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.

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.

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.

Hannah Neufang works at the Warburg-Haus as a student assistant for the Warburg-Archiv (Warburg archive) and Archiv Hamburger Kunst (Archive of Art in Hamburg). At the University of Hamburg, she has been continuing her studies in art history since 2021 after completing a bachelor’s degree in art and visual studies and classical philology at Saarland University focusing on modern and contemporary art.