Ulrike Gehring

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Gehring holds the Chair of Art History at the University of Trier, focusing on interdisciplinary intersections between art, science, and media. Her work spans from 17th-century Dutch maritime painting to post-1945 American art theory, with particular emphasis on visual epistemology and media-specific analysis.

• American Art after 1945
• Image and Media Theory
• Nature-Art-Science Relationships
• 17th-Century Dutch Landscape
• Pre-Modern Nautical Knowledge

Research Themes include:

• Epistemological functions of artistic representations
• Interdisciplinary connections between art and scienceMaritime visual culture across historical periods
• Contemporary Holocaust remembrance through visual means
• Theoretical analysis of emptiness and presence in modern art

Key Projects: The Aestheticization of Emptiness (Jewish art universality), METEΩΡA (historical meteorological visualization), maris (maritime risk visualization), and TRANSMARE (maritime globalization studies). Her Light Art research culminated in the medienkunstlabor.trier exhibition space.

Academic Leadership: Vice President of University of Trier (2019-2023), Deputy Spokesperson for Research Centre for Europe (since 2024), and initiator of the 'Savoirs of the Sea' research group.