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Axel Langer

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  • About me

    Curator of Islamic Near Eastern Art

  • Education

    • Hochschule für Wirtschaft FHNW / School of Business FHNW

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      CAS Public Management und Führung

    • University of Zurich

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      Licentiate degree History of Art

    • University of Zurich

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      PhD History of Islamic Art / History of Global Art

      Thesis on Persian miniature painting of the late Safavid period (1600 - 1700) and its reception of Indian and European art

  • Experience

    • Institute of Art History, University of Zurich

      Jan 1998 - Jan 1999
      Assistant

    • Artibus Asiae Publishers

      Jan 1999 - Jan 2007
      Éditeur en chef / Managing Editor

    • Museum Rietberg

      Jan 1999 - now

      Conservation de la collection permanente / Collection managementRecherche scientifique / Scientific researchAcquisition des objets d'art / AcquisitionConception et organisation des expositions / Conception and organisation of exhibitibionsConception et organisation des événements / Conception and organisation of eventsConférences (grand public) / Lectures for general audiencesExpositions / Exhibitions:- Im Namen des Bildes: Das Bild zwischen Kult und Verbot in Islam und Christentum (In the Name of the Image: Imagery between Cult and Prohibition in Islam and Christianity) / 2022- Farbe bekennen: Textile Eleganz in Teheran um 1900 (Shades of Elegance: Fashion and Fabrics in Teheran Around 1900) / 2018/19- Sehnsucht Persien: Austausch und Rezeption in der Kunst Persien und Europas im 17. Jahrhundert & Gegenwartskunst aus Teheran (The Fascination of Persia: The Persian-European Dialogue in Seventeenth-Century Art & Contemporary Art of Teheran), Exposition / Exhibition, 2014- Blauer Lotos - weisser Drache: Blau-weisse Keramik aus Asien und Europa (Blue Lotus - White Dragon: Blue-and-white ceramic from Asia and Europe), Exposition / Exhibition, 2006- Pfauen, Blüten & Zypressen: persische Textilien der Qajaren-Zeit (Peacocks, Flowers & Cypresses: Persian Textiles of the Qajar Period) Exposition / Exhibition (en collaboration avec / in cooperation with Marie-Louise Nabholz-Kartaschoff), 2005Événements / Events:- Klangkunst Teheran (série de concerts / concerts), 2013- Klangkunst Istanbul (série de concerts et conférences / concerts and lectures), 2012- Tanger Trans (concerts, conférences, film / concerts, lectures, film), 2010 Weniger anzeigen

      • Curator of Islamic Near Eastern Art

        Jan 2006 - now

      • Directeur d'édition / Director of Publications

        Jan 1999 - Jan 2011

    • Université de Genève

      Sept 2014 - Jul 2017
      Enseignant (histoire des arts de l'Islam) / Lecturer of Islamic Art

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Proficiency of English