Current//
Director
Heidelberger Kunstverein
Since 2022
Recent side activities include: Special Correspondent for the Future Generation Art Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv; Visiting Mentor at the Berlin Programme for Artists (BPA); Juror for the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg; Studio Visitor at Akademie Schloss Solitude; and holding the laudation for Hito Steyerl on the occasion of the Erich Fromm Award 2025.
Past//
Freelance Curator
Projects include:
K21 Museum Düsseldorf,
LAYR, Vienna & Art Unlimited, Basel,
Zurich University of the Arts.
Until 2022. From 2020.
Head of the
Museum of Contemporary Art/Gegenwart
Kunstmuseum Basel
Basel
Until 2020. From 2013.
Director
Kölnischer Kunstverein
Until 2013. From 2012.
Director
Grazer Kunstverein
Until 2011. From 2005.
PhD Researcher & Lecturer
Kunsthochschule Kassel
Until 2005. From 2004.
Curator
Kunstverein Munich
Until 2004. From 2002.
Scholarship "European Curators"
Foundation Germinations Europe
Until 2002. From 2001.
Artistic Director
Videonale 9, Bonn
Until 2001. From 2000.
Curatorial Assistant
Frankfurter Kunstverein
Until 2000. From 1999.
Academic studies//
University of Hildesheim
Cultural Studies
Diploma 1993 - 1997
Goldsmiths College, London
Fine Art Administration & Curatorship
Master of Arts 1997 - 1998
Origin//
Born in 1971 in Hannover, Germany