Anne Koskinen, Meisterschülerin (painting and print-making), MA (fine arts), MA (German philology), is a researcher at the University of Helsinki. She is also a member of both the Comparing and Contrasting Languages and Cultures – CoCoLaC Research Community and the Helsinki Inequality Initiative (INEQ).
Description of research at the University of Helsinki
I am a grant-funded researcher at the Department of Philosophy, History and Art Studies, working at the intersection of philosophical aesthetics, Germanic philology, and visual arts.
My postdoctoral research project investigates the relationship between art and luxury in political art communication (Kunstkommunikation) in Germany and Finland. Building on my doctoral research, I continue to employ linguistic resources while developing a multimodal approach to philosophical aesthetics from the author’s perspective. My work combines philosophical inquiry with linguistic and visual methods to explore art communication in its various multimodal forms, encompassing both communication about art and communication through art.
My doctoral dissertation Zeitigung und Bilderzeugung: Philosophische Konzepte der Sinnstiftung für eine multimodale Werksästhetik (2026) is available as an electronic publication and can be read on the University of Helsinki’s open repository Helda.
Koskinen, Anne 2026: Zeitigung und Bilderzeugung. Philosophische Konzepte der Sinnstiftung für eine multimodale Werkästhetik. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Helsinki.
Focus areas of my doctoral research
The focus areas of my doctoral dissertation were situated at the intersection of philosophical aesthetics, image studies (Bildwissenschaft), multimodality research and german philology/linguistics from three perspectives:
Images/pictures
- The event of image formation
- Image-making and the pictorial constitution of meaning in the continuum of everyday life and art
- Research on the creation of pictures and art from the creator’s perspective
- Image studies and the philosophy of art as practised in art academies
Multimodality
- Multimodality in the domain visual arts
- Image-making as a multimodal event
- Speech acts and image acts
- Multimodal research approaches
Languages
- The use of natural languages in research and the visual arts
- German as a language of research and the arts
- Image Studies (Bildwissenschaft) and art philosophy
- Hermeneutics and phenomenology
At the same time, the relationship between language, thought and power is an important topic, without forgetting the concepts of intercultural and transgenerational communication.
Slide from Anne Koskinen’s presentation of her research at the conference Was die Gesellschaft bewegt – German Studies in Nordeuropa aus Sprache/Kultur, Politik und Geschichte, Helsinki, Finland, 5 May 2023.
Fields of science
611 Philosophy (especially Aesthetics, Image Studies, Philosophy of Art)
6132 Visual arts and design (especially painting, drawing, sculpture, installation art, public art, AI, text to image)
6121 Languages (especially German Philology, Multimodality, Image Linguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics, Lexicology, Terminology, Contrastive Linguistics)
You can read more about my research here:
Koskinen, Anne 2026: Zeitigung und Bilderzeugung. Philosophische Konzepte der Sinnstiftung für eine multimodale Werkästhetik. Dissertation. Universität Helsinki. http://hdl.handle.net/10138/635181
Kuvaksi tulemisen tapahtuma – yleistajuinen kirjoitus tutkimuksen ja taiteellisen työskentelyn kysymyksenasetteluista
Research account on Instagram
“Images and pictures–what are they? On the linguistic challenges of philosophical image studies” by Anne Koskinen
“Mitä ihmeen kuvia? Muutama sana filosofisen kuvatutkimuksen haasteista” by Anne Koskinen on Instagram
Links
Helsinki University Research Portal
ORCID 0000-0002-5672-1566