Hilde Van Gelder
Onderzoeksgroep Kunstwetenschappen
Blijde Inkomststraat 21 - bus 3313
3000 Leuven
+32 16 32 48 67
Hilde Van Gelder teaches art history since 1860, Art and Ecology, Art Criticism, and Photo Hybrids in the Faculty of Arts at KU Leuven. Presently, she is Chair of the Archaeology, Art History, and Musicology Research Unit (AKM) in the Faculty of Arts. In 2021, she published Ground Sea. Photography and the Right to Be Reborn with Leuven University Press. This two-volume book, fully available in free open access, is the outcome of a decade-long research on how photography within contemporary visual art and culture can be an operative force for both re-legitimating and imagining fundamental rights. Since then, Hilde has pursued a praxis in environmental art research, resulting in both publication and artistic outputs.
