Jacqueline Burckhardt, Dr. phil I, trained as a restorer at the Istituto Centrale del Restauro in Rome. For several years she restored at the Kunsthaus Zürich, where she also curated the performance program. In 1993 she did her doctorate at the University of Zurich with a doctoral thesis on the mannerist Giulio Romano. From 1984 to 2017 she was co-founder and editor of the art magazine Parkett.

From 1986 to 1989 she headed the “Fine Arts” department at the Migros Cooperative in Zurich and was also President of the Swiss Graphic Society. She was also a member of the Foundation Board of the Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art, where she took over the presidency in 1994 until she became President of the Federal Art Commission in 1998. She also campaigned in the Comité technique des Centre d’art Contemporain in Geneva or on the board of the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft and that of the Kunsthalle Bern. For several years she lectured at the Università di Architettura in Mendrisio and worked from 2009 to 2017 as the director of the summer academy at Zentrum Paul Klee. Today she mainly writes art criticism.