Kristian Handberg

Kristian Handberg

Assistant Professor


  1. 2024
  2. Published

    Forskningsbegrebet står alt for svagt i reformrapport

    Christensen, Hans Dam, Handberg, Kristian, Jensen, J. F., Knudsen, L. V., Hejlskov Larsen, A., Mortensen, C. H., Sørensen, A. S., Vestergaard, V. & Falch Yates, M., 12 Jan 2024, In: Kulturmonitor.

    Research output: Contribution to journalContribution to newspaper - Comment/debateCommunication

  3. Published

    Multiple modernisms - curating the post-war for the present

    Handberg, Kristian, 2024, Curating Transcultural Spaces: Perspectives on Postcolonial Conflicts in Museum Culture. Hegenbart, S. (ed.). Bloomsbury Academic, p. 73-90 14 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  4. 2023
  5. Published

    Introduction: Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum

    Vest Hansen, Malene & Handberg, Kristian, 24 Feb 2023, Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum. Routledge, p. 1-7

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum

    Vest Hansen, Malene (ed.) & Handberg, Kristian (ed.), 2023, Routledge. 276 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologyResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Mapping Exhibition Histories of the Contemporary

    Vest Hansen, Malene & Handberg, Kristian, 2023, Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum. Vest Hansen, M. & Handberg, K. (eds.). Routledge, p. 167-171 5 p. (Routledge research in art museums and exhibitions).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Moving the Museum towards the Contemporary? Art in Motion (1961) as Testing Ground for the 'New Museum' in Three Versions

    Handberg, Kristian, 2023, Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum. Handberg, K. & Vest Hansen, M. (eds.). Routledge, p. 200-213 14 p. (Routledge research in art museums and exhibitions).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    New approaches to art and life in the Polish People’s Republic: Henryk Stażewski at Muzeum Sztuki

    Handberg, Kristian, 2023, In: Artmargins.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Politics of Curating the Contemporary-Modern in the Art Museum

    Vest Hansen, Malene & Handberg, Kristian, 2023, Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum. Hansen, M. V. & Handberg, K. (eds.). Routledge, p. 77-81 5 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    The Curatorial Now: Performing the Museum

    Vest Hansen, Malene & Handberg, Kristian, 2023, Curating the Contemporary in the art museum. Routledge, p. 9-12

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  12. 2022
  13. Published

    Exhibiting Across the Iron Curtain: The Forgotten Trail of Danish Artists Exhibiting in the Context of State Socialism, ca. 1955–1985

    Handberg, Kristian & Karpova, Y., Oct 2022, In: Artl@s Bulletin. 11, 2, p. 133-139 7 p., 11.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  14. Published
  15. Published

    Med S-toget fra Sydhavn Station på sporet af kulturhuse og nye museer

    Handberg, Kristian, 5 Aug 2022, Hvis tiden er vigtig. 10 år med kunst på en S-togsstation. København: Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station, p. 26-38 12 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  16. Published

    Museumsbaseret forskning i kunsthistoriefaget i dag - en deltagelsesbaseret reflektion

    Handberg, Kristian & Kjærboe, R., Jun 2022, In: Periskop. 27, p. 162-167

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  17. Published

    Temaintroduktion: Kunsthistoriefaget i dag. Samtidskunst, selvransagelse og åbne faggrænser

    Handberg, Kristian, Busk-Jepsen, K. B. & Kjær, Michael, Jun 2022, In: Periskop. 27, p. 6-13 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Venedig Biennalen 1962 - med kurs mod det internationale

    Handberg, Kristian, Apr 2022, Henning og Heerup International. Korshøj, L. & Lave Nielsen, A. (eds.). Carl-Henning Pedersen og Else Alfelts Museum, p. 16-29 14 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterCommunication

  19. Published

    Harald Giersing i modernismens udstillinger: Mod nye udstillingsfællesskaber i Danmark, Norden og Europa mellem 1910 og 1940

    Handberg, Kristian, Mar 2022, Harald Giersing. Modernismens fortællinger. Randers Kunstmuseums Forlag, p. 140-163 23 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Exhibiting across the Iron Curtain: Ny forskning i danske kunstneres udstillinger på tværs af Jerntæppet under den kolde krig

    Handberg, Kristian, 2022, In: Mosaikk - tidsskrift for Institut for Kunst- og Kulturvidenskab. 16, p. 18-23 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleCommunication

  21. Published

    Kunsthistoriefaget i dag

    Kjær, Michael (ed.), Handberg, Kristian (ed.) & Busk-Jepsen, K. B. (ed.), 2022, Foreningen PERISKOP – Forum for kunsthistorisk debat.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologyResearchpeer-review

  22. 2021
  23. Published

    Cosmonaut Paintings as Contemporary Art: The Soviet Union at the Venice Biennale

    Handberg, Kristian, 25 Mar 2021, New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era: Multiple Modernisms. Handberg, K. & Frigeri, F. (eds.). Routledge, p. 220-231 11 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    Introduction: Toward a New Understanding og Globalism in Postwar Art

    Handberg, Kristian & Frigeri, F., 25 Mar 2021, New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era: Multiple Modernisms. Handberg, K. & Frigeri, F. (eds.). Routledge, p. 1-11 12 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    Danmark ved Venedigbiennalen 1940-1960: Den nationale vej mod international udstillingssucces

    Handberg, Kristian, 15 Feb 2021, In: Perspective. 33 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  26. Published

    Retro mellem det kuratoriske og det kommercielle: Fuglen i Oslo og VEB Orange i Berlin

    Handberg, Kristian, 25 Jan 2021, Det historiske blik. Kallenbach, U., Kluge, S. & Vangshardt, R. (eds.). Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 178-191 14 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  27. Published

    New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era: Multiple Modernisms

    Handberg, Kristian (ed.) & Frigeri, F. (ed.), 2021, Routledge. 268 p. (Studies in Art Historiography).

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologyResearchpeer-review

  28. 2020
  29. Published

    Vitalitá nell’arte: An Entry into the Trans-European Birth of the Contemporary Art Exhibition?

    Handberg, Kristian, 4 May 2020, In: Konsthistorisk Tidskrift. 89, 1, p. 2-18

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  30. 2019
  31. Published

    'documenta' i dansk dokumentation: En analyse af receptionen af 'documenta' i dansk kunstkritik, 1955-1972

    Handberg, Kristian, May 2019, In: Periskop - forum for kunsthistorisk debat. 21, p. 52-69 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  32. Published

    Conquering the present in the Long Sixties: The curatorial birth of contemporary art

    Handberg, Kristian, 26 Apr 2019, Aarhus: Antipyrine. 144 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearch

  33. Published

    Multiple modernisms: Curating the postwar era for the present

    Handberg, Kristian, Apr 2019, Curatorial Challenges: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Curating. Folke Henningsen, A., Vest Hansen, M. & Gregersen, A. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 177-191 15 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  34. 2018
  35. Published

    Alter-canons and alter-gardes – formations and re-formations of art historical canons in contemporary exhibitions: the case of Latin American and Eastern European art

    Oesterreich, M. & Handberg, Kristian, 1 Dec 2018, In: Journal of Art Historiography. 19, 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  36. Published

    In the Labyrinth of the Contemporary Condition: The Labyrinthine as Curatorial Topos of Postwar Modern in the German Art World Between 1945 and 1968

    Handberg, Kristian, 30 Nov 2018, In: Stedelijk Studies. 7, 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  37. Published

    Pejlinger 66: Louisianas pejling af samtiden og 1960'erne

    Handberg, Kristian, 26 Oct 2018, In: Periskop - forum for kunsthistorisk debat. 2018, 20, p. 72-89 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  38. Published

    Udstillingen som forskningsobjekt: Skandinaviske Exhibition Histories

    Gregersen, A., Handberg, Kristian & Kjær, Michael, 2018, In: Periskop. 2018, 20, p. 5-11 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalEditorialResearch

  39. 2017
  40. Published

    The Shock of the Contemporary: documenta II and the Louisiana Museum

    Handberg, Kristian, 9 Jun 2017, In: OnCurating. 33, p. 34-43 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  41. Published

    Lundstrøm igen: Nostalgien omkring det klassisk moderne i dag

    Handberg, Kristian, 6 Apr 2017, Vilhelm Lundstrøm og den gode smag = Vilhelm Lundstrøm - the epitome of good taste. Egemose, E., Ørskou, G. & Nymark Zachariassen, C. (eds.). Odense: BRANDTS, p. 170-177 8 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  42. Published

    Lundstrøm once more: Today's nostalgia for classical modernism

    Handberg, Kristian, 6 Apr 2017, Vilhelm Lundstrøm og den gode smag = Vilhelm Lundstrøm - the epitome of good taste. Odense: BRANDTS, p. 274-279 6 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  43. 2016
  44. Published

    Colors to be lived in: The life and times of Denmark's colorful concretist Ib Geertsen

    Handberg, Kristian, 22 Dec 2016, Ib Geertsen. Bremen & London: GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen & Koenig Books, London, p. 46-57 12 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterCommunication

  45. Published

    In Farben Leben: Das Leben und Wirken von Ib Geertsen, Dänemarks farbenfrohen Konkreten

    Handberg, Kristian, 22 Dec 2016, Ib Geertsen. Bremen & London: GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen & Koenig Books, London, p. 89-95

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterCommunication

  46. Published

    Kunst som kollektiv: Poul Gernes som bygmester for 1960’ernes forening af kunst og liv

    Handberg, Kristian, 2 Jun 2016, Poul Gernes: Jeg kan ikke alene - vil du være med?. Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, p. 65-70 6 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterCommunication

  47. Published

    The world goes modern : new globalized framings of the postwar era in the contemporary exhibitions After Year Zero and The World Goes Pop

    Handberg, Kristian, 29 Apr 2016, In: Journal of Aesthetics and Culture. 8, 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  48. Published

    Leonard Rickhard: Menneskeformede landskaber og modelbygningens mennesker

    Handberg, Kristian, 2016, Leonard Rickhard: Mellem krig og fred. Kunstmuseet AROS, p. 10-17 8 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterCommunication

  49. 2015
  50. Published

    No time like the past? On the new role of vintage and retro in the magazines Scandinavian Retro and Retro Gamer

    Handberg, Kristian, 5 Dec 2015, In: NECSUS. Autumn 2015

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  51. Published
  52. Published

    Digitale retro-museer: Musealisering og medialisering af den nære fortid i web-baseret retro

    Handberg, Kristian, 2015, Cybermuseologi: Kunst, museer og formidling i et digitalt perspektiv. Hejlskov Larsen, A., Gade, R. & Wang Hansen, A. (eds.). Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 278-293 15 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  53. Published

    Montreal Modern: Retro Culture and the Modern Past in Montreal

    Handberg, Kristian, 2015, In: Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research. 7, 1, p. 67-89 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  54. 2014
  55. Published

    There is no time like the past: Retro between memory and materiality in contemporary culture

    Handberg, Kristian, Aug 2014, Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet. 352 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportPh.D. thesisResearch

  56. Published

    Book Review: Retro Style: Class, Gender and Design in the Home, by Sarah Elsie Baker

    Handberg, Kristian, 1 Mar 2014, In: Design and Culture. 6, 1, p. 131-133

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  57. Published

    Populuxe Pop: Retroficeringen af 1950’erne i albumcovere

    Handberg, Kristian, Jan 2014, In: Ekfrase Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur. 4, 2/2013, p. 94-109 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  58. Published

    Ingemann, Bruno: Present on Site: Transforming Exhibitions and Museums

    Handberg, Kristian, 2014, In: Nordisk Museologi. 2014, 2, p. 153-155 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  59. 2012
  60. Published

    Da Tomorrowland blev til Yesterland: Det nære fortidsboom som erindringskultur i samtiden

    Handberg, Kristian, Aug 2012, In: Passepartout. 33, p. 86-100 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  61. Published

    Mellem dokumentation og oplevelse: Museumskulturen omkring DDR i Tyskland

    Handberg, Kristian, 2012, In: Danske Museer. 1, 2012, p. 23-26 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleCommunication

  62. 2011
  63. Published

    Style Wars: Med postmodernismen på museum

    Handberg, Kristian, 2011, In: Danske Museer. 6, 2011, p. 20-23 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleCommunication

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