Dr. Sasha Rossman

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Abteilung für Kunstgeschichte der Neuzeit

E-Mail
aleksandr.rossman@unibe.ch
Büro
152
Postadresse
Institut für Kunstgeschichte
Mittelstrasse 43
3012 Bern

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Material Culture
  • Interiors, History of Furniture, History of Design
  • Cartography and Border Studies
  • Film and Critical Theory
  • Political Iconography
  • History and Theory of Capitalism
  • Corners, Holes, Ceramics, Games, Office Supplies, Foodways, Birds Nests
  • Contemporary Art
  • Dissertation „On the Table: Episodes in the Political Life of an Early Modern Object“ (UC Berkeley, History of Art with Elizabeth A. Honig, Margaretta M. Lovell, Niklaus Largier, Beate Fricke)

Ausstellungsprojekte

„The Plate Show“ (Berlin/Basel, forthcoming)

„Das Loch“ (exhibition at the Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2016 with Fanny Gonella)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Prints and Drawings (2015) [courtesy of the Mellon Curatorial Internship Fellowship]

Drafts Establishing Future (a project of abc berlin, 2009, with Hella Gerlach)

Lehre

HS 2020
Proseminar: Still-Life

FS 2020
Proseminar: Wimmelbilder! Die Welt in Pieter Bruegel

HS 2019
Proseminar: Vermeer (introduction to the Art of the Dutch Golden Age)

Mitgliedschaften

Netzwerk Topographische Bildmedien
https://www.arthistoricum.net/netzwerke/ntb/

Netzwerk Berührung: Literarische, Mediale & Politische Figurationen (associated)
http://www.netzwerk-beruehren.de/programm.html

Publications

“Border Games: Pierre Duval’s Cartographic Enjeux and the Performance of Borders in Print”, in 21 Inquiries (under review)

“Materializing Borders and Learning to Think in Limits, in 17th-century France” in Artium Quaestiones (Forthcoming)

“Rococo Redux: The Bloom of The White Lotus and the Return of the Rocaille” in Journal 18 (June, 2023).

“The Gift of Memory, the Mother of the Muses: Alex Müller at the Kunsthalle Nürnberg” in Wie die Zeit vergeht, exhibition catalogue (Dortmund: Kettler Verlag), 2023. 

“Tabling Peace: on the Political Iconography of Putin’s Table” in Kritische Berichte Heft 3, 2022. 

“Power Play at New Hardwick Hall: On Marriage and Heraldic Joints in an Early Modern English Table (ca. 1568)” in Heraldry in Contact, Urte Krass and Miguel Metelo de Seixas, eds. (Ostfildern: Thorbecke), 2023. 

“On Neutral Grounds: Gerard Ter Borch’s The Swearing of the Oath of Ratification of the Treaty of Münster, 15 May 1648” in, Le Fond de l'œuvre. Arts visuels et sécularisation à l'époque moderne, hg. Emilie Chedeville, Étienne Jollet, Claire Sourdin, Paris, Editions de la Sorbonne, coll. "Histo.art" 12, 2020. 

“The Antoinette Effect: An Interview with Simon Fujiwara,” Journal 18 (December 2019), http://www.journal18.org/4492.

“Entgrenzte Souveränität. Der Schurke als Spiegel der Macht in Mad Max, Captain Phillips und Mission Impossible” (mit Yumin Li) in Medialisierung der Macht: Filmische Inszenierungen politischer Praxis, hg. Irina Gradinari, Nikolas Immer, Johannes Pause, 255-272. Paderborn: Fink, 2018. 

“Das Reale der Gummihandschuhe: Zur Taktilität in Robert Wienes Orlac’s Hände” (mit Sebastian Haselbeck) in Augenblick: Konstanzer Hefte zu Medienwissenschaften (Heft 69/70, 2017), 31-48.

“On Border Play in Eighteenth-Century Europe” in Journal 18: A Journal of 18th-Century Art and Culturehttp://www.journal18.org/nq/on-border-play-in-eighteenth-century-europe-by-sasha-rossman/ (October, 2016).

“Border Spectacle: ‘Europe’ at the Edges of Representation” in Transit: A Journal of Travel, Migration, and Multiculturalism in the German-speaking World (Vol. 10, Issue 2, 2016). [Peer Review]

“The ‘Cutting Edge’ of Fashion: Designs for the Decoration of Arms and Armor on Paper” mit Femke Speelberg, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Blog, Posted: Thursday, April 16, 2015.

“Transitional Objects. The Postwar Werkbund and the Design of New, West-German Subjects (1948-1968)” in Room One Thousand, Issue 1 (2013)

Stipendien

  • Berkeley-FAU Erlangen/Nuremberg Research Fellowship, 2019
  • Berkeley-Cologne Research Fellowship, 2016
  • DAAD research fellowship at the University of Konstanz, 2015-2016
  • Mellon Curatorial Internship Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2015
  • Netzwerk Transatlantische Kooperation at the University of Konstanz: visiting scholar fellowship summer 2015
  • University Regent’s Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, 2011-2014
  • DAAD, Deutschlandjahr (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), 2002-2003