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

该研究项目的目的是，首先，实现勃兰德堡-普鲁士艺术博物馆藏品的全面重建，这一方面代表了柏林博物馆景观的核心，另一方面，作为一个重新打开的世界之窗，可以理解为洪堡论坛的精神载体。第一个研究领域将在对包括自然历史博物馆、柏林国家博物馆和柏林洪堡大学收藏的材料进行广泛调查的基础上，系统地生成物体传记。第二个研究领域将侧重于艺术的科学和理论基础，以及与这一普遍收藏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开创性的全球收藏理论，这种理论可能会在一个新的思想层面上，甚至允许对殖民或后殖民的解释进行重新评估，通过将这种观点与开放的全球主义理论交换，将个人艺术品的欣赏置于中心位置。在此背景下，重建尝试应通过文化历史和社会地理调查进行，并从概念上澄清在所有文化中收集和展出的真正原则。第三个重点将是探索Kunstkammers作为未来模式的潜力。Kunstkammer的跨文化模式将作为一种潜在的普遍收藏概念而受到关注。在这种背景下，遵循艺术原则安排的当代展览将在其知识生成策略方面受到质疑。此外，它还将评估数字和模拟技术提供的外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制定和表达的基础。最终，通过这些全面调查获得的见解被认为合并到一个数字数据库中，在研究项目结束后，该数据库将为勃兰登堡-普鲁士艺术博物馆提供虚拟访问。除此之外，还将为洪堡论坛上勃兰登堡-普鲁士艺术的未来三维存在发展理想的概念。

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.