Ulrike Koenen studierte Kunstgeschichte, Christliche und Klassische Archäologie in Bonn und Köln. Magister der Christlichen Archäologie, Promotion in der Kunstgeschichte. Referentin für Christliche Archäologie am Franz Joseph Dölger-Institut in Bonn, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin zur Vorbereitung des XII. Internationalen Kongresses für Christliche Archäologie 1991 in Bonn und Assistentin am Kunsthistorischen Institut in Bonn. Zudem Lehrtätigkeit in der Christlichen Archäologie in Bonn und Eichstätt und am Kunstgeschichtlichen Institut der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. DFG-Forschungsprojekt „Byzantinische Kunstwerke in Sammlungen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland“. Forschungsstipendium der Gerda Henkel-Stiftung „Die Rezeption byzantinischer Kunstwerke im mittelalterlichen Westen“. Veröffentlichungen zur Ikonographie frühchristlicher Genesisszenen und ihrer Rezeption im Mittelalter, zur Wirkungsgeschichte byzantinischer Kunstwerke im Westen und zum Fortleben spätantiker Elfenbeinwerke im Frühmittelalter.
Martina Müller-Wiener studierte Islamwissenschaft, Islamischen Philologie und Kunstgeschichte in Frankfurt und Mainz.
Volontariat in der Islamischen Abteilung des Museums für Kunsthandwerk in Frankfurt und Tätigkeit als freie Ausstellungsassistentin bzw. Kuratorin für Islamische Kunst. Seit 1998 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in der
Abteilung für Asiatische und Islamische Kunstgeschichte (ehemals Seminar für orientalische Kunstgeschichte) des Instituts für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften der Universität Bonn. Bearbeitung von Sammlungsbeständen, Ausstellungskonzeption und wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen zur Islamischen Keramik. Forschungstätigkeit und Publikationen zur Kontextualisierung visuell kommunizierter komplexer Bedeutungsinhalte, insbesondere Herrschaftsikonographie sowie zu Funktion, Stellenwert und Gestaltung wissenschaftlicher Instrumente als Bestandteil einer höfischen Objektkultur, die Wissenschaftspflege, künstlerische Produktion und Repräsentation verbindet.
NESLIHAN ASUTAY-EFFENBERGER
Born in Istanbul. 1979-1985 undergraduate and graduate studies in Art History, Byzantine and Turkish-Islamic Art History, and English Philology at Istanbul University. 1986 until 1993 graduate studies in Art History, Christian Archaeology and Oriental Art History at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms-University Bonn. 1993 Ph.D. at Bonn University on “Templon systems in the cave churches of Cappadocia”. 2005 postdoctoral qualification at FU-Berlin published under the title “Die Landmauer von Konstantinopel-Istanbul. Historisch-topographische und baugeschichtliche Untersuchungen”. Lectureships at Mainz University (1993), at the department of Asiatic and Islamic Art History in Bonn (since 1999) and at the department of Byzantine Studies at FU Berlin. Author of several publications on Byzantine and Turkish-Islamic art and architecture.
ANTJE BOSSELMANN-RUICKBIE
Works on a self-employed basis as art historian. Undergraduate and graduate studies in Art History, Classical Archaeology, Christian Archaeology and Ancient History at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms-University Bonn. M.A. 1994 on “Technical and stylistic criteria for the assessment of Byzantine churches of the Comnenian period” under the direction of Professor Dr. Horst Hallensleben. Ph.D. on “Byzantine jewellery from the 9th to the 13th century”, directed by Professor Dr. Barbara Schellewald and supported by a Ph.D. grant of the Gerda Henkel Foundation Düsseldorf. The Ph.D. thesis was awarded the “Juliana-Anicia-prize 2007” of the society for “Late Antique Archaeology and Byzantine Art History”, Munich.
ARNE EFFENBERGER
Born at Weimar. 1961-1966 undergraduate and graduate studies in Classical Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology at Humboldt-University in Berlin. 1969 Ph.D. at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg on “Studies on the Tyche of Antiochia”. 1966 research assistant at the State Museum Berlin (East). 1973 Director of the Early-Christian and Byzantine department. 1994-2007 Director of the Collection of sculptures and the Museum of Byzantine Art. Managing Director of the general restoration and installation plan of the Bode-Museum. Lectureships at Humboldt-University Berlin (1983-84), at Marburg University (1989) and Bonn (1991-92). Since 1996 professorship at FU-Berlin. Author of several exhibitions and publications on late-antique and Byzantine art.
STEFAN R. HAUSER
Director of a subproject within the special research unit “Difference and integration: interaction between nomadic and settled forms of life” located at Halle-University. M.A. in Classical Archaeology, Ph.D. in Near-Eastern Archaeology (1994). Fellow for Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks and Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Lectureships at Münster and Halle University and at the Columbia University in New York. Author of publications on the social structure of the Neo-Assyrian period (postdoctoral qualification, Halle 2007) and on the production of luxury goods during the 5th–7th c. AD in the Mediterranean. His research focuses on the archaeology and history of the postcuneiform cultures in the Near-East and on the history of science.
ULRIKE KOENEN
Undergraduate and graduate studies in Art History, Classical and Early Christian Archaeology, and Byzantine Art at Bonn and Cologne. M.A. in Christian Archaeology, Ph.D. in Art history. Adj. professor in Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History at Halle University. Worked as research assistant at the Franz Dölger-Institute and at the Institute for the History of the Arts in Bonn. Lectureships in Bonn, Eichstätt and Bochum. DFG (German-Research-Foundation) project “Byzantine works of art in German collections”. Research grant of the Gerda Henkel Foundation “The reception of Byzantine works of art in the Medieval West”. Author of publications on the iconography of Early-Christian Genesis-Cycles and their reception in the Middle ages, on the history of Byzantine ivories and enamels in the West and on the survival and reception of late-antique ivories in the early middle ages.
MARTINA MÜLLER-WIENER
Undergraduate and graduate studies in Islamic studies, Islamic philology, Art History and Ethnology at Frankfurt and Mainz. 1991 Ph.D. at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz on “A history of the city of Alexandria 564/1169 until the middle of the 9th/15th centuries. Administration and urban organisation”. 1991-1993 curatorial-assistant at the Islamic department of the Museum for Applied Arts in Frankfurt. 1993-1998 work on a self-employed basis as museum-curator. 1998-2008 research assistant at the Department of Asian and Islamic Art at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn. Her specialisation lies on the relationship between art, science and technique and on Islamic astronomical instruments and automates. Apart from that her research focuses on Islamic pottery and ceramics. Regular participation in archaeological field-work projects in Syria and Afghanistan. Author of several publications on Islamic pottery, on scientific instruments and on the iconography of Islamic art.
AVINOAM SHALEM
Undergraduate and graduate studies in Art History and Byzantine Art History at Tel Aviv and Munich. Ph.D. in History of Islamic Art at Edinburgh 1995 published under the title Islam Christianized. Islamic Portable Objects in the Medieval church treasuries of the Latin west, Peter Lang, Frankfurt, second edition 1998. Author of the publication “The Oliphant” (Brill, Leiden 2004) and editor of “Fact and Islamic Artefacts” (Brill, Leiden 2007). Lectureships at the Universities of Edinburgh, Munich and Bamberg and at the University for Jewish Studies at Heidelberg. Since 2002 professor for the History of Islamic Art at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, since 2007 Max-Planck-Professor at the Institute for Art History in Florence.
