Speaking

Francis Bacon: Blind Spots. Wie Besitzverhältnisse die Analyse, Sichtbarkeit und Wahrnehmung eines Künstleroeuvres bestimmen, lecture at workshop of MWW-research group ‘Provenance’, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (online), 17 November 2022.

Im Spiegel der Fotografie: Francis Bacons fotografische Vorlagen, lecture to mark the opening of the Studiolo-exhibition “Francis Bacon – In the Mirror of Photography”, Museum for Contemporary Art Siegen, 20 October 2022.

Das Goethehaus ist ziemlich mitgenommen‘ – Lee Millers Blick auf Buchenwald und Weimar, presentation at members’ meeting Forum Art History of Britain and Ireland (FAHBI), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (online), 15 October 2022.

Francis Bacon – In the Mirror of Photography, Public Lecture 24 July, and Coffee Conversation 27 July 2022, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane.

Digitales kollaboratives Arbeiten im Forschungsverbund Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel, with Christiane Müller. Conference: KOOP-LITERA Deutschland: 9. Arbeitstagung der deutschen Literaturarchive und verwandter Institutionen, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt, 22-24 June 2022.

Video talk Francis Bacon – In The Mirror of Photography. Collecting, Preparatory Practice and Painting, produced by The Estate of Francis Bacon, launched on YouTube, 1 June 2022.

‘Das Goethehaus ist ziemlich mitgenommen‘ – Lee Millers Blick auf Buchenwald und Weimar, Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, Weimar, 25 August 2021.

Augmented Reality in Fine Art, presentation at meeting of MWW-research group ‘Space’, Klassik Stiftung Weimar (online), 24 June 2021.

On the Trail of Francis Bacon – Painting from Photography, presentation at members’ meeting Forum Art History of Britain and Ireland (FAHBI), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (online), 19 March 2021.

Kill your Darlings – Francis Bacon’s Portraits from Photographs, public lecture: FiSH Neighbourhood Care, Barnes Green Centre, London, 11 December 2018.

Dissecting 7 Reece Mews – Connoisseurship and the discourse on Francis Bacon’s relationship to photography, Conference: Connoisseurship in Contemporary Art Research, Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, University of Helsinki and University of Turku, 29 – 30 November 2018.

Web of Looks – The Gaze in Art and All Too Human, invited speaker. Talk and panel discussion: What Makes Us Human: Conversations on Art and Philosophy, The Gaze. Tate Britain, 12 May 2018. On the occasion of the exhibition All Too Human Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life, Tate Britain, 28 February – 27 August 2018.

Kill your Darlings – Francis Bacons Porträts nach fotografischen Vorlagen (Francis Bacon’s portraits from photographic sources), public lecture: Clemens Sels Museum Neuss, 18 February 2018, on the occasion of the exhibition Wunsch & Wirklichkeit Der Einfluss der Fotografie auf das Porträt (Desire & Reality: The Influence of Photography on Portraiture’).

Response to film “Deakin: Double Exposures, Exchanges with Francis Bacon”, invited speaker. Research seminar: Multiple Meanings – photographic double exposures in the work of John Deakin, Francis Bacon and Daniella Zalcman. Paul Mellon Centre, London, 15 June 2016.

“Tearing One Another Apart”: Denis Wirth-Miller and Francis Bacon, Conference: The Not-So-Silent Partner: Artistic Practice and Collaboration, Part I, 103rd annual CAA conference, New York, 13 February 2015.

Aesthetics of Transparency – Francis Bacon and X-ray photography, Conference: ‘in:flux 1845-1845 A Century in Motion’, University of Birmingham, 27 June 2013.

The Image Bank – On Photography and Print Media in Francis Bacon’s Studio, Symposium: ‘Francis Bacon’s Library and its Role in his Art’, Trinity College Dublin & Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 20 October 2012.

Francis Bacon and David Cronenberg. The Inner Beauty and Other Aspects, Public lecture & screening of David Cronenberg’s The Fly, 1986. Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 25 October 2009, on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Francis Bacon A Terrible Beauty’. More info on the exhibition.