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Vivian Sky Rehberg is an art historian and critic based in [[Paris]]. She is the course director and writing tutor for the Master Fine Art at [[Piet Zwart Institute]], [[Rotterdam]].
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'''Vivian Sky Rehberg''' is a Senior Research Lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, attached to the KCW-Kenniscentrum WdKA. As an art writer, researcher, and educator, her primary areas of focus have been shaped by lifelong encounters with artists and creative practitioners alongside the interdisciplinary study of modern and contemporary art.  
  
Since 2007, she is head of the Critical Studies department at Parsons Paris School of Art + Design, where she also teaches modern and contemporary art history and theory.  Rehberg obtained her PhD in 2000 from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) with the dissertation ''The Rhetoric of Realism: Painting, Politics and Commitment in France, 1940-56''. From 2001 to 2004 she was curator of contemporary art at ARC/Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris and for the Paris Department of Cultural Affairs.  A founding editor of Journal of Visual Culture, she is a contributing editor of frieze and has published in the following contemporary art magazines/websites: ''Art Agenda, Artforum, Art in America, Art Press, e-flux magazine'', and ''Modern Painters''. Her texts frequently appear in exhibition catalogues and artist monographs, most recently on the work of Isabelle Cornaro, Roman Ondak, Koo Jeong-A, and Chantal Akerman.
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Vivian Sky Rehberg obtained her MA in Art History and Criticism from Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, New York) and her PhD in art history from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) with the dissertation ''The Rhetoric of Realism: Painting, Politics, and Commitment in France, 1940-56''. She moved to Paris in the mid-1990s, where she worked as a curator, writer, translator, and in art education before she relocated to Rotterdam in 2012. Prior to joining RASL in fall 2019, to contribute to the development of a transdisciplinary Master program, she was Course Director of the Master Fine Art at the [[Piet Zwart Institute]], where she was also a writing tutor and taught courses in modern and contemporary art history and theory. She has published widely on modern and contemporary art and was a contributing editor and freelance correspondent for ''frieze'' magazine for over a decade.  
  
She is currently editing a two-volume collection of British author Marina Warner’s writings on art for Violette Editions (London) and completing her research for a book manuscript titled ''History Decays into Images, Not into Stories'', which treats historical and political consciousness in contemporary art.
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Vivian Sky Rehberg’s current research interests include the psychology of aesthetics and aesthetic experience, aesthetic emotions and emotional labor, and how emotions are normalized, socialized, shared, inhibited, or communicated within communities of practice and among viewers-receivers-participants.
  
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She is a member of the Erasmus University Art Acquisitions Committee, the WdKA Ethics Committee, and the Working Group Research Cultuurcampus led by Codarts, Erasmus University and the Hogeschool Rotterdam. Vivian Sky Rehberg is on the advisory board of Yellow Brick, an artist-run space in Athens, and she also participates in the Word and Image Research Group at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. She has been a frequent assessor, juror, external examiner, mentor, and advisor for art academies, residencies, cultural initiatives and venues. She continues to explore writing as a practice, and is an avid cook, gardener, and walker. [https://rasl.nu/vivian-sky-rehberg/ (2024)]
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* [https://rasl.nu/vivian-sky-rehberg/ Profile on RASL]
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* [http://www.pzwart.nl/master-fine-art/staff-and-tutors/vivian-sky-rehberg-phd/ Profile on Piet Zwart Institute]
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Latest revision as of 13:54, 16 May 2024

Vivian Sky Rehberg is a Senior Research Lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, attached to the KCW-Kenniscentrum WdKA. As an art writer, researcher, and educator, her primary areas of focus have been shaped by lifelong encounters with artists and creative practitioners alongside the interdisciplinary study of modern and contemporary art.

Vivian Sky Rehberg obtained her MA in Art History and Criticism from Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, New York) and her PhD in art history from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) with the dissertation The Rhetoric of Realism: Painting, Politics, and Commitment in France, 1940-56. She moved to Paris in the mid-1990s, where she worked as a curator, writer, translator, and in art education before she relocated to Rotterdam in 2012. Prior to joining RASL in fall 2019, to contribute to the development of a transdisciplinary Master program, she was Course Director of the Master Fine Art at the Piet Zwart Institute, where she was also a writing tutor and taught courses in modern and contemporary art history and theory. She has published widely on modern and contemporary art and was a contributing editor and freelance correspondent for frieze magazine for over a decade.

Vivian Sky Rehberg’s current research interests include the psychology of aesthetics and aesthetic experience, aesthetic emotions and emotional labor, and how emotions are normalized, socialized, shared, inhibited, or communicated within communities of practice and among viewers-receivers-participants.

She is a member of the Erasmus University Art Acquisitions Committee, the WdKA Ethics Committee, and the Working Group Research Cultuurcampus led by Codarts, Erasmus University and the Hogeschool Rotterdam. Vivian Sky Rehberg is on the advisory board of Yellow Brick, an artist-run space in Athens, and she also participates in the Word and Image Research Group at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. She has been a frequent assessor, juror, external examiner, mentor, and advisor for art academies, residencies, cultural initiatives and venues. She continues to explore writing as a practice, and is an avid cook, gardener, and walker. (2024)

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