Vita
Studied Art History and Applied Cultural Studies/Cultural Work at KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (B.A.) and at the University of Hamburg (M.A.). 2016-2017 freelancer in the interdisciplinary research project “unterwegs. On the form, function and materiality of paths” of the Isa Lohmann-Siems Foundation, Hamburg. 2018-2020 research assistant in the project “IMPACT RheinMain”, in the sub-project “DIALOG IM MUSEUM”, in cooperation between the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences and the German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Since January 2022 Scientific Associatein the field of “Art and Knowledge” at the University of Kassel.
Forschungsvorhaben
Museum or church?
This doctoral project examines the art museum as a “new cathedral”, an attribution that has been made since the 1980s. It analyzes the differentiation in two directions: Firstly, in the understanding of the museum as a “new place of worship” in the literal sense and, secondly, in the function of the museum (building) in the post-industrial age. The recent institutional and architectural history of the museum is thus discussed in the light of the social changes that took place at the same time. This is also linked to the observation that since the 1990s, church renovations and new buildings have been realized that are sometimes indistinguishable in their conception from contemporary museum buildings.
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Art history of the 20th and 21st centuries
History, theory and sociology of architecture
History of ideas, institutions and architecture of museums and exhibitions