Dr. Miriam Kühn

Functions

• Research Associate (Museum für Islamische Kunst)
• Curator (Museum für Islamische Kunst)

Institution

Museum für Islamische Kunst

Contact

m.kuehn[at]smb.spk-berlin.de

Focus

• Curator in charge of textiles, glass, wood, coins and seals. She furthermore oversees the projects on provenance research in the collection and the photographic archive as well as the archive
  Website of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
• Mamluk art, architecture and material culture as well as sacred art and its social contexts
• „Contextualizing the Patronage of Mamluk Minbars: An Overview and a Case Study of the Minbar in the Mosque of Asalbāy in Madīnat al-Faiyūm“, in: Bethany Walker – Abdelkader Al Ghouz (eds.), Living with Nature and Things. Contributions to a New Social History of the Middle Islamic Periods, Göttingen
  Contextualizing the Patronage of Mamluk Minbars
• Samarra Revisited The 1911- 1913 Excavation Campaigns from the Perspective of Today’s Museum Employees
  Samarra Revisited

Vita

Since 03/2017	Curator (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
09/2012 until 03/2017	Project manager/content curator Yousef Jameel Digitization project (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
11/2011 until 09/2012	Research associate / Chair for Islamic art history and archaeology, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.
10/2010 until 04/2011	Fellow / Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
07/2008 until 10/2010	Curatorial Trainee/ Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
01/2006 until 07/2008	Graduate assistant / German Archaeological Institute, Orient-Department, Berlin.
2002 until 2014	Author and copy editor / Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (AKL). Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker.
2017	Conferral of a doctoral degree in art history / Department of Art History, Faculty of History and Art History, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
2005	Magistra Artium (Master) in Oriental art history (focus: History of Islamic art), art history and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.

Membership

• Since 2021: Member of netzwerk mode textil e.V.
• Since 2021: Member of Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V.
• Since 2021: Member of Verband Deutscher Kunsthistoriker e.V.
• Since 2021: Member of Historians of Islamic Art Association
• Since 2017: Treasurer of Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V.. Zur Erforschung der Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie.
• Since 2012: Member of ICOM.
• Since 2009: Member of Freunde des Museums für Islamische Kunst im Pergamonmuseum e.V..
• Since 2008: Member of Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V.. Zur Erforschung der Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie.
• Since 2003: Member of DAVO. Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient für gegenwartsbezogene Forschung und Dokumentation.

Publications

• „The Mosque of Mankalibugha al-Shamsi in Aleppo“, in: Aleppo Heritage Catalogue. Eine Teamwork Publikation von L.I.S.A. (in print)
• Peer-Reviewed Artikel: Two Mamluk Minbars in Cairo, Approaching Material Evidence by Literary Sources, erschienen in: Daniella Talmon-Heller – Katia Cytryn-Silverman (eds.), Material Evidence and Narrative Sources. Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of Islamic Societies, Leiden – Boston 2015, 216–235.
• "Stars, they come and go, […] and all you see is glory” – Minbars as Emblems of Power in Intra-Mamlūk Strife, erschienen in: Stephan Conermann (ed.), Everything is on the Move: “The Mamluk Empire” as a Node in Trans-Regional Networks, Goettingen 2014, 181–204.
• Islamic Art History and Museums, erschienen in: Benoît Junod – Georges Khalil – Stefan Weber (eds.), Islamic Art and the Museum. Discussions on Scientific and Museological Approaches to Art and Archaeology of the Muslim World, London 2012, 215–221.
• Peer-Reviewed Artikel: The Attar-Mosque in Tripoli, Mamluk Studies Review 12,2 (2008), 159–196.

Related links

• Yousef Jameel Digitalisierungsprojekt
• Kontextualisierung archäologischer Funde: Digitalisierung der fotografischen Dokumentation der Ausgrabungen des Museums für Islamische Kunst in Samarra (heute: Irak) 1911-1913