The window opening onto the nature and art: a comprehensive historical-critical investigation of the Brandenburgish-Prussian Art Chamber seen as an observatory, a laboratory, communications space, and showroom of knowledge

该研究项目的目的首先是全面重建勃兰登堡-普鲁士艺术馆的藏品，这些藏品一方面代表了柏林博物馆景观的核心，另一方面，作为重新打开的世界之窗，可以被理解为洪堡论坛的精神校长。这第一个研究领域将在广泛调查包括自然历史博物馆、柏林国家博物馆以及柏林洪堡大学收藏的材料的基础上，展望对象传记的系统生成。第二个研究领域将侧重于艺术家的科学和理论基础，以及与普遍收集原则相关的知识生产的场景和实践。此外，我们的目标将是发展一种全球收藏理论的开创性方法，这种方法可能会在一个新的思想层面上，甚至允许重新评估殖民或后殖民的解释，通过将这种观点交换为开放的全球主义理论，将个人艺术品的欣赏置于中心。在这种情况下，应通过文化历史和社会地理调查以及对所有文化中收集和展出的真正原则的概念澄清来进行重建。第三个重点将在于探测出艺术家作为未来模型的潜力。Kunstkammer的跨文化模型将作为一个潜在的普遍收集概念而受到关注。在这种背景下，当代展览遵循Kunstkammer原则，在他们的安排将受到质疑，他们的知识生成策略。此外，还将评估数字和模拟技术所提供的外在化结构在多大程度上可以作为“知识保证”的策略和作为这种类型的秩序和呈现的基本重新表述和表达的基础。最终，通过这些全面调查获得的见解被认为将合并到一个数字数据库中，该数据库将在研究项目结束后提供对勃兰登堡-普鲁士艺术家的虚拟访问。除此之外，还将为勃兰登堡-普鲁士艺术馆在洪堡论坛的未来三维展示开发理想的概念。

The aim of the research project is, first of all, to achieve a comprehensive reconstruction of the collections of the Brandeburgish-Prussian Kunstkammer, which on the one hand represent the nucleus of the Berlin museum landscape and on the other hand, as a re-opened window to the world, can be understood as a spiritus rector of the Humboldt Forum. This first area of research will foreground the systematic generation of object biographies on the basis of a broad survey of materials comprising the collections of the Museum of Natural History, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, as well as Humboldt University in Berlin. The second field of research will focus on the scientific and theoretical foundations of the Kunstkammer as well as on the scenographies and practices of knowledge-production that were related to this principle of universal collecting. Furthermore, the aim will be to develop seminal approaches to a global theory of collecting that will perhaps, on a new level of thought, even allow for a reevaluation of colonial or post-colonial interpretations by exchanging this perspective for a theory of open globalism that places the appreciation of the individual artwork at the center. In this context, a reconstruction attempt shall be undertaken by a cultural-historical and social-geographic investigation as well as a conceptual clarification of the genuine principle of collecting and exhibiting in all cultures. The third emphasis will lie on sounding out the Kunstkammers potentials as a model for the future. The culture-spanning model of the Kunstkammer will be spotlighted as a potentially universal concept of collecting. In this context, contemporary exhibitions that follow the Kunstkammer-principle in their arrangement will be questioned in terms of their knowledge-generating strategies. Furthermore, it will be assessed in how far structures of exteriorization as offered by digital and analogous techniques can be combined as strategies of a »reassurance of knowledge« and as rudiments for a fundamental reformulation and articulation of this type of order and presentation. Ultimately, the insights gained through these comprehensive investigations are thought to merge into a digital databank that will offer virtual access to the Brandenburgish-Prussian Kunstkammer also after the research projects conclusion. Over and above this, ideal concepts will be developed for a future three-dimensional presence of the Brandenburgish-Prussian Kunstkammer in the Humboldt Forum.