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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
  • 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

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Staff of the Gemäldegalerie

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