Oona Lochner M.A.

Zur Person

Oona Lochner has been a research associate at the Department of Art History at Georg August University since 2023. Her research and teaching focus on modern, post-modern and contemporary art as well as art theory, art historiography and feminist theories. In her dissertation, she examines the writing of three US-American art critics around 1970 as a practice of feminist criticism. To this end, she spent research periods in New York, Washington D.C. and Pittsburgh. From 2016 to 2022, Oona Lochner was a PhD fellow of the DFG Research Training Group Cultures of Critique and a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy and Art Studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Since 2020 she has been part of the DFG research network Anderes Wissen in künstlerischer Forschung und ästhetischer Theorie. Between 2020 and 2021 she was a lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts. With Isabel Mehl (FU Berlin), Oona Lochner founded the collaborative From Where I Stand: Feminist Art/Writing. Subjectivities, Genealogies and Critique in 2016. Using writing workshops, collaborative text and lecture projects, it addresses the current conditions of feminist writing about art. From 2011 to 2013, Oona Lochner was editor, eventually editor-in-chief of the magazine Texte zur Kunst. She studied art history and cultural studies at the University of Vienna, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the University of Münster and the Universidad de Zaragoza.