art historian <> east asian art

studies

East Asian Art History
>> research focus on early Chinese ceramics and bronzes

Sinology
>> ancient Chinese philology and history

main research interests

East Asian Ceramics

Early Ritual and Burial Art

Materiality and Form (+ Mutual interactions)

Contemporary Art

Intersections of Art and Digital Technologies

academic activities +
courses taught

Former Assistant and lecturer in East asian art history
(8 years, university of Zurich)

research in swiss museum collections

art Lectures + Guided Tours of exhibition

Collaborations

  • Exhibition introduction

    Introduction to the solo exhibition “stages” by Helga Ritsch, 22.02.2025 – 02.03.2025, Aux Losanges (Tschiertschen).

    > read the text

    LINK

  • Lecture

    Lecture "Materiality Matters" for the exhibition "I_Lands / Islands", 26.08.2023 – 26.09.2023, Lechbinska Gallery.

    Works by Judith Trepp (paintings) and Yoojoo Kim (ceramics)

    LINK

  • Guided tour

    Guided Tours of the exhibition "Past Tense: Contemporary Korean Ceramics: Contemporary Korean Ceramics", 01.10-2022 – 29.10.2022, curated by Yujin Kim.

    With works by: Soyul Baek, Myungseung Cha, Sinhyun Cho, Kiho Kang, Jiyeon Kang, Sojoong Ree, Youkyung Sin, Hogyu Son

    LINK

  • Conference organisation + Paper

    Symposium "Korean Art in the West. Tracing Objects from Creation to Collection", 26-27 June 2019, University of Zurich.

    Co-organised with Prof. Hans Bjarne Thomsen.

    Individual paper presented on Swiss collectors of Korean Art.

    LINK

  • Guided tour

    Guided tour of the exhibition "Poetry of Colours. Korean Art from Swiss Collections", 27.08.2017, Historical and Ethnological Museum of St. Gallen.

    Offered as part of the Museum Sunday programme during the 2nd Conference of the European Association for Art and Archaeology (EAAA).

    LINK

  • Exhibition

    Exhibition "Poetry of Colours. Korean Art from Swiss Collections", 02.09.2017 – 10.06.2018

    Historical and Ethnographical Museum, St. Gallen

    LINK

  • Guided tour

    Guided Tour "Sagemono" in the exhibition "Floating World, Hidden Beauty – Treasures from Japan", 21.07.2014

    Historical and Ethnological Museum St. Gallen

    LINK

From young years, I learned to be Attentive to and appreciate the qualities of material and form, observing this particularly in the care with which utensils are selected in East Asian tea practices. This sensibility underlies and informs my choices in collecting ceramic art. Most of the works in my collection are used in my own tea practice.

tea + collecting ceramics