Grischka Petri (Bonn): Cultural Monopoly and Alternative Communities

Due to the current situation the lecture was part of the digital Fellow Meeting of the Käte Hamburger Center.

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Curriculum Vitae

Grischki Petri studied Applied Cultural Science at the University of Lüneburg as well as Art History, Philosophy and Law at the University of Bonn. He would continue to earn two doctoral degrees from the University of Bonn: one in law in 2003, with a thesis on doping sanctions, and the other in philosophy in 2006, with a dissertation about the career of James McNeill Whistler and the contemporary art market. After passing the first state examination in law in 1998, he worked until 2002 as a researcher at the Department for Private Law, Labor Law, and Civil Procedure at the University of Bonn. He then completed a legal clerkship and passed the second state examination in law in 2005. Following a period as a researcher at the Department for Civil Procedure at the University of Bonn, Grischka Petri acted as a part-time postdoctoral research associate. During this time, he was tasked with compiling the catalogue raisonné of Whistler’s etchings from 2006 to 2011 and the catalogue raisonné of his paintings from 2011 to 2017. Between 2007 and 2020, he held various positions at the Art History Institute at the University of Bonn, serving most recently as a non-tenured academic councilor. In 2017, he completed his habilitation in Art History with a thesis on “Artist Ethos and Control Regime. An Art History of the Copyright Law”. Since earning his postdoctoral degree, he has been Junior Professor for Art Markets and Art History at the University of Cologne on an interim basis. Furthermore, he was a trustee of the Association of Art Historians in London from 2011 to 2017. From 2012 to 2014, and again from 2017 until present, he has been an honorary research fellow at the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow.

After a first successful research stay at the Käte Hamburg Center for “Law as Culture” from October 2014 to March 2015 with a project focusing on “Cultures of Copyright”, Grischka Petri has embarked on a second fellowship at the Center as of April 2020.