Beni Muhl
beni.muhl@unifr.ch
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3118-1911
- Queer Art History
- Gender and Sexuality
- Pop and Post-Pop Art
- Post-War American Art
- Appropriation Art
- Subject Theory
PhD Student SNSF
Department of Art History and Archeology
Biography
Beni Muhl (he/him) is a doctoral student funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). In his dissertation, Appropriation and Subjectivity: Rosalyn Drexler, Kathe Burkhart and the Ambivalence of Pop Art, he focuses on alternative subjectivity models and strategies of appropriation by women artists associated with mid and late-20th-century American counterculture movements. From 2022 through 2024, he was a visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He has earned his master's degree in art history and German studies at the University of Fribourg, with an exchange at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has also worked as a curatorial assistant at the Kunstmuseum Luzern (2020-2022) and as a visual arts and literature specialist at the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia (2019-2020).
Research and publications
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Publications
14 publications
metamorphosis of an exhibition / metamorphose einer ausstellung , in these, antithese, synthese – reconstructed / rekonstruiert. 1935 / 2025
Beni Muhl (2025), ISBN: 9788857253954 | Book chapterHafis et le Journal matinal: Comment déjouer la mort/Hafis and the Morning Journal: or How to Cheat Death , in Hafis: un monde à traverser
Beni Muhl (2024), ISBN: 978-2-8399-4446-5 | Book chapterWohin soll es gehen? Eine Reise entlang von Josef Herzogs Kreuzungen und Wendepunkten / And Where To? A Trip along Josef Herzog’s Intersections and Turning Points , in Josef Herzog – Untitled
Beni Muhl (2022), ISBN: 978-3-907236-39-0 | Book chapterDie Ordnung der Dinge – Parallelismus / Woher kommen Sie, Herr Holzfäller? – Provenienzforschung / Hickhack – Politische Vereinnahmung / Der Holzfäller als Karikatur , in Hodlers Holzfäller
Beni Muhl (2021), ISBN: 978-3-907291-62-7 | Book chapter