Katrin Luchsinger, PhD, studied art history and psychology in Zurich. She was a professor for modern art history at Zurich University of the Arts until 2019. Her research work focuses on the interaction between art, psychology/psychiatry around 1900, early modernism, material cultures, diversity and inclusion. Recently she turns towards history of photography and contemporary art. In 2022 she was awarded with the scientific award of the Dr. Margrit Egnér-Foundation.
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10.6. to 24.6. The Yenish and Sinti People, exhibition and events at Museum Thalwil. An event on the occasion of the Culture Days Thalwil.
7.3., SRF 2, Kulturtalk: Das kreative Erbe der Schweizer Psychiatrie, 09 00. Katharina Bochsler in conversation with Katrin Luchsinger
Katrin Luchsinger was awarded the scholarly prize of the Dr. Margrit Egnér-Foundation.
Kunstmuseum Thurgau
Katrin Luchsinger, Stefanie Hoch (eds.),
BEHIND WALLS
Photography in Psychiatric Institutions from 1880 to 1935
Zurich, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2022, d/e
With articles by Urs Germann, Stefanie Hoch, Markus Landert, Katrin Luchsinger, Sabine Münzenmaier, Martina Wernli
Psychiatrie Museum Bern
26. Mai 2023 bis April 2024
Katrin Luchsinger, René Specht (eds.), Karl Heinrich Fehrlin: «Die Schizophrenie» (Erstausgabe Selbstverlag, Winterthur 1912) – Kommentierte und ins Schriftdeutsche übersetzte Neuausgabe, Zürich, Chronos Verlag, 2022
Luchsinger Katrin (ed.), Moritz Tramer. Technisches Schaffen Geisteskranker (Erstausgabe 1926) – Kommentierte Neuausgabe, Zürich, Chronos Verlag