Irène Unholz
irene.unholz@unifr.ch
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7243-315X
Histoire de l'art moderne et contemporain
- Stratégies artistiques et discursives depuis les années 1970
- Pratiques collectives et collaboratives
- Critique d’art, expositions et institutions
- Art, écologie et climat
- Reproduction, simulation et modélisation des systèmes sociaux, économiques et technologiques
Doctorant·e FNS
Département d'histoire de l'art et d'archéologie
Biographie
Irène Unholz est doctorante à la chaire d’histoire de l’art moderne et contemporain de l’Université de Fribourg (Suisse). Dans le cadre du projet FNS Real Abstractions: Reconsidering Realism’s Role for the Present, elle mène des recherches sur les processus de simulation et de reproduction dans l’art contemporain, avec un intérêt particulier pour la manière dont les artistes modélisent, reproduisent et négocient leur rapport avec des systèmes sociopolitiques, économiques et technologiques.
Elle a étudié l’histoire de l’art, les sciences de la communication et des médias ainsi que la psychologie à l’Université de Fribourg et à la Freie Universität Berlin. Parallèlement à ses travaux universitaires, elle écrit comme journaliste culturelle pour des publications telles que Kunstbulletin, Republik et WOZ, où elle aborde des questions sociales, écologiques et institutionnelles dans le champ de l’art. Elle est membre de la section suisse de l’AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art).
Recherche et publications
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Publications
55 publications
Reproducing, Simulating, Acting? On Artists and Systems , dans Training Creative Acts and Action: An edited publication of workshop documents
Irène Unholz (2026) | Chapitre de livrePatricia Bucher – a closed open door (Einleitung) , dans Patricia Bucher – a closed open door (Ausstellungskatalog Galerie Sam Scherrer)
Irène Unholz (2025) | Chapitre de livreExpanded Cinema , dans Discoteca Analitica. Reader (edited by Nicolas Brulhart & Julia Gelshorn)
Irène Unholz, Nicolas Brulhart, Julia Gelshorn, Balthazar Lovay (2019) | Chapitre de livreAndrea Muheim
Irène Unholz (SIKART Lexikon zur Kunst in der Schweiz, 2022) | Chapitre de livre -
Projets de recherche
Journalistic Role Performance around the Globe: Switzerland
Statut: TerminéDébut 01.11.2015 Fin 31.12.2018 Financement FNS Voir la fiche du projet The aim of our project is to explore the role performance of journalists. Journalists have ideals in form of role conceptions: They see themselves, for instance, either as neutral disseminators, investigators, analysts, promoters or entertainers. However, they are likely to make compromises in their everyday work due to personal, financial, political or other restrictions. As a consequence of these restrictions, role conceptions do not necessarily unfold in media content. Thus, in order to investigate role performance, we connect journalists’ output back to their role conceptions. Therefore a content analysis of newspapers will be performed, based on operationalization models recently developed in journalism studies, in order to reveal references to particular role conceptions in news content. At the same time a standardized online survey will be conducted among the authors of the analyzed articles in order to investigate their own conceptions of their professional role and of their level of autonomy. This combination of methods will allow comparisons between the role conceptions as seen by the journalists and the conceptions which are traceable in their articles, i.e. in their role performance. The project will concentrate on journalists and their work in Switzerland but is part of a bigger international project (see http://www.journalisticperformance.org). Researchers in 27 other countries around the globe are in the process of conducting equivalent analyses of their national print media, using the same codebook and questionnaire. Findings from the Swiss study will thus be discussed along with the results from the other participating countries in publications dealing with the international comparison of journalistic role performance. The special situation of Switzerland as a multilingual and multicultural country offers the opportunity for more in-depth analyses about common grounds and differences of journalistic role performance in different cultural entities within the same political system.