Dr Jana Scholze
Associate Professor
Contact
- Email: j.scholze@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Kingston School of Art, Knights Park
- Faculty: Kingston School of Art
- School: School of Critical Studies and Creative Industries
- Department: Department of Creative and Cultural Industries
About
I am a curator specialising in contemporary design as curatorial practice and theory and am Associate Professor and Course Director of the MA Curating Contemporary Design programme at Kingston School of Art.
I spent over a decade at the V&A where I co-curated the exhibition 'What is Luxury?' and worked on shows such as 'Cold War Modern Design 1945-1972'
Pursuing my interests via exhibition, pedagogy and publication, I am a critic at international schools such as the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, and external examiner at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Focusing on design practice, I am nominator and judge for awards such as the Beazley Design of the Year Award.
I am also Director for Postgraduate Research for the School of Critical Studies and Creative Industries at Kingston where I have been supervising and examining PhDs for years as well as in collaboration with institutions such as the V&A and Royal College of Art.
Areas of specialism
- Curatorial practice and theory
- Contemporary design
- Design history and theory
- Critical and speculative design
- Materiality/Immateriality
- Luxury
Qualifications
- 2002: PhD in Philosophy at the Technical University Berlin
- 1996: BA History of Art, Humboldt University Berlin
- 1993: Diploma in Museum Studies, University of Applied Sciences, Leipzig
Industry links
Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Research
My research is presented and published in all common academic formats as well as public facing formats such as exhibitions, non-academic books and media that communicate the influence and impact of design practice to a general public. I curated and collaborated on exhibitions such as 'What is Luxury' (2015) and 'Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970' (2009) at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Recent publications include 'Barber Osgerby Projects' (2017). A recently completed international research projects was titled ‘Material Culture as Social Memory of Society' (2013-2016) initiated by Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam where I served as research partner representing the V&A.
Research student supervision
Main supervision
Other supervision
Publications
Number of items: 7.
Book
Scholze, Jana (2017) Barber Osgerby: projects. London, U.K. : Phaidon. 312p. ISBN 9780714874838
Scholze, Jana (2004) Medium Ausstellung : Lekturen musealer Gestaltung in Oxford, Leipzig, Amsterdam und Berlin. Bielefeld, Germany : transcript. 300p. (Kultur- und Museumsmanagement [Cultural and Museum Management]) ISBN 9783899421927
Book Section
Scholze, Jana (2016) Ghosts and dancers: immaterials and the museum. In: Farrelly, Liz and Weddell, Joanna, (eds.) Design objects and the museum. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury. pp. 61-69. ISBN 9781472577238
Scholze, Jana, Faulkner, Rupert and Josephine, Rout (2016) Modern and contemporary design. In: Irvine, Gregory, (ed.) Japanese Art and Design. London : V&A Publishing. pp. 221-245. ISBN 9781851778553
Scholze, Jana (2015) Extreme future. In: Persson, Helen, (ed.) Shoes : pleasure and pain. London, U.K. : V&A Publishing. pp. 82-91. ISBN 9781851778324
Conference or Workshop Item
Scholze, Jana (2017) Why gather? The luxury of time and space. In: Nouveau Reach : Past, Present and Future of Luxury; 11 - 14 May 2017, Toronto, Canada. (Unpublished)
Exhibition
Scholze, Jana [Curator of an exhibition] and Wierzba, Leanna [Curator of an exhibition] (2015) What is Luxury? .