Schirin Kretschmann

Prof. Dr. Schirin Kretschmann is a Professor of Painting and Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, where she has been teaching since 2020. Her artistic practice spans installation, painting, and performative forms, engaging deeply with aesthetic research and interdisciplinary methodologies. She maintains her studio in the Altbau building (A.O1.12) with classrooms at A.O1.13 and 14.

Her research interests lie at the intersection of visual art and epistemology, exploring how painterly actions can function as forms of knowledge production. Key areas include installation art, site-specific interventions, perception dynamics, and transdisciplinary image research. Her work challenges linear modes of perception by integrating spontaneity, pattern, and synesthetic experiences within spatial-temporal frameworks.

Although no peer-reviewed academic articles are listed, her artistic projects—such as Physical (2017), Form on the Day, and Mosaik—function as research outputs, exhibiting rigorous conceptual and material investigation. These works have been presented at institutions like Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Kunstverein Hannover, and Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Quito.

She has received several prestigious awards and grants, including:

• German National Academic Foundation
• SNSF Doctoral Funding (eikones, University of Basel)
• BS-Projects (Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture)
• Mathilde Planck Lectureship Program (LaKof BW)

Kretschmann has led and participated in significant research projects such as Präparat Bergsturz (Bern University of the Arts), six memos for the next... (Magazin4 Bregenz), Werkstatt Morsbroich (Museum Morsbroich), and Silent Materiality of Time (DFG Kolleg research group at the University of Hamburg). These reflect her engagement with transdisciplinary approaches to image and cognition.

She also mentors emerging artists through her class at the Academy, accepting new and transfer students. While specific student names are not listed, applications are managed via her official email. Artistic staff, including Lea Grebe, support her class operations.

Her work is exhibited internationally, and she maintains an active artistic presence, as seen in the group exhibition Tracing Bauhaus, where her pigment-glass installations explore color, structure, and spatial depth.