Research interests:
Early modern art patronage and collecting of the Habsburg nobility, display of artworks and furnishings in castles and manors, provenance and transfers of artworks from aristocratic collections, Baroque art (especially painting), Netherlandish artists in Habsburg Austria
Teaching:
University of Maribor, Faculty of Arts:, assistant professor, art history master course program manager
Ongoing courses: Introduction to Iconography; Archival Documents for Art History; Collecting, Patronage and Reception of art; Selected chapters in Early Modern Art history
Research projects: (SICRIS)
Principal Investigator:
2019–2023: J6-1810 Art and the Nobility in Times of Decline: Transformations, Translocations and Reinterpretations (2019–2023), fundamental research project funded by the Slovenian Research Agency
Team member
- 2023–2026: NRH-2301: Tools of the Future for Research of the Past. The Use of Generative Image Models for Humanities, ZRC SAZU
Funded by the Slovenian Agency for Research and Innovation (ARIS)
- 2018–2023: L7-8282 Visual Arts between Censorship and Propaganda from the Middle Ages to the End of World War I
- 2014–2017: J6-6848: The Profane in Sacral Spaces: Representing Secular Interests in Church Art ZRC SAZU
- 2016–2019: Visual Representations of the Nobility: Early Modern Art Patronage in the Styria Province
-2011–2015: L6-4315 Visual Arts and Architecture in the Spatial Context of the City of Maribor
- J6-0104 The Noble Patron. The Role and Significance of Aristocratic Patrons in Sacred Art in the Slovene Lands from the 16th to the 19th Century
Bilateral projects co-funded by ARIS:
- BI SLO-AT/16-17-18: Art Patrons and Provincial Identity: The Role of Patrons in Building and Furnishing of Aristocratic Residences and Pilgrimage Sites in Habsburg Styria, Austria-Slovenia bilateral project, project team member
EU-funded projects:
- 2016–2019: TransCultAA: Transfer of cultural objects in the Alpe Adria Region in the 20th Century, Zentralinstitut (PI: Christian Fuhrmeister)
für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, funding body: HERA Joint Research Programme “Uses of the Past” , project team member
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Košak Tina, ed. Umetnostna dediščina plemstva v času njegovega zatona. Transformacije, prenosi, reinterpretacije / Artistic Heritage of the Nobility in Times of Its Decline: Transformations, Transfers and Reinterpretations, Ljubljana: Založba ZRC 2023, 550p. https://www.zrc-sazu.si/en/publikacije/umetnostna-dediscina-plemstva-v-casu-njegovega-zatona
Košak Tina, Komić Marn Renata and Helena Seražin, ed., Artistic and Architectural Heritage of the Nobility Between Old and New Regimes = Acta historiae artis Slovovenica, 28, no. 2 (2023).
Košak, Tina. Umetnostna dediščina vitezov Klarwillov iz dvorca Podsmreka pri Višnji Gori / Artistic heritage of the Knights of Klarwill in Podmsreka Manor, Acta historiae artis Slovenica, 28, no. 1 (2023), pp. 127–155
Košak, Tina. The picture collection of the Counts of Brandis in Betnava Manor. In Art in Slovenia at a cultural crossroads, edited by Mija Oter Gorenčič, Barbara Vodopivec Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2022, pp. 259-301.
Košak, Tina. Picture collections and furnishings in the Cobenzl residences in Carniola. In I Cobenzl: una famiglia europea tra politica, arte e diplomazia (1508–1823), edited by Federico Vidic and Alessio Stasi, Roma: Lithos; Gorizia: Archivio di Stato di Gorizia, 2022, pp. 605–634.
Košak, Tina. International art dealers, and local agents and their clients in seventeenth-century Habsburg Inner Austria. In Art markets, agents and collectors: collecting strategies in Europe and the United States, 1550-1950, edited by Susan Bracken and Adriana Turpin, New York [etc.]: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021, pp. 60-76.
Komić Marn Renata, and Tina Košak. New markets for old items: selling aristocratic collections of art and antiquities in interwar Slovenia. In Researching art markets: past, present and tools for the future, edited by Elisabetta Lazzaro, Nathalie Moureau.and Adriana Turpin, London; New York: Routledge, 2021, pp. 194-207
Košak, Tina. Pricing Paintings in Inner Austrian inventories between the mid-17th and mid-18th century. Results of Preliminary Research. In: Kunstmärkte zwischen Stadt und Hof. Prozesse der Preisbildung in der europäischen Vormoderne, edited by Andreas Tacke. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2017, pp. 102–119.
Košak, Tina. Early modern picture collections of the Counts of Herberstein: the legacies of Erasmus Friedrich Count of Herberstein, Johann Ernst I and Johann Ernst II Count of Herberstein. In Auftraggeber als Träger der Landesidentität: Kunst in der Steiermark vom Mittelalter bis 1918, edited by David Franz Hobbeleitner and Edgar Lein and Graz: Unipress,. 2016, pp. 209–235.
Full bibliography available at:
https://bib.cobiss.net/bibliographies/si/webBiblio/bib201_20230910_202421_28435.html
EDUCATION
2011 PhD in art history, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts
2005 M.A in art history and English language and literature, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts
RECOGNITIONS, GRANTS AND LONGER STAYS ABROAD
2019: Izidor Cankar Prize for achievements in art history
2019: Excellent in Science: Slovenian Research Agency Prize, 2019 (both for co-authorship of the book Betnava Manor)
2012–13: Ernst Mach postdoctoral grant, University of Graz, Art History Department
2010: Guest researcher at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris
2008: Scholarship of the scholarship fund of the Republic of Austria, University of Graz,
Art History Department
2007/08 (September-February) University of Amsterdam, guest researcher (supervisor: dr. Elmer Kolfin), ZRC SAZU grant for junior researchers
2004-05: University of Antwerp, Erasmus exchange
BOARD MEMBERSHIP
2021–… Slovenian Art History Society: Advisory board member
2017–2021: Slovenian Art History Society: executive board member
2005–… Slovenian Art History Society, member
EDITORSHIP
Since 2011 editorial board member of the Scopus and ERIH+ based journal Acta historiae Slovenica;Acta historiae artis Slovenica (2018–2020: Editor-in-chief; 2023 co-editor of the thematic volume Artistic and Architectural Heritage of the Nobility Between Old and New Regimes)
2018–2019: Editorial board member of book series Castellologica Slovenica