 2017, he is the scientific coordinator of the Warburg-Haus, responsible for scientific and cultural programmes as well as collections, archives and exhibitions. In 2016, he earned his doctorate at the universities of Hamburg and Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis as a scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) in a joint PhD that was supported by the Deutsch-Französische Hochschule/Université Franco-Allemande with a thesis on the history of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. His book Palais de Tokyo. Kunstpolitik und Ästhetik im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2019 (Palais de Tokyo. Art Politics and Aesthetics in the 20th and 21st Centuries) is the winner of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte’s 2020 Willibald Sauerländer Award for distinguished research in the history and practice of art history. In 2009/10 he was a fellow of the Carlo-Schmid-Programme at the United Nations Development Programme, Copenhagen. He studied at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, and the universities of Hamburg and Roma Tre, Rome, and holds a BA in Media and Communication Studies and Art History and an MA in Media Studies from Hamburg University, the latter with a thesis on Walter Benjamin (Durchdringung und Porosität: Walter Benjamins Neapel, Berlin: Lit 2014) (Interpenetration and Porosity: Walter Benjamin’s Naples). He also worked as a senior editor and co-publisher of the German art and culture magazine DARE. Most recently he curated the exhibitions AFTER PASOLINI – Visions of Today (together with Bettina Steinbrügge, Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv/Bulgaria, September–October 2020) and Class Relations. Phantoms of Perception (with Bettina Steinbrügge and Tobias Peper, Kunstverein in Hamburg, October 2018–January 2019). Recent publications include: Klassenverhältnisse. Phantoms of Perception (ed., with Bettina Steinbrügge; contributions by Didier Eribon, Catherine Perret, Frank Adloff, Harun Farocki, Jean-Marie Straub et al., Cologne: Koenig Books 2020); AFTER PASOLINI – Visions of Today (Plovdiv: Center for Contemporary Art, The Ancient Baths 2021, with Bettina Steinbrügge); Seismografen und Orientierungsspiegel. Bilder der Welt in kurzen Kunstgeschichten (ed., with Leena Crasemann and Yannis Hadjinicolaou, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2022). He was a fellow at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, in 2021 and in 2022, ParisXRome-Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome, and the German Center for Art History (DFK) Paris. In the academic year 2022/2023 he is invited at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne as a Visiting Professor.

Eva Landmann leitet das Büro des Warburg-Hauses. Die ausgebildete Kinderkrankenschwester und Fremdsprachenkorrespondentin arbeitet seit 1991 an der Universität Hamburg. Nach ihrer ersten Station im Fachbereich Informatik wechselte Landmann 1996 ins Büro des Präsidenten Dr. Jürgen Lüthje. Vielfältige interkulturelle Erfahrungen und längere Auslandsaufenthalte in den USA und Südamerika prädestinierten sie für ihre weitere Tätigkeit als Office Managerin in der Abteilung Internationales von 2006 bis 2011. In dieser Zeit arbeitete sie auch ein Jahr in der Akademischen Musikpflege der Universität. Seit November 2011 lenkt Eva Landmann die organisatorischen Geschicke des Warburg-Hauses, koordiniert Veranstaltungen, betreut Gäste und begleitet die Arbeit der Aby-Warburg-Stiftung.

Elif Akyüz is holding a scholarship of the Aby Warburg Foundation. After studying art history and comparative cultural studies at the University of Regensburg, she completed her master’s degree in art history at the University of Hamburg. Since October 2021, she has been a research assistant at the Department of Art History at the University of Hamburg, where she works on and teaches art history and visual culture of the 20th century to the present day. A current focus of her work, which already accompanied her studies, is Political Iconography. Her PhD project investigates phenomena of political iconoclasm since 1945.

Since autumn 2018 Leena Crasemann is research associate of the research network Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology. After her studies of art history and theatre studies in Berlin and Pisa she worked from 2008 to 2010 as research assistant of Prof. Dr. Klaus Krüger at the Collaborative Research Centre Sfb 447 Cultures of Performativity, Freie Universität Berlin and received her Phd in 2012 there. From 2012 to 2014 she was research assistant of Prof. Dr. Peter Geimer at the Collaborative Research Centre Sfb 626 Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits, also at the FU Berlin. In the winter semester 2014/15 she was a postdoc fellow at the IKKM – Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Since 2015 she was research assistant at the Department of Art History, University of Hamburg and in the winter semester 2017/18 she had an interim Professorship covering for Prof. Dr. Margit Kern. As co-editor she published Um/Ordnungen. Fotografische Menschenbilder zwischen Konstruktion und Destruktion (Munich: Fink 2010), Re-Inszenierte Fotografie (Munich: Fink 2011) and with Anne Röhl Textiles and Activism, 1990-2020 at FKW Journal. Her latest publication is the monograph Unmarkierte Sichtbarkeit? Weiße Identitäten in der zeitgenössischen künstlerischen Fotografie (Berliner Schriften zur Kunst, Munich, Paderborn: Brill Fink 2021).

Kimberly Clark is a student assistant in the DFG-financed project to digitise the Image Index of Political Iconography at the Warburg-Haus. In addition to her previous work as an assistant director in various theatre projects, she completed her bachelor’s degree in art history and educational science at the University of Hamburg with a study on visual strategies of staging femininity and difference using a female double portrait from 1779. She is currently studying art history for her Master´s degree at the University of Hamburg, where she is focusing on the visual legacy of European colonialism and its effect on today´s visual language(s).

Laura Gronius is the coordinator of the digitalization of the Image Index of Political Iconography at the Warburg-Haus. Together with colleagues from the Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte at Universität Marburg, she is in charge of the DFG-funded digital indexing of the image card collection, which will provide a resource for research beyond the location in the Warburg-Haus. Laura Gronius studied art history and modern German literature in Berlin and Zurich and has taken part in several edition and digitalization projects. Among other things, she has worked on the digital indexing of the photo and art magazine Camera Work (University of Zurich/University Library Heidelberg). After research stays at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Florence) and at Harvard University in Cambridge (USA), she is continuing her PhD project at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In her dissertation, she examines the influence of authorship and iconography on the discussion of masterpieces in the 19th century using the example of Italian Renaissance painting in Germany. Her work focuses on the history of ideas and the relationship between literature and art. Most recently, she published on the relationship between art and nature in Shakespeare’s work.

Yannis Hadjinicolaou studied Art History, South East Asian Art History, and History in Berlin and Amsterdam (Magister Artium 2010). From 2011 to 2014 he held research fellowships at the Collegium for the Advanced Study of Picture Act and Embodiment and the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory (both at Humboldt University, Berlin). In 2014 he defended his PhD thesis at the Freie Universität Berlin, entitled Denkende Körper – Formende Hände. Handeling in Kunst und Kunsttheorie der Rembrandtisten (published in 2016 by Walter de Gruyter). From July 2014 to August 2017 he was a research associate of the project Symbolic Articulation. Language and Image between Action and Scheme (Institute for Art History, Humboldt University, Berlin). During the summer semesters of 2015 and 2016, he taught at the Institute of Art History of Hamburg University. During spring semester 2017 he was a lecturer at the Institute of Art History of Basel University. Since June 2017 he is leading (together with Joris van Gastel and Markus Rath) the network Synagonism in the visual arts, funded for three years by the German research foundation (DFG). From September 2017 to October 2018 he was research fellow in the Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi. Within the research network Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg´s Legacy and the Future of Iconology he is pursuing a project on the political iconology of falconry.

Since March 2021 Jonna Künne is contributing to the DFG-financed digitisation of the Image Index of Political Iconography at the Warburg-Haus. Working on the Image Index links her interests in current political issues and researching the sociopolitical relevance of art. While studying art history (BA) at the University of Hamburg, Jonna Künne focuses on contemporary European and Chinese art; an Erasmus semester at Sapienza – University of Rome enabled her to expand this focus by introducing her to the ancient visual roots of today’s European imagery.

Lukas Schepers is studying art history (MA) at the University of Hamburg and contributes to the DFG-financed digitisation of the Image Index of Political Iconography at the Warburg-Haus. From 2019 to 2021 he worked as research assistant at the Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, where he published several articles in exhibition catalogues. Before this he studied journalism at the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences in Gelsenkirchen (BA), and digital communication at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg (MA). During this time he worked as freelance journalist on diverse matters. His main research interests are the social history of art and the political function of images from art, press and everyday life across different periods.

Mina Wagener was a fellow of the Aby Warburg Foundation until September 2022 and a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy of Universität Hamburg from April 2019 to September 2020. She studied philosophy and German language and literature at Universität Hamburg. With a focus on Helmuth Plessner and Ernst Cassirer, her work centers on philosophical anthropology and cultural philosophy; another continuing focus of her interest is Immanuel Kant’s philosophy. In her PhD project she examines the question of Helmuth Plessner’s implicit ethics.

Fanny Weidehaas manages the Warburg-Archiv (Warburg-Archive, including the archives of William S. Heckscher) and Archiv Hamburger Kunst (Archive of Art in Hamburg) at the Warburg-Haus. Having successfully graduated in ethnology and philosophy with a thesis on the history of the reception of a sculptural group from Micronesia, she began her studies of art history in 2015. Her academic focus is on the intersection of these disciplines. She is a fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and holds a Deutschland-Stipendium scholarship supported by the Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung since 2017.