Kolja Thurner
Kolja Thurner is an Art and Visual Historian. He studied Art History, German Studies and Philosophy at Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen (B.A.) and Art and Visual History at Humboldt-Universtiät zu Berlin (M.A.). Since 2017 he is working as a Research Assistant to Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp.
His research focuses on the early modern history of double imagery as well as on the material and symbolic interplay of chance, amorphism and figuration in landscape painting.
His PhD project »Patinir and the Pioneers of Seeing« investigates the visual culture of double images in 16th century Antwerp art.
Institute for Art and Visual History
Georgenstraße 47
10117 Berlin
Room 3.14
Edited Volumes & Exhibition Catalogues
Bredekamp, H., Schäffner, W., in collaboration with Thurner, K., Meisgeier, S. and Walczak, G. eds. 2020. Themenschwerpunkt: Objekt, Ding, »Matter«. Formen intrinsischer Aktivität. Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 83. Jahrgang, Heft 3. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag.
https://doi.org/10.1515/ZKG-2020-3001
Articles in Edited Volumes
Bredekamp, H., Thurner, K. 2020. »Facing the Mouth and Exploring the Throat: Metamorphoses of the Hellmouth between Flanders and Italy in the Sixteenth Century.« Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. In On Everyone's Lips. The Oral Cavity in Art and Culture, edited by Ruhkamp, U. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 62-69.
Bredekamp, H., Thurner, K. 2020. »Maulschau und Schlunderkundung. Wandlungen des Höllenschlunds zwischen Flandern und Italien im 16. Jahrhundert.« Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. In In aller Munde. Das Orale in Kunst und Kultur, edited by Ruhkamp, U. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 62-69.
Articles
Bredekamp, H., Thurner, K. 2022. »›Je ne sçai quoi‹. On Animal Imagery, Evolution and Beauty.« In Animaux et figurations animales, special issue. Captures, 7 (2)
https://revuecaptures.org/node/6141/