Elise Kleitz
Born in 1994; Bachelor studies in Architecture at École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Strasbourg and Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (2012–2015); Master of Arts in World Heritage Studies at Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus (2016–2019); academic exchange within the Master of Science in Urban Studies at Université du Québec à Montréal (2017); Master thesis: “Transmitting traumatic memory to future generations in the post-conflict urban landscape: the critical task of architecture”; professional experience at UNESCO’s Culture Sector in Paris (2018-2019); since April 2020 Doctoral Researcher at the Chair of Art History, Faculty of Architecture (BTU) and member of the DFG Research Training Group 1913; scholarship recipient for emerging female scientists of BTU (2022/2024); member of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) and the Memory Studies Association (MSA).
Research focus: monumentality; contemporary art; architecture; critical heritage studies; collective memory; destruction; discard studies
Research Project:
Eternal or Obsolete? Artistic Narrations of Undesired Monuments
Publications:
Kleitz, Elise. 2025. “Beyond eternal stones: on art and ephemeral monuments.” In Contested Monuments, edited by Sophia Labadi and Tokie Brown. London: Routledge. (forthcoming)
Kleitz, Elise. 2023. “(Un)wanted Monument: on art, memory and destruction”. In: Heritages: past and present – built and social. AMPS Research.
Kleitz, Elise. 2019. “Transmitting traumatic memory to future generations in the post-conflict urban landscape: the critical task of architecture”. Master Thesis, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus-Senftenberg.
Fontes, Ana Catarina. Gajić, Gordana. Kleitz, Elise. 2019. “Urban Regeneration Through Arts: Petrovaradin’s Creative Spaces.” In:Dossier Petrovaradin – Managing Historic Urban Landscapes, by Visnja Kisić, Goran Tomka, Loes Veldpaus. Novi Sad: Europa Nostra Serbia.
Kleitz, Elise. Orlovska, Vira. 2017. The ‘rurban’ experience: Gartenstadt Falkenberg. Cottbus: Brandenburg University of Technology, Faculty VI.
Presentations:
7th Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies “Custodianship”, National University of Galway, Ireland, 3–6 June 2024
Title of presentation: “Art as ephemeral preservation practice”
Workshop “Contested Monuments”, University of Bonn, Germany, 15 May 2024
Title of presentation: “Beyond eternal stones: on art and ephemeral monuments”
7th Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association “Communities and Change”, Newcastle University, UK, 3–7 July 2023
Title of presentation: “Beyond eternal stones: on art, paper and monuments”
Conference “Heritages: Present and Past – Built and Social”, AMPS and Czech Technical University in Prague, 28–30 June 2023
Title of presentation: “(Un)wanted Monument: on art, memory and destruction”
6th Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies “Interculturalities”, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) – San Joaquín Campus, Santiago de Chile, 4–7 December 2022. (forthcoming)
Section of the presentation: “Contemporary art, heritage and interculturality”
Title of presentation: “Eternal or obsolete? Creative approaches of the Monument”
4th International Symposium of ICOMOS Slovenia “Resilient Heritage”, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 16–18 September 2021.
Section of the presentation: “Key challenges”
Title of presentation: “Heritage and the act of making architecture”