Jolanda Saal

Current affiliations

  • Professorship for history of art with focus on modernity

Academic Education

since 02/2025Doctoral candidate in Art History. Junior Fellow at KFG "Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change", University of Münster. Working title of the dissertation: ‘The restitution question of the 1970s as a transnational negotiation process: colonial reappraisal in the field of tension between political continuities and the accessibility of one's own cultural heritage’
10/2021 - 01/2025Master's degree in Art History at the University of Münster / Master's degree in History at the University of Münster (Degrees: Master of Arts). Topic of the thesis: "Blockade politics behind closed museum doors? A chronology of how state cultural institutions dealt with restitution in divided Germany using the example of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation." Reviewers: Prof. Dr. Ursula Frohne, Prof. Dr. Silke Mende
10/2016 - 10/2021Bachelor's degree in Art History and History at the University of Münster (Degree: Bachelor of Arts). Topic of the thesis: "Proletarian-revolutionary art, early socialist realism: 'Art for the education of the new man'? The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts between ideal and ideologization". Reviewers: PD Dr. Christoph Lorke, Prof. Dr. Ursula Frohne

Work Experience

since 04/2023Assistant Kunsthalle Münster
12/2021 - 12/2023Student Assistant LWL-Archivamt für Westfalen

Functions and Memberships

since 11/2024Member, Deutscher Verband für Kunstgeschichte e.V.

Publications

Saal, Jolanda (2025)
In: Bookmeyer, Heye; Krull, Lena (eds.), Burg Altena. Umbau, Kontroversen und Nutzung nach 1900. Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Saal, Jolanda (2024)
In: Erdmann, Philipp; Jensz, Felicity (eds.), Koloniale Spuren in Münster und im Münsterland. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Saal, Jolanda (2024)
Type of Publication: Web publication (blog article)
Saal, Jolanda (2023)
In: Kraus, Alexander; Lorke, Christoph (eds.), Zeitgenössische Kunst fördern und vermitteln. Neugründung von Kunstvereinen in der Bundesrepublik nach 1945/49. Hannover: ecrivir.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)

Projects

Duration: 01/04/2023 - 31/03/2027 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Centres for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences
Type of project: Main DFG-project hosted at University of Münster

Talks

"Blockadepolitik hinter verschlossenen Museumstüren? Der Umgang der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz mit der Restitution im geteilten Deutschland"
Saal, Jolanda (24/01/2025)
Gemeinsames Kolloquium "Neue Zugänge zur Zeitgeschichte" der Universität Mannheim, der LMU München und der Universität…, Vallendar
Type of talk: scientific talk
Eine ‚ständige’ Sammlung? – Die Frage nach der Restitution im aktuellen kulturpolitischen Konfliktdiskurs
Saal, Jolanda (10/02/2023)
Decolonizing Art History. Revisionen etablierter Machtstrukturen, Universität Münster
Type of talk: scientific talk