Author and curator. He studied art history, comparative literature and Romance studies at the Rheinische Friedrich–Wilhelms–University Bonn. He received his PhD from the Ruhr University Bochum with a dissertation on the aesthetic strategy of appropriation. He completed his postdoctoral traineeship at the Kunstmuseen Krefeld.
In 2011, he won the National Prize for Art Criticism of Colombia. As an author and critic, he has written for academic journals such as Ensayos. Historia y Teoría del Arte and Reconocimientos a la crítica y el esanyo as well as for art magazines such as Artishock and Eigenarten — Das Kulturmagazin. His monograph Die Verwandlung der Dinge — Zur Ästhetik der Aneignung in der New Yorker Kunstszene Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts was published by transcript Verlag in 2012. Currently, his texts appear mainly in catalogues and book publications. He participates in various art juries and is a member of the German section of the International Association of Art Critics AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art).
He was assistant curator of the international touring exhibition Kabbo ka Muwala — The Girl’s Basket: Migration and Mobility in Contemporary Art in Southern and Eastern Africa (National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare; Makerere Art Gallery, Kampala; Städtische Galerie Bremen). Among others, he curated the exhibitions Substanz(en) (Hafenmuseum Speicher XI, Bremen), Shunted Sculptures Fleeting Words (Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen), Last notes before entering the building (Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen) as well as the 45th Bremen Förderpreis Exhibition for Visual Arts (Städtische Galerie Bremen). He was artistic director of the Lux–Projektionsfestival and, within this framework, curated the exhibitions Made in Bremen I — Positions of Bremen Media Art and Made in Bremen II — Positions of Bremen Photography.
Cultural and media studies scholar. She studied Media Studies and English–Speaking Cultures at the University of Bremen and Nottingham Trent University. She wrote her BA on the commodification of feminist representational critique. She is currently completing her Master’s in Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
