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Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt (selfportrait).
Cátedra del Prado.
Time – The Invisible Force.
Visual Concepts Through History
2025
Academic Chair
Cátedra del Prado.
Cátedra del Prado.
Time – The Invisible Force.
Visual Concepts Through History
2025
Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt
The 14th Academic Chair of the Museo del Prado focuses on the representation of time and its impact on visual culture. It will be delivered by historian of images Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt.
The Chair is intended for the general public, as well as junior researchers and specialised audiences. The programm consists of three activities.
The central event is a series of four LECTURES. They are scheduled to take place every Thursday afternoon in the Museum's auditorium.
Secondly, the Chair holder will be presenting a four-session SEMINAR specifically aimed at young researchers. All sessions will be scheduled on Friday morning. The work performed in the seminar sessions will allow participants to reach a deeper analysis of the topics presented in the lectures. In addition, it will also provide guidelines on research resources.
Finally, a COLLOQUIUM will be held, in which the Chair holder will be joined by three additional researchers. They will be presenting related projects, designed to create optimal conditions for the development of a broader academic debate on the main topic.
RDF
- Sponsored by:
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- Recipients
- University students, researchers, professionals and the general public
- Direction
- Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt
- Organization
- Museo Nacional del Prado
- In- person and online attendance
- Participants can register online for both the conferences and the colloquium. They can be attended live via Zoom. However, the seminar sessions will be held on-site only
- Contact
- centro.estudios@museodelprado.es
Program
2026
- Nov
- 5
18.30 h
- Nov
- 12
18.30 h
- Nov
- 19
18.30 h
- Nov
- 26
18.30 h
Activity
Holder of the Prado Museum Chair 2025
Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt (selfportrait).
Image historian Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt teaches post-Enlightenment History of Art and Visual Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. She also works as an international appraiser, translator, and exhibition curator. From 1998 until 2013 she collaborated with both The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection, Detroit, now at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center in Vilnius. She was arts editor of the journal Janus Head from 2005 to 2012 and a member of the editorial team of the Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte from 2015 to 2023. She is among the co-founders of the Gesellschaft für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft. She has published extensively on her research fields of interest, specifically the avant-garde and diagrammatics, the eye and pseudonyms.
Her publications ‒ some in translation, some in several editions, some award-winning – include Stammbäume der Kunst: Zur Genealogie der Avantgarde (2005); Die Kunst der Diagrammatik: Perspektiven eines neuen bildwissenschaftlichen Paradigmas (2017); Die Chronologiemaschine: Barbeu-Dubourgs Aufbruch in die historiografische Moderne (2022) and Die Augen der Avantgarden: Von der Macht der Blicke in der Moderne (2024).