Funded by the Max Planck Society’s flagship Lise Meitner Excellence Program, I lead the Decay, Loss, and Conservation in Art History Research Group at the Bibliotheca Hertziana. We analyze how objects transform over time and the ways in which they find new form, whether as fragments, ruins, or waste. The goal is to ask what it would mean to write a history of art that celebrates maintenance as much as it does innovation.
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Team
The research group brings together predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows, editorial and executive assistants, and guest scholars.
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What we do
We examine how the inherent material instability of objects shapes the way we handle, think about, and write about them.
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Events
Through lectures, workshops and exhibitions we seek to foster dialogue across art history, conservation, and museum and heritage studies.