The Second Glance: Women | Christina Haak

Film

“Women” is the second integrated exhibition in the series The Second Glance. The show analyses the traditional gender roles and challenges the functions ascribed to women in society – for example, as goddesses, heroines, prostitutes, saints, queens, academics – and on the role of women in society. In six themed paths featuring 62 objects dating from the 4th to the 18th century, these women are situated within their own historical contexts and also discussed through the critical lens of the 21st century.

Christina Haak studied art history in Braunschweig and Münster and received her doctorate in 1999 with a dissertation about Baroque portrait in northern Germany. After a three-year research project at the Museum für Kommunikation in Frankfurt am Main, she was Head of Project Management at Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel (formerly the Staatliche Museen Kassel) from 2003 to 2008. She then moved to Berlin and became Head of Project Planning at the Directorate General of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. In 2011, Christina Haak assumed the position of Deputy Director General of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, where as Chief Digital Officer from 2017 to 2019 she was also responsible for digital transformation within the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. She has been Vice President of the Deutscher Museumsbund e. V. since 2018.