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Chair for East Asian Art History at the Institute of Art History, University of Zurich.
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I am an art historian specializing in Japan and East Asia with a transnational education and career (including in Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, Japan and Poland) in both museums and academic institutions. I received my doctoral degree in Japanese Art History from Gakushuin University, Tokyo in 2008, supported by a doctoral fellowship from the Japanese Ministry of Education. Before joining the University of Zurich in 2023 as a Professor in East Asian Art History, I served as Professor in Japanese Language and Culture (specializing in Art History) in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University (2017-2023), where in 2018 I also completed my habilitation. Prior to this, I served as Assistant Professor in the Art and Visual Culture of Japan at Leiden University (2011-2017) and Curator of Japanese Art at the National Museum in Krakow, Poland (1999-2008). I also held several visiting appointments, including at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala; Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto; Sophia University, Tokyo; and Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm. |
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Veranstaltungen und Ausstellungen / Conferences and Exhibitions
Topics:
• Art and visual culture in Japan, with a focus on printed culture of the 17th to the 20th centuries.
• Contemporary art with a focus on socially engaged practices and eco-art.
Approaches and issues:
• Global and transcultural art history with emphasis on postcolonial theory (Orientalism, nationalism, globalization).
• Art historiography (canon formation, collecting histories, exhibition strategies),
• Ecocriticism, posthumanism, new materialism (visual culture of disaster, socio-ecological agency of images).
• Gender and queer theory (representation of gender and race, intersectionality),
• Semiotics and narratology (multimodality, text-image relationships).
• Digital art history (distant viewing or computational macroanalysis of multimodal artefacts).
Universität Zürich / University of Zurich
Kunsthistorisches Institut / Institute of Art History
Rämistr. 73
CH-8006 Zürich
Switzerland
Büro / Office: RAK 3-302
Tel.: 044 634 28 33 (dir.)
Tel.: +41 44 634 28 31 (Sekretariat)
E-Mail: ewa.machotka@khist.uzh.ch
Fridays, 9:00–11:00, by appointment (ewa.machotka@khist.uzh.ch)
