The Department is delighted to announce that Dr Daniel Zamani, whose PhD In search of the Holy Grail : medieval tropes and the 'occultation of surrealism' in the work of André Breton, ca. 1928-1957 (2017) was supervised by Professor Alyce Mahon, has been appointed Artistic Director of the Museum Frider Burda, Baden Baden (www.museum-frieder-burda.de).
Daniel Zamani studied History of Art & Architecture at the University of Cambridge as well as Museology at the École du Louvre in Paris. His PhD on medieval and occult themes in the work of André Breton was funded by a Doctoral Award of the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain together with a Trinity College Graduate Studentship. From 2015 to 2017, he worked as Assistant Curator at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main, where he co-curated the exhibition Matisse – Bonnard. Long live painting! (2017/18, together with Felix Krämer).
In January 2018, Daniel Zamani moved to the Museum Barberini, where, in addition to exhibitions on 19th and 20th-century art, he was also responsible for the Hasso Plattner Collection and its extensive holdings of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting, including 40 works by Claude Monet alone. Among the shows that Daniel Zamani has curated or co-curated at the Museum Barberini are the exhibitions Color and Light: The Neo-Impressionist Henri-Edmond Cross (2018/19), Monet: Places (2020), The Shape of Freedom: International Abstraction after 1945 (2022) and Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity (2022/23).