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Sven Jakstat
Sven Jakstat © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Juliane Eirich

Dr. Sven Jakstat


Function

Curator (Gemäldegalerie)

Institution

Gemäldegalerie

Contact

s.jakstat[at]smb.spk-berlin.de

Focus | Responsibilities | Projects

  • Responsible for Italian and Spanish painting of the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as French painting of the 17th century
  • Transregional exchange processes in Early Modern art, with a particular focus on Italy and Spain
  • Altarpieces and Intermediality

Vita

Since 2025 Curator of Italian and Spanish painting of the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as French painting of the 17th century
2023–2024 Research Associate (Curator) at the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg for the annual special exhibition "Nürnberg GLOBAL 1330-1600"
2020–2023 Research Associate at the Institute of Art History at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, including a teaching residency at Tel Aviv University (03/2022)
2016–2020 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies "BildEvidenz. History and Aesthetics" at the Freie Universität Berlin
2016 Research Associate at the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin for the exhibition "El Siglo de Oro. The Age of Velázquez"
2014–2015 Trainee at the Directorate General of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin for the exhibition "El Siglo de Oro. The Age of Velázquez"; simultaneously holding a teaching assignment at the Universität der Künste Berlin (Winter Semester 2014/2015)
2013–2014 Editor at the Goethe-Institut Madrid
2009–2012 PhD scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, including a multi-year research stay in Spain
2003–2008 Studies in Art History and History at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Membership

  • Since 2023 Member of ICOM (previously from 2014 to 2016)
  • Since 2022 Member of Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaften
  • Since 2017 Member of Carl Justi-Vereinigung
  • Since 2012 Member of Deutscher Verband für Kunstgeschichte

Publications

  • From the Court of Federico da Montefeltro to Ávila. Pedro Berruguete and the Transfer of Pictorial Strategies, in: Gubbio e i Montefeltro. Il governo, la cultura, il palazzo e la città, ed. by Matteo Ceriana and Paola Mercurelli Salari, [Perugia] 2024, pp. 179-195.
  • Leerstellen. Hans Tetzels Totenschild und der Bergbau auf Kuba im 16. Jahrhundert im Kontext der Ausstellung "Nürnberg GLOBAL 1300-1600", in: KulturGut, 83 (2024), pp. 12-18.
  • Zur Rekonstruktion der Vergangenheit am Altar. "Die Schlacht zwischen Christen und Mauren bei El Sotillo von Francisco de Zurbarán", in: Mitteilungen der Carl Justi-Vereinigung, 31/32, 2019/2020 (2022), pp. 38-57.
  • Farbe als Material in der Architektur Bruno Tauts, in: kritische berichte, 1 (2022), pp. 33-42.
  • "Efectos celestiales": Intermediale Präsenzeffekte, in: Sven Jakstat, Johannes Gebhardt, Johanna Abel: Präsenzeffekte. Die Inszenierung der Sagrada Forma im Real Monasterio de El Escorial, Göttingen 2021, pp. 25-108.
  • Inkarnationen. Verismus und Materialästhetik in spanischen Bildwerken des 17. Jahrhunderts, in: superficies. Oberflächengestaltungen von Bildwerken in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit (=Interdependenzen, 6), ed. by Magdalena Bushart and Andreas Huth, Cologne 2021, pp. 137-162.
  • Pedro Berruguete und das Altarbild in Spanien um 1500. Zur Ästhetik und Semantik transkultureller Aneignungsprozesse (=Berliner Schriften zur Kunst), Paderborn, Fink, 2019.
  • Various catalog entries, in: El Siglo de Oro. The Age of Velázquez, Berlin/Munich 2016, pp. 80-83, 88-89, 92-93, 100-105, 108-109, 126-127, 130-131, 134-135, 158-159, 178-179, 182-185, 188-189, 212-213, 238-241, 244-245, 254-257, 264-265, 292-293 (German: El Siglo de Oro. Die Ära Velázquez).
  • With Adrian Bremenkamp: Medialität und agency des gestickten Bildes. Zu einem Hauptwerk der Florentiner Seidenstickerei des 14. Jahrhunderts in Manresa (Katalonien), in: Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana, 42, 2015/2016 (2018), pp. 87-129.
  • Entries on: Zarza, Vasco de la (Vol. 118, 2023, pp. 342-344); Yáñez, Fernando (Vol. 117, 2022, pp. 483-485); Vigarny, Felipe (Vol. 113, 2021, pp. 176-179); Valdés Leal, Juan de (Vol. 111, 2021, pp. 493-495); Vahía, Alejo de (Vol. 111, 2021, pp. 463-464), in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (AKL).

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