courses — NV

Bachelor Seminars >

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

Introductory Courses >

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, in 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

Practical Courses >

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

Excursions >

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