Sophia Vassilopoulou

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M.A. Sophia Vassilopoulou

Function

Research Associate (Museum für Islamische Kunst)

Institution

Museum für Islamische Kunst

Contact

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

Focus | Responsibilities | Projects

Coordinating Curator for the new permanent display of the Museum for Islamic Art
Research interests: Art and architecture under the Rum-Seljuks, 12th-13th century; cultural transfer processes around the Mediterennean; Museum Studies

Vita

Seit 07/2022	Research associate and Coordinating Curator for the new permanent display, Museum für Islamische Kunst
03/2022–10/2022	Research Associate, Agent for diversity development (Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Museum für Islamische Kunst)
2017–2021	PhD-Fellow, Berlin Graduate School for Ancient Studies, Berliner Antikekolleg and free lance in museum education, Staatliche Museen Berlin
2012–2017	Research Associate, project "Objects in Transfer: Concepts for Communicating Transfer Processes between the Near East and Europe in the Museum Context", Collaborative Research Centre 980 (FU Berlin) - Museum für Islamische Kunst
2010–2012	Curatorial Assistant, Museum für Islamische Kunst

Publications

Curating objects transculturally: an innovative exhibition trail at the Museum für Islamische Kunst Berlin, in: Museum Innovation: Building more equitable, relevant and impactful Museums, ed. Melissa Forstrom and Haitham Eid, London 2021.
Bringing academic research int the museum: reflections on the process of developing the exhibition trail, in: Objects in Transfer. A Transcultural Exhibition Trail through the Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin“, ed. V.Beyer, I. Dolezalek and Sophia Vassilopoulou, Berlin, 2016.
With Katharina Meinecke, Mschatta: Islamic art and its connection to antiquity, in: Exhibition Catalogue The Art and Culture of Umayyad Damascus and Abbasid Baghdad (650–950), (Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization, October 2014), ed. Stefan Weber, Ulrike Al-Khamis, Susan Kamel, Munich 2014.
Imperial references: The Gök Medrese in Sivas as an example o the use of marble in thirteenth-century Anatolia, in: Special issue of Funūn/kunsttexte.de, 3/2014: Architectural Models, Mobility, and Building Techniques, Modes of Transfer in Medieval Anatolia, Byzantium, and the Caucasus (Ed. P. Bles).

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