Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (HfG Karlsruhe), Germany

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​Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), Switzerland

Lecturer at Université Populaire Européenne

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• Studied Fine Arts and Art History

• Specialized in the art of illumination (Enluminure)

• Official member of Ateliers d’Art de France and FREMAA (Fédération des Métiers d’Art d’Alsace).

• Author of Techniques de l’enluminure (published in 2007).

• Lecturer at Université Populaire Européenne, promoting traditional artistic techniques.

• Exhibited at prestigious venues such as Parc Expo Strasbourg and Cité des Métiers d’Art d’Andlau.

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• 2023｜Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, University of Strasbourg, teaching Methodology of Art Analysis and Representation of Space and Volume

• 2015–2018｜Master’s degree in Theory and Research in Fine Arts (Master Théorie & Recherche Arts Plastiques, Université de Strasbourg)

• 2012–2015｜Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts (Licence Arts Visuels, Université de Strasbourg)

• 2015｜Contributed to the Russian-French translation of theoretical texts for the contemporary art exhibition Radom Memory Machine at Appolonia, Strasbourg

• 2007–2009｜Studied Fine and Decorative Arts at the Faculty of Arts and Pedagogy, University of Rivne, Ukraine

• 2017–Present｜PhD candidate in Visual Arts, Université de Strasbourg
  (Research focus: Light imprint and the notion of truth in the digital age)

• 2015–2017｜Master's degree in Critique-Essais, Contemporary Art Writings, Université de Strasbourg

• 2012–2015｜Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts, Université de Strasbourg

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Experience

• Lecturer in Visual Arts at Université de Strasbourg since 2018, teaching Contemporary Art History, Photography, and Art Theory.

• Presented research in photography and contemporary art at various conferences, including:

  • Poussière et création (Université Paris 8)

  • De l’archaïque au numérique (Université de Strasbourg)

  • Ecologies visuelles (Université de Strasbourg)

• Organized and coordinated doctoral study days and academic events such as:

  • La thèse en arts: enjeux, méthodologies et spécificités (2023)

  • Culture visuelle du spectre (2023)

• Doctoral representative at UR 3402 ACCRA Research Group, Université de Strasbourg.

• 2021｜Presented a paper (in English) at the Graduate Student Symposium in Art History and Visual Culture, National Central University, Taiwan

• 2022–Present｜Writer for the "After the List" Artist Story Project and the Taifuten Database at the Chen Cheng-po Cultural Foundation

• 2017｜Master of Music, Violin Performance, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University (background information)

• 2017｜Bachelor of Arts in Art History, magna cum laude, University of Southern California

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Paper Presentation

• "The Mystery in What My Eyes Have Seen" (presented in English), Art History and Visual Culture Graduate Student Symposium, National Central University, Taoyuan, November 13, 2021

Research Interests

• Modern and contemporary art

• Comparative study of visual and time-based arts

• Intersection of Eastern and Western art history

• Previously worked at Yiri Arts and NUNU FINE ART

• Boris Kochan (b. 1962) designs enterprises, organizations, relationships, and contexts—acting as an entrepreneur, designer, author, curator, moderator, and consultant. Following his training in layout and typography at Grafikstudio Sternagel, he initially gained journalistic experience, including work at an external editorial office of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He subsequently acquired technical expertise in typesetting at Satzstudio Lothar Wolf, as well as in lithography and screen printing at the Jürgen Höflich printing workshop.

• In 1981, while still a student, he co-founded a graphic and copywriting bureau with friends, which he expanded two years later to include typesetting and lithography. This was followed by the addition of Zelig-Druck in 1989 and the interactive unit Peppermind in 1995. Today, with approximately 40 specialists in Munich and an office in Berlin, Kochan & Partner is a leading branding and design agency, ranking among the 15 largest owner-managed CD/CI agencies in Germany. At the turn of 2022/2023, Boris Kochan stepped down from the executive management but remains connected to the company as the majority shareholder and Senior Advisor.