2012 Aufnahme in die Academia Europaea, London; 2011 Ruf an die Universität Münster (abgelehnt); 2006 Ruf auf den Lehrstuhl für allgemeine Kunstgeschichte der Ruhr-Universität Bochum; 2006/07 Fellow des Wissenschaftskollegs zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study); Gastprofessuren an den Universitäten Jena (2005/06) und Potsdam (2003); 2006 Habilitation, Freie Universität Berlin; Stipendiatin der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (1999 - 2002), der Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rom (Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, 1994–1996 und 2002–2005) und der Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung (2005–2006); 1998 Promotion an der Freien Universität Berlin. Studium der Kunstgeschichte, Klassischen Archäologie und Ägyptologie an der Freien Universität Berlin und der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Kunst und Kunsttheorie der Frühen Neuzeit
Forming people. Poietic stratagems in the portrait
More than other genres of image, the portrait prompts mimetic experiment. The visibility of brushstrokes emphasises the ›forming‹ of the faces, and the evidentness of painterly artifice highlights what painting is and how it is made; through this the poietic process itself becomes the theme of the portraits. This project will investigate the patterns of thought that generated these stratagems in the early modern period. The evocation of life and liveliness, the suggestion of authenticity and individuality through the testimony of the artist producing the work, and poietic reflections upon the ›forming‹ of the person in analogy to the creative act, are all heuristic concepts whose relevance to portrait and self-portrait painting in the 16th and 17th centuries will be explored. This is linked to the plea to focus attention not only on the level of the subject of the images and the specific form in which the person portrayed is staged, but also on the level of the manner of representation and hence the ›surface‹ of the images, which becomes a significant membrane both in the portrait and elsewhere.
