Studies in the Contemporary Art of East Asia: Challenges and Approaches

Spring 2020

Image: Kimsooja, To Breathe, 2015

Art and Ritual in East Asia

Spring 2018

Image: Buddhist Temple Room at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Burial Art of China and Korea

Spring 2016

Image: Hunting scene from a mural in the Tomb of the Dancers (Muyongchong), Goguryeo, 5th century CE

Foundations of East Asian Art History

Autumn 2019, 2020, 2021

Co-teaching, my topics: architecture, jade, metalwork, ceramics, lacquer, small carvings

Image: Anonymous court artist, One or Two? The Qianlong Emperor Studying Antiquities, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, National Palace Museum Beijing

Methodologies and Resources in East Asian Art History

Autumn 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

Image (cropped): Du Jin 杜堇 (active ca. 1465–1509), The Scholar Fu Sheng Transmitting the Book of Documents, hanging scroll, ink and colour on silk, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Metropolitan Museum of Art

Introduction to Korean Art

Autumn 2017 & Spring 2019

Image (cropped): Portrait of Seo Heon-soon, hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper, Joseon dynasty, Historical and Ethnographical Museum of St. Gallen

Introduction to Chinese Painting

Spring 2017

Co-teaching, my topics: Early painting, Paleolithic to the Song dynasty

Image (cropped): Li Cheng, A Solitary Temple amid Clearing Peaks, hanging scroll, ink on silk, ca. 960 CE, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Chinese Bronzes: Embodying Ritual and Power in Early China

Autumn 2015

Image: Tripod cauldron (ding 鼎), bronze, Shang dynasty, ca. 1200–1100 BCE (Anyang phase), Cleveland Museum of Art

Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric till Today

Spring 2014

Image: Fluted bowl, Jin/Yuan dynasty, 13th–14th century, stoneware with splashed blue glaze, Asian Art Museum

East Asian Art (History) in the Digital Age

Spring 2021

Guest speakers:

Claire Hsu, Co-Founder and former Executive Director of the Asia Art Archive

Alexandra von Przychowski, Curator of Chinese Art, Museum Rietberg

Dr. Susanne Pollack, Curator, ETH Collection of Prints and Drawings

Image: Cao Fei, The Eternal Wave AR: Li Nova, captured in the Acute Art mobile app in front of the University of Zurich main building, 22.02.2021

Critical Approaches to Curating and Exhibiting East Asian [Art] Objects

Spring 2018

Co-teaching

Image: Ashmolean Museum Chinese Art Collection, photo credit John Cairns

Contextual Frameworks in Research of the Chinese Art of 1838–1948

Autumn 2016

Image (cropped): Ren Xiong, Self-portrait, hanging scroll, ink and colours on paper, Palace Museum, Beijing

Discovering Chinese Collections in the Museum Rietberg

Spring 2016

Co-teaching

Image: Museum Rietberg

Chinese Modern Art in Paris

Autumn 2016

Co-teaching

Musée Cernuschi –– Viewing paintings from the collection with Maël Bellec (curator of Chinese and Korean arts) and visiting the exhibition “Zao Wou-Ki”.

Musée Guimet –– Visiting the exhibition “Jade, from the emperors to art déco”

Image: (left) Zao Wou-Ki 趙無極 (1920–2013), Untitled, 1949, aquarelle, Musée Cernuschi; (right) cover of the catalogue of the exhibition, Jade: des empereurs à l’art déco at the Musée Guimet