Bärbel Küster

Bärbel Küster (* 1967 ) is a German art historian .

Life

She studied art history, philosophy and education in Kiel , Hamburg , Berlin and Frankfurt am Main . After receiving her doctorate in 2000, she was a research assistant at the Institute for Art History at the University of Stuttgart from 2001 to 2009 . From 2007 to 2009 she had a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center allemand d'histoire de l'art Paris . In 2009 she represented the professorship of contemporary art history, aesthetics and art theory at the Stuttgart Art Academy . From 2010 to 2011 she was a professor at the Karlsruhe University of Design . From 2012 to 2014 she was a fellow in the Wrangell Excellence Program Baden-Württemberg. From 2014 to July 2017 she represented the Professorship of Modern Art History, Institute for Art Studies and Historical Urban Studies at the TU Berlin . After her habilitation in 2015 at the Goethe University , she has held the chair for modern and contemporary art at the Art History Institute of the University of Zurich since August 2017 .

Her research focuses on the theory and history of the museum, collection and exhibition history, transcultural art history, modern art, primitivism, reception of non-European art, copy and original, art in public spaces and photography, and current art in African countries.

Fonts (selection)

• Matisse and Picasso as cultural travelers. Primitivism and Anthropology around 1900 . Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-05-003850-0 .
• as editor with Hubert Locher , Beat Wyss and Angela Zieger: Museums as media - media in museums. Perspectives in museology. Proceedings of the colloquium from 5./6. July 2002, organized by the Institute for Art History at the University of Stuttgart . Munich 2004, ISBN 3-932704-78-9 .
• as editor: Sculptures of the 20th Century in Stuttgart . Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-936636-84-2 .
• as editor: Bamako - Dakar. West African Photography Today . Ulm 2014, ISBN 978-3-934727-36-6 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Bärbel Küster