Within the programme of the subject History of Modern Art and Design of the Bachelor of Design, Andrea Pérez Fernández, PhD in Philosophy, will give two lectures that will take place on Friday 8 November in the auditorium of Eina Sentmenat from 12h to 13h and from 15h to 16h respectively.
Andrea Pérez Fernández will present part of her research on the German visual artist and photographer Hannah Höch and will introduce her research process for the publication of the book Dos Mujeres con Gato: Escritos sobre las artes de Hananh Höch y Lu Märten (Tres Germanes, 2023), which the students of this subject, led by Elena Castro and Lara García Díaz, have been working on.
Andrea Pérez Fernández holds a PhD in Philosophy with a thesis on Hannah Höch and the relationship between art and politics during the Weimar Republic. She is a member of the Philosophy and Gender Seminar and the Rosa Luxemburg working group. She has recently co-translated and co-edited the book Dos mujeres con gato: escritos sobre las artes de Hannah Höch y Lu Märten with Isabel García Adánez.
Pérez holds a degree in Journalism with a minor in Humanities (UPF, 2017) and a master's degree in Citizenship and Human Rights: Ethics and Politics (UB, 2018). She has carried out research stays at the Freie Universität Berlin (2021) and at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Loughborough University (2022). She is also interested in contemporary women's philosophical thought, in particular the work of Simone Weil and Rosa Luxembourg.
Recent publications include: ‘From Compassion to Distance: Hannah Höch's Mother’ (European Journal of Women's Studies, vol 29, number 1, 2022) and ‘La crítica de Simone Weil a Marx: un referente para el pensamiento ecosocialista’ with Pau Matheu (Isegoría, number 66, 2022).
Cover image.: Hannah Höch, Kleine Sonne (Little Sun), 1969, Collage, 16.3 × 24.2 cm, Landesbank Berlin AG
