Nils Fock

Research Interests

Aesthetics, Art Theory, Critical Theory, Queer Theory, Political Ecology

Biography

2016 to 2022 studies in Aesthetics, Philosophy and Art History at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Freie Universität Berlin. During the studies tutor at the Art History Department of Freie Universität Berlin. Since 2022 doctoral researcher at the HfG Offenbach am Main. Since 2023 co-speaker of the working group Aesthetics and Media Culture at the Institute for Social Research. Since 2025 doctoral scholarship holder of the Cusanuswerk. Since 2025 doctoral researcher at the Institute for Social Research.

Publications (selection)

Fock, Nils 2025: “The failure that succeeds” On the Meaning of Death in Georges Bataille’s Theory of Art, in: Texte zur Kunst, Vol. 137, 62-75.

Fock, Nils 2024: Abjekte Natur – Rezension zur Ausstellung »territory« bei Sprüth Magers, Berlin, in Texte zur Kunst, July 26.

Abject Nature. A theory of contemporary art after Georges Bataille.

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Doctoral Researcher
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Senckenberganlage 26

60325 Frankfurt am Main

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fock@em.uni-frankfurt.de