I am an intellectual historian and art historian, theorist and cultural producer. My research focuses on modern and contemporary art, as well as aesthetic theory from 1700 to the present. I am particularly interested in the "politics of knowledge" and art's relation to labor, value, science, and race.
I am also a co-director of Centre for Research in Artistic Practice under Contemporary Conditions.
Alongside my employment at the university, I also teach at Det Jyske Kunstakademi and am a member of the extradisciplinary collective Organ for the Autonomous Sciences, whose activities are manifested in texts, performances and exhibitions. Last but not least, I run the exhibition space Æsken in Aarhus C in collaboration with friends.
Current research
In November 2024, I started a new research project in collaboration with Museum Jorn supported by the New Carlsberg Foundation. It is titled “Who does art belong to? On the collective, the common and the popular in Jorn and his context”. In this context, I am writing a monograph with Jørn Erslev Andersen tentatively titled Kontraværdi: Kunstnerisk tænkning efter Jorn (Countervalue: Artistic Thinkning after Jorn). In the Spring of 2027, I will curate an exhibition on the communist art historian and art pedagogue Rudolf Broby-Johansen at the museum.
I am also working on finalizing a book manuscript (based on my PhD thesis) on the historical roots of the contemporary phenomenon of 'artistic research' in the historical avant-garde movements. It will be published by Minor Composition in 2026.
I have also written a longer afterword to the new Danish translation of Theodor W. Adorno's Aesthetic Theory. It was published in November 2024.
The anti-capitalist handbook En anden økologi, edited together with Kristoffer Balslev Willert, was published by Antipyrine in March 2025.
In October 2025, together with Gry Lind Merrild Hansen, I organized the Annual Art History Seminar on the theme of “(Neo)colonialism, Race, and Global Contexts.”
Together with Dominique Routhier and Louis Hartnoll, I edited a special issue of NJA on "Marxist Aesthetics", published in December 2025.
In the Fall of 2024, I completed the research project A Nameless Science: Art, Expertise, and Infrastructure, funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Here I investigated how a number of artists in recent decades have renegotiated their critical competencies and literacy in the encounter with knowledge institutions such as the laboratory, the courtroom, the university and the hospital, and how such renegotiations reflect a more general institutional, social and epistemological crisis in the illiberal society of late capitalism. In addition to a number of articles (already published or forthcoming), I am working on a long-term book project that summarizes this work. A part of the project also led to the curatorial program series Experts of the Undercommons in Kunsthal Aarhus during 2023.
Supervision
I supervise students in the following areas
