Publication date: 22 August 2024 - 14:01

Exhibition team of Asian Bronze

Anna A. Ślączka
Anna A. Ślączka is Curator of South Asian Art at the Rijksmuseum. She studied Sanskrit and Asian Art at Leiden University. Her doctoral thesis, defended in 2006, was a study of the consecration rites in Hindu temples. After her PhD, she worked at the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden, the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) in Pondicherry, India, and at Leiden University. Her research covers Hindu ritual and art, and ritual and iconographic Sanskrit texts, and she is currently involved in a project on production and casting technology of Chola bronzes. Her most recent publication is Re-envisioning Śiva Naṭarāja: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Brill-Hotei, Leiden-Boston, 2022).

Ching-Ling Wang
Ching-Ling Wang is Curator of East Asian Art at the Rijksmuseum. He studied East Asian art history at Taiwan University, Taipei & Freie Universität, Berlin. After working at the Kunst Historisches Insitut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut & Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, he joined the Rijksmuseum in 2016 as curator of Chinese art. His position is made possible by the Flora Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds. He has worked in numerous exhibitions in Taiwan, China, Germany and The Netherlands. His research interests focus mainly on Chinese literati painting, Ming and Qing court art and questions concerning visual, material, cultural and artistic exchanges between China and Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries; with occasional diversions in contemporary art.

Sara Creange
Sara Creange is Conservator Metals at the Rijksmuseum. She trained in objects conservation at the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, receiving an MSc degree in 2004. Her subsequent work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and in private practice covered a broad range of materials including outdoor sculpture, silver and degrading glass and plastic. At the Rijksmuseum she has specialized increasingly in the treatment and technical study of bronzes, and is collaborating with scientists to investigate materials and fabrication methods of Asian bronzes.

William Southworth
William Southworth is Curator of Southeast Asian Art at the Rijksmuseum. He graduated in Southeast Asian Studies from Hull University and gained an MA and PhD in Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. He has been a fellow of the Centre for Khmer Studies (CKS) in Siem Reap and at the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden. He is a contributor to the Corpus des Inscriptions de Campā (CIC), a research project of the École Française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO) in Paris.