Sven Jakstat

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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
Portraits! Surprising Encounters from Botticelli to Lempicka, 16.10.2026 to 14.03.2027, Gemäldegalerie
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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 2017 Member of Carl Justi-Vereinigung
Since 2012 Member of Deutscher Verband für Kunstgeschichte

Publications

With Benno Baumbauer, Marie-Therese Feist (Ed.): GLOBAL Nuremberg 1300-1600, Berlin 2026
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.
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.

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