Rebekka Ladewig

Rebekka Ladewig studied Cultural Sciences, History of Art and Philosophy at the University of Florence, Leuphana University of Lüneburg and at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She was a research associate at the Institut für Kulturwissenschaft (Institute of Cultural History and Theory) at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and in the research group »Cultural Theory and its Genealogies« of the Excellence Cluster »Topoi«. In 2012 she completed her PhD at the Institut für Kulturwissenschaft with a thesis on orientation as implicit knowledge.

She is cofounder and editor of the magazine »ilinx. Berliner Beiträge zu Kulturwissenschaft« and the book series »ilinx-Kollaborationen« at Fundus/PhiloFineArts, Hamburg. In recent years she has worked as an author and publisher of artistic publications and as an assistant lecturer, for example at the Kunstuniversität Linz (The University of Art and Design Linz) and at the MSA – Münster School of Architecture. 

Within the project »Pictograms«, she researches the arrow as a sign in the context of Cultural and Media Sciences and the history of the arrow as a sign. She analyses the semiotic career of the arrow as a sign in the modern age based on the material background of the arrow as part of the bow’s technical fabric and its practical application.

Research Focus

Theories of implicit knowledge; history of culture and knowledge of deception, history of culture and technology of space travel, epistemology of orientation, theories of perception, especially approaches to Gestalt theory, contemporary practices of art and exhibition