Dan Karlholm

Södertörn University

July–August 2012

Dan Karlholm is Professor and Head of Art History at Södertörn University in Stockholm. His work on historiography includes Handböckernas konsthistoria(1996) and Art of Illusion: The Representation of Art History in Nineteenth-Century Germany and Beyond (2004). His current research interests revolve around the theory and history of contemporary art, not least its multiple relations to non-contemporary and historical art. He is also the editor of Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History. At the Clark, he will work on “Art and the Passing Present: Contemporary Art in Time,” which is part of the interdisciplinary research program “Time, Memory, and Representation” (www.histcon.se).