Exhibitions, Tenure & Projects

2002 - 2003 Co-curator and project manager at the Art & Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany for:

• „Japans Schönheit, Japans Seele” (Soul and Beauty of Japan, 26.08. – 26.10.2003)
• „100 Jahre Tokyo” (100 years of Tokyo, Photo Collection of the Camera Museum Tokyo, 05.09. – 26.10.2003)
• „Göttliches Alter – Ewige Jugend: Nō-Masken aus der Sammlung Naitō, Nobeoka” (Divine Age – Eternal Youth: Noh Masks from the Nobeoka Naitō Collection, 05.09.– 26.10.2003)

2004 – 2005 International liaison department officer and English exhibition text advisor at the Tokyo National Museum & cooperation with the Nara National Museum for:

• 東京国立博物館本館リニューアル　グランド・オープン分野別展示・企画展示 (Grand Renewal Opening of the main Japanese Gallery Tokyo National Museum)
• 奈良国立博物館/韓国国立慶州博物館共同開催展「黄金の国・新羅- 王陵の至宝 -」、7月10日～8月29日 (The Golden Land of Silla - treasures from the royal tombs, Nara National Museum)  
• 日本国際博覧会開催記念展: 「世紀の祭典　万国博覧会の美術　～パリ・ウィーン・シカゴ万博に見る東西の名品～」 、平成館特別展示室、7月6日～8月29日 (Arts of East and West from World Expositions 1855 -1900. Paris, Vienna, and Chicago)

2004 – 2005 Exhibition loan negotiator, curator and courier for Art & Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany for:

• „Dschingis Khan und seine Erben. Blüte und Niedergang der Steppenreiche Zentralasiens“, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn. (Genghis Khan and his Heirs, 16.06.– 25.09.2005)

2005 – 2008 Chief-curator and project manager at the Art & Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany for:

• „Tempelschätze des heiligen Berges. Daigo-ji – Der Geheime Buddhismus in Japan, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn. (Temple Treasures of a Sacred Mountain. Daigo-ji - The Secret Buddhism in Japan, 25.04. - 24.08.2008)

2010 – 2013 Chief curator of the Digital Humanities Project JBAE, an international joint project between the University of Zurich and the Hosei University Tokyo, funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:

• “Research and Evaluation of Japanese Buddhist Objects in European Museums”, an international cooperation project of the Hosei University and the University of Zurich, Dept. of Japanese Studies
  

2010 – 2018 collection evaluation & object research for Japanese religious objects across European Museums in conjunction with the JSPS Digital Humanities Project JBAE, amongst others at:

• Austria: MAK (Vienna)
  
• Belgium: Brussels Royal Museums of Fine Arts
• Croatia: Rovinj Heritage Museum
  
• Czech Republic: National Gallery in Prague, Naprstek Museum, etc.
  
• France: Musée Georges Labit Toulouse, Cernuschi Museum of the Asian arts of Paris, Musée de l'Homme, Bibliothèque nationale de France, etc.
  
• Germany: Museum für Asiatische Kunst Berlin, Linden Museum Stuttgart, MKG Hamburg, Ueberseemuseum Bremen, Five Continents Museum Munich, etc.
  
• Greece: National Museum of Asian Art Corfu
  
• Irland: Chester Beatty Library
  
• Italy: MAO Torino, National Museum of Oriental Art Tucci Rome, Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography
• Netherlands: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde Leiden (current Wereld Museum), etc.
  
• Portugal: Museum of the Orient
• Russia: State Museum of Oriental Art Mosecow, etc.
  
• Spain: National Museum of Decorative Arts
• Switzerland: Rietberg Museum, MEG Geneve, Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich, Ethnological Museum Neuchatel, etc.
  
• UK: British Museum (Collection of Edo period Buddhist objects)
  

The database JBAE is currently undermaintenance and reopening will be announced by the Hosei University

2013 - present Visiting Researcher of the Hosei University Tokyo

• @Hosei University Institute of International Japanese Studies, Tokyo and advisor of the project JBAE

2013 –2014 Guest curator at the Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich (Ethnographic Museum, UZH) for the exhibition:

• WegZeichen. Japanische Kult- und Pilgerbilder. Die Sammlung Wilfried Spinner (1854–1918) / (Tokens of the Path. Japanese Devotional and Pilgrimage Images. The Wilfried Spinner Collection (1854–1918). 28.11.2014 - 17.5.2015

2013 - 2016 Scientific advisor to the Musée d'ethnographie de Genève for:

• Le bouddhisme de Madame Butterfly. Le japonisme bouddhique (The Buddhism of Madame Butterfly: Buddhist Japonism.) 9.9.2015 – 10.1.2016

2015-2017 Assessment and cataloguing of the new Wilfrid Spinner bequest of 2015 on behalf and funded by the Spinner family.

2015 - present Affiliated researcher of Nichibunken / International Research Center for Japanese Studies International Cooperation Project:

• „Reconsideration of Japanese religious history based on the concept of discrimination: the logic of sanctity and banality as seen in the traditions of religious and secular sovereignty“ /国際日本文化研究センター共同研究員・磯前順一共同研究グループ「差別から見た日本宗教史再考─社寺と王権に見られる聖と賤の論理」

2015 - present Cooperation and contribution to the Swiss database e-Codices and the Foundation Bodmer Geneve

• e-Codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland

2015 - present Ph.D. project @University of Tübingen, Dept. of Japanese Studies

• Understanding Religion in the Age of Imperialism and Protestant Missions: The Spinner-Minami Collection of Japanese Religious Icons and its Significance (PDF)
  

2016 - 2020 Research Project Kanda Sōtei @ University of Zurich Department of Japanese Studies:

• Kanda Sōtei: The Shogun’s Sacred Painters and their Realm of Influence. Peer reviewed paper in Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 47/2
  

2017 Cooperation with the Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich and the Goethe Stadt Museum Ilmenau for:

• Wilfrid Spinner - Schweizer Theologe in Japan und Thüringen. Seine Sammlung japanischer Kult- und Pilgerbilder

2020 International Promotion Project, World Heritage Kyoto Daigoji Temple

• World Cultural Heritage Daigoji Temple, Kyoto