PROF JUSTIN E.A. KROESEN
Professor of Cultural History specializing in the Material Culture of Christianity
University Museum of Bergen
PO Box 7800
5020 Bergen
NORWAY
Tel. +47 55 58 31 27
Email: Justin.Kroesen@uib.no
Biography
Justin Kroesen studied Theology and Art History at the Universities of Groningen (the Netherlands) and Deusto (Bilbao, Spain), from 1994-1999. He received his PhD in Theology and Religious Studies from the University of Groningen in December 2003 with a study of medieval altarpieces in Spain and Portugal. From 2004-2015 he was assistant professor of the Art History of Christianity at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Groningen and acting director of the Institute for Christian Cultural Heritage at the same institution. He has lectured in the field of the cultural history and material culture of Christianity, iconography, and liturgical studies. In 2016 he moved to Bergen (Norway) to take up a research position at the University Museum in the field of art history. He is professor and research curator of the church art collection (‘kirkekunstsamling’). In 2017 he was an Alexander-von-Humboldt-fellow at the Free University in Berlin. In 2019-2020 he co-organized the exhibition North & South. Medieval Art from Norway and Catalonia 1100-1350 that was held in Utrecht (the Netherlands) and Vic (Spain). In 2021 he was guest lecturer at the Universitat de Girona (Spain) and in the autumn he will occupy the Prado Chair at the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Beyond academia, he is active in The Future of Religious Heritage in Brussels and has frequently collaborated with museums and other heritage organizations.
Research Interests
– Church art and architecture, particulary during Middle Ages and in the Early Modern period
– Liturgy and church furnishings
– Iconography
– Contemporary developments in religious heritage
– Current book project: the survival of medieval art through the Lutheran Reformation in Germany
Select books and Edited Volumes:
(with Peter Tångeberg) Helgonskåp. Medieval Tabernacle Shrines in Sweden and Europe, Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2021, 352 pp.
(with Gerardo Boto Varela) Cathedrals in Mediterranean Europe (11th-12th centuries) – Architecture, Ritual, and Urban Context, Turnhout: Brepols [to be published in 2016]
(with Peter Tångeberg) Die mittelalterliche Sakramentsnische auf Gotland (Schweden). Kunst und Liturgie, Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2013, 240 pp.
(with Regnerus Steensma) The Interior of the Medieval Village Church [2nd revised and expanded edition], Louvain/Paris/Walpole MA: Peeters Publishers, 2012, 392 pp.
(with Paul Post and Arie Molendijk) Sacred Places in Modern Western Culture, Louvain/Paris/Walpole MA: Peeters Publishers, 2011, 355 pp.
Seitenaltäre in mittelalterlichen Kirchen. Standort-Raum-Liturgie, Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2010, 160 pp.
Staging the Liturgy. The Medieval Altarpiece in the Iberian Peninsula [= Liturgia Condenda 22], Louvain/Paris/Walpole MA: Peeters Publishers, 2009, XIV + 607 pp.
(with Victor Schmidt) The Altar and its Environment, 1150-1400, Turnhout: Brepols, 2009, 314 pp.