I am a curator, art historian, and writer based in Berlin whose research is grounded in an interest in the changing conditions of aesthetic experience in contemporary art. My work investigates how curatorial methodologies have complicated the modernist emphasis on visual immediacy and the autonomous art object, opening the static encounter with art to spatial and temporal dimensions. By bringing objects and images into relation with texts, archives, publications, and time-based activities, artists and curators ask audiences not only to look but to move, read, listen, think, and make connections. These shifts have changed how we know, think about, and understand art today.
In my work as a curator, writer, and researcher, I have studied the emergence of the exhibition as a critical and artistic form and explored through my own practice the exhibition’s active role in shaping relationships among art, ideas, and audiences. These questions informed Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form since 1968 and were extended in Postsensual Aesthetics: On the Logic of the Curatorial, where I examined how reading, thinking, and cognitive connections with ideas have become increasingly integral to contemporary aesthetics.
I am interested in how these developments have altered aesthetic experience and the possibilities through which expanded artistic and curatorial practices can give form to ideas and knowledge.
