Julia Gonnella

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Julia Gonnella (born March 14, 1963 in Düsseldorf ) is an Islamic scholar and has been director of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha , Qatar, since April 2017 .

Education and career

After graduating from high school in Düsseldorf, she studied in London at the School of Oriental and African Studies , where she completed her bachelor's degree in archeology and Islamic art in 1986 , followed by a master's degree in social anthropology a year later. She submitted her dissertation in 1994 at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität in Tübingen on “Islamic worship of saints in an urban context using the example of Aleppo (Syria)”. In the same year she moved to Berlin to become assistant to the chief curator at the Museum of Islamic Art .

In 2009 she began working as a curator in this house, where she had her first exhibition in 2011, “SCHAHNAME: Heroische Zeiten. A Thousand Years of Persian Book of Kings ”. The Berlin exhibition How Islamic Art Came to Berlin. The collector and museum director Friedrich Sarre from 2015 was shown two years later in a different form in Vienna.

Already during her studies she was involved in the German excavation in ar-Raqqa under Michael Meinecke . After his death, she worked as coordinator from 1995 to 2011 on the excavations of the citadel of Aleppo , about which she also published several times. During the civil war in Syria between 2013 and mid-October 2017, it was no longer possible to work there. The severe destruction caused by the war was repeatedly the subject of their publications.

The Museum of Islamic Art has seen several changes at its top since it opened in November 2008. Before Julia Gonnella, Aisha Al Khater held this position, who in turn took over this position from Oliver Watson , who had been in charge from the opening until 2011.

Works

  • A Christian-Oriental house from the 17th century from Aleppo (Syria): the "Aleppo Room" in the Museum of Islamic Art, State Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage / Museum of Islamic Art. von Zabern, Mainz 1996, ISBN 978-3-8053-1973-7
  • The Citadel of Aleppo and the Temple of the Weather God: New Researches and Discoveries. Rhema, Münster 2005, ISBN 978-3-930454-44-0
  • Angels, peonies, and fabulous creatures: the Aleppo Room in Berlin. Rhema, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-930454-82-2
  • Heroic Times: A Thousand Years of Persian Book of Kings. Edition Minerva, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-938832-70-7
  • Heroic times: a thousand years of the Persian Book of kings. Edition Minerva, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-943964-03-5
  • How Islamic art came to Berlin: the collector and museum director Friedrich Sarre (1865 - 1945). Reimer, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-496-01544-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1000 years of the Persian Book of Kings. The seven adventures of Rostam. Booklet accompanying the exhibition. State museums in Berlin, visitor services
  2. ^ Exhibition on the beginning of Islamic art history , June 7 - July 6, 2017, Institute for Art History at the University of Vienna
  3. ↑ Short CVs - speakers Layers of Islamic Art , Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , Speaker Curriculum Vitae, January 2010
  4. ↑ About MIA Director - Museum of Islamic Art , on The Museum Of Islamic Art , October 23, 2016
  5. ^ Karen Exell, Sarina Wakefield: Museums in Arabia: Transnational Practices and Regional Processes . Routledge 2016, ISBN 978-1317092766 , no page number
  6. ↑ Oliver Watson , Islamic Art Symposium, Podcast 2013
personal data
SURNAME Gonnella, Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scholar of Islam and director of the MIA in Doha
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf