MuseumFutures

Prof Dr Marion Ackermann studied art history, history and German literature. After working as curator at the Städtische Galerie in the Lenbachhaus in Munich, she was director of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart from 2003 to 2009. Subsequently, Marion headed the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf before being appointed director of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden in 2016.

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Sir David Adjaye, OBE, studied at London South Bank University, under David Chipperfield and Eduardo Souto De Moura. With his office, founded in 2000, he realizes projects all over the world. Sophisticated materials, tailor-made designs and visionary intuition make him one of the leading architects of his generation. His most famous projects include the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC.

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Claudia Augustat received her doctorate in cultural anthropology from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, in 2004. Material culture and cultural memory, museums and colonialism, collaborative curatorship, and the decolonization of museum practice are her main research interests. She heads the South America collections at Weltmuseum Wien and the EU co-financed project 'TAKING CARE. Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Spaces of Care' in which thirteen partner institutions from ten countries are involved.

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Sarah Bergh started her own business in 2002 with her office 'BERGH KULTUR- UND KUNSTPROJEKTE'. Before that, she worked in press and organisational work in the theatre and in production for dance and performance festivals. The focus of her work is on cultural education; the topics of diversity, discrimination, and empowerment are of particular importance for her. She continuously curates mediation concepts for museums in the context of decolonisation and is a moderator of artistic and cultural-political (discussion) events.

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Alain Bieber studied rhetoric, literature, sociology, and political science in Tübingen and Paris. He worked at the European tv network 'ARTE', was an editor at the magazine 'ART' and a lecturer at several universities in Germany and France. Bieber has been curating solo and group exhibitions all over Europe on topics such as street art, net and media art, political art, and photography. He is also co-founder of 'Rosy DX, studio for digitality'. Since 2015 he is artistic and executive director of the cultural institution NRW-Forum Düsseldorf.

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Dr. Gus Casely-Hayford, OBE, is the founding Director of V&A East, a museum and collection centre presently under construction. He was previously the Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. He is a curator and cultural historian who writes, lectures and broadcasts widely on culture. In 2018 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his contribution to the arts. He has also been awarded a Kings College cultural fellowship for service to the arts and a SOAS Honorary Fellowship for assistance to Africa.

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Sir David Chipperfield studied architecture at the Kingston School of Art and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London before founding his own practice in 1985. In 2012, he curated the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. He received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2009 and was knighted for services to architecture in the UK and Germany in 2010. In 2011, he received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, and in 2013, the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association.

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Bice Curiger is an art historian and curator and has been the artistic director of the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles since 2013. She was co-founder and editor-in-chief of Parkett, an art magazine created in direct collaboration with contemporary artists, director of the 54th Venice Biennale, curator at the Kunsthaus Zürich and editorial director of Tate Etc. She is the author of numerous publications, including the monograph Meret Oppenheim - Spuren durchstandener Freiheit, and editor of the catalogue Ausbruch & Rausch. Women, Art, Punk 1975-1980.

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Lucy Darwin worked in exhibition and distribution for ten years before moving into production. She joined Terry Gilliam for the post-production of 'Twelve Monkeys' (1995) and went on to produce the critically-acclaimed 'Lost in La Mancha' (2002), for which she received BAFTA and European Film Awards nominations. In 2006, she produced Woody Allen’s Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA-nominated 'Match Point'. Her most recent production is the feature documentary 'He Dreams of Giants'.

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Professor Dr. Inés de Castro holds a doctorate in ethnology and began her career at the Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlung (Bavarian State Painting Collections) and the Archäologischen Staatssammlung (State Archaeological Collection) in Munich. At the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, she was the curator for the ethnological collection as well as the Associate Director and Authorised Signatory. As an expert in provenance research, she has been responsible for countless, highly-acclaimed exhibitions at the Linden Museum since 2010.

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Designer Raphaël de Courville combines interaction design, digital art and new technologies. Raphaël is a co-founder of the Berlin design studio NEEEU, which uses useful and playful technologies for virtual and augmented realities. As an educator and media artist, he promotes the dialogue between art and technology with others.

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Dr. Clémentine Deliss studied contemporary art and social anthropology in Vienna and London and received her Ph.D. from the School of Oriental & African Studies at London University. From 2010 to 2015, she directed the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, instituting a new lab for post-ethnographic research. She was a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study Berlin. Deliss teaches at numerous European art academies in the fields of artistic research and curatorial practice. Her current book 'The Metabolic Museum' is published in co-production with KW-Berlin.

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Prof. Dr. Hartmut Dorgerloh received his Ph.D. in art history at the Humboldt University Berlin and is a monument preservationist and cultural manager. From 2002 to 2018, he headed the Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg; with modern exhibitions about the history of Prussia, he attracted a broad audience to the castles. In 2004 he was appointed honorary professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Since 2007 he regularly holds lectures at the University of Bern. In June 2018, he was announced General Director of the Humboldt Forum.

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Elvira Espejo Ayca studied Art at the Academy of Fine Arts 'Hernando Siles' in La Paz. She is the author of specialist books on the art and science of weaving and the author of award-winning volumes of poetry. With the Bolivian musician Álvaro Montenegro she has produced DVDs of contemporary music. For years she has been committed to the preservation of indigenous cultures; and under her leadership, MUSEF had developed into an important cultural centre in Bolivia. This year she was awarded the Goethe Medal for her commitment to international cultural exchange.

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In addition to her work as a freelance journalist for various German public broadcasters (including Deutsche Welle, ARD, and ZDF), Katie Gallus worked for the United Nations in New York City. Her research took her to the Caucasus of Georgia, Egypt, Kyrgyzstan, and Brazil. She lived in Central Cameroon next to cocoa fields and worked alongside filmmakers in Sierra Leone. Katie Gallus has a passion for future issues and is a sought-after presenter on subjects of digital ideas, globalisation, development policy, and human-environmental relations.

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Julia Grosse studied art history, German literature and media studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum and worked as a columnist and arts journalist in London for the taz, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, AD Magazine, SZ Magazin and Süddeutsche Zeitung. Grosse curated 'Friendly Confrontations. Festival on Global Art and Art Criticism' at the Kammerspiele in Munich, and is currently a guest lecturer at the Institute for Art in Context at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Her book Ein Leben lang is published by Hoffman und Campe Verlag.

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Edwin Heathcote is an architect, designer, and critic. He is author of over a dozen books, including 'The Meaning of Home' and writes for a number of journals, including 'Icon', 'GQ', 'L‘Architecture d‘Aujord hui', and 'Architectural Review'. Furthermore, he is the founder and editor of the non-profit online web archive 'Readingdesign.org'.  He is also currently the 'Keeper of Meaning' at The Cosmic House, the Grade I listed former home of Charles Jencks, which will be opening soon as a museum and forum for debate around Post Modernism.

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Anita Hermannstädter is a historian and exhibition curator. After her time as a research assistant at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Humboldt University of Berlin, and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, she came to the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin in 2012 to establish a cultural studies department. As head of the Department of History of Science and Museum Studies, she is interested in the social significance of natural history museums in the past and present.

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Louisa Hutton taught at the Architectural Association and is member of the Curatorial Board of the Schelling Architecture Foundation as well as an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. She was also a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, a Commissioner at CABE as well as a member of the first Steering Committee for Germany’s Bundesstiftung Baukultur. She gives lectures and participates in juries worldwide. The architectural firm Sauerbruch Hutton has received numerous awards over the past decades. In 2015 she was awarded an Order of the British Empire.

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Dr. Małgorzata Ludwisiak is a freelance art critic, curator, and chairman of the scientific committee on the board of CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art). She was the Director of the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Deputy Director of the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Director of the International Biennial Łódź and initiator and Director of the Łódź Design Festival and has curated numerous renowned exhibitions. As a lecturer and author, she emphasizes on the social role of contemporary art and its institutions.

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Andrew McClellan is author and editor of numerous books in the field of museum science and museum history, including 'Inventing the Louvre', 'Art and Its Publics', 'The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao', and 'The Art of Curating'. He is currently collaborating with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on a comparative analysis of the works in American museums by the forger Alceo Dossena. He is also working on his latest book 'The Art Museum Beyond Bilbao'.

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Michael Moriarty coaches individual leaders and leadership teams, as well as delivering leadership development programmes for international MBA courses. Formerly, Moriarty was a British army officer and led six operational tours of duty over 20 years of service. He also held appointments in the British Ministry of Defence and in the Army’s Personnel Headquarters. In his post-military career, Michael worked for Eurostar, a private equity partnership, and a development project in Afghanistan before he founded his own company 'Team Transformer'.

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Dr. Yvette Mutumba studied art history at Freie Universität Berlin and holds a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London. Between 2012 and 2016, she worked as a curator at the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main, and later as part of the Curatorial Team of the 10th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2018). Yvette is also Curator-at-Large at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and currently lectures at the Institute of Art in Context, University of Arts, Berlin.

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Rooksana Omar has been working in the museum sector since 1987. She has been President of the South African Museums Association, of ICOM South Africa, and the Commonwealth of Museums. Furthermore, she has been an Executive Board Member of the International Commission for Museums in South Africa. Under her leadership, the Iziko Museums of South Africa have developed into spaces for critical debate on strengthening democracy. They thus make a significant contribution to achieving the goal of building an inclusive society and economy.

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Dr. Pi Li earned his Ph.D. degree in Art History and Criticism from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Bejing, where he was subsequently deputy director of the art administration. Pi Li is committed to mediating between Western and Chinese contemporary art and has curated exhibitions of international significance, including in Seoul, Shanghai, and Paris. His most recent exhibition, 'Right is Wrong: Four Decades of Chinese Art in the M+ Sigg Collection', has been shown at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester and the Bildmuseet in Umea.

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Robin Reardon leads a global team to deliver ambitious experiences in Disney theme parks, resort hotels, cruise ships, and consumer products. Previously, she held positions in marketing, business development, project management and design. In 1997, she founded her own design and production consultancy, R3 Productions, based in New York city and specialized in design solutions for memorable, repeatable guest experiences. Her clients included the World Science Festival in New York City, Herschend Family Entertainment, and Warner Bros.

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Manouchehr Shamsrizi is a philosopher and sociologist. At Humboldt University Berlin, Shamsrizi conducts research in the Cluster of Excellence gamelab.berlin and teaches at Leuphana University Lüneburg. He was a fellow at Yale University, as well as the University of Cambridge and, since 2023, he is a fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). He has been advising the German Foreign Office since 2018. His areas of expertise include the digital transformation of foreign cultural and educational policy and the foreign and security policy opportunities and risks of video games.

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Professor Dr. Kavita Singh teaches courses in the history of Indian painting and the history and politics of museums. She has published on secularism and religiosity, fraught national identities, and the memorialization of difficult histories as they relate to museums in South Asia and beyond. She was awarded the Infosys Prize in Humanities in 2018 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.

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Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier has been President of the Federal Republic of Germany since February 2017. He studied law and political science in Gießen. After working in the State Chancellery of Lower Saxony for several years, he was first Secretary of State and later Head of the Federal Chancellery. Twice – from 2005 to 2009 and from 2013 to 2017 – he was Foreign Minister and from 2007 to 2009 also Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. From 2009 to 2013 Frank-Walter Steinmeier headed the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag.

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Since joining UCCA in 2011, Tinari has led its transformation from a founder-driven private museum into China’s leading independent contemporary art institution with an annual audience of over one million visitors. In 2018, UCCA opened a second location, UCCA Dune, in the coastal enclave of Beidaihe. UCCA Edge, Shanghai, will open in early 2021. Previously, Tinari was Founding Editor of LEAP magazine, a contributing editor at Artforum, and co-curator of the 2017 Guggenheim exhibition Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World.

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Dr. Pinar Yoldas‘ work develops within biological sciences and digital technologies through architectural installations, kinetic sculpture, sound, video and drawing with a focus on post-humanism, eco-nihilism, anthropocene and feminist technoscience. She lectures as professor at the University of California, San Diego and is an infradisciplinary architect. Pinar Yoldas is a 2015 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and a 2016 Future Emerging Arts and Technologies Award recipient.

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Marie-Cécile Zinsou is President of the Fondation Zinzou set up by her family in Benin. The foundation promotes contemporary African art and is committed to cultural, educational, and social development in Africa. The Fondation Zinsou has six libraries, an exhibition room, and a museum and has organised 32 exhibitions. Marie-Cécile Zinsou is a board member of the Chateau de Versailles, the Institut des Cultures d'Islam, and the Maison Maria Casarès. Furthermore, she is Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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Nico Daswani is Managing Director of the Advisory Board for the Arts, the world's largest interdisciplinary network for cultural institutions. As an arts manager and producer, he has worked in arts organisations in London, Los Angeles and New York. Nico co-initiated the first international tour of the Afghan Women's Orchestra. He holds a BA in European Management from the University of Westminster and CESEM Marseille and an MA in Cultural Heritage from New York University.

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Kurt W. Forster has taught at prestigious universities in the USA and Europe. He has been director of various research institutes (including the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal) and curator of many significant exhibitions. In 2004, he directed the 9th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Kurt is an honorary member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Accademico di San Luca, holder of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Meret Oppenheim Prize, and an architecture prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Ronald Grätz studied German language and literature, catholic theology and philosophy in Tübingen and Frankfurt am Main. After working for several years at a UNESCO project school in São Paulo, he lectured at the Universitat de Barcelona and became a language teacher at the Goethe Institute Barcelona until 1998. This was followed by positions at the Goethe-Institut in Moscow, Munich and as director of the Goethe-Institut Portugal. Since 2008 Ronald has been Secretary General of the ifa.

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Andreas Görgen is Secretary General at the Federal Office of Culture and the Media. From 2014 to 2022, he was head of the Department of Culture and Communication Division at the Federal Foreign Office (FFO). He began his career at the Berliner Ensemble before moving to the Ecole Nationale d'Administration in France; he subsequently took positions in the federal public service, i.a. at the Federal Chancellery and as an advisor to Minister Steinmeier on economic and cultural issues, before heading the Siemens energy sector in southwestern Europe from 2009.

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Sunil Khilnani was Avantha Professor and Director of the India Institute, which he established at King’s College London in 2011. From 2001 to 2011, he was the Starr Foundation Professor at the John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., and Director of South Asia Studies. He writes regularly for the Indian and international media and is the author of 'The Idea of India' and 'Incarnations'. In 2020, he was a Presidential Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

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Benita von Maltzahn studied art history and paper conservation at London University. She began her career as a conservator and art consultant before moving into communications. Since 2011 heads up Volkswagen's Global Cultural Engagement. She paved the way for multi-year partnerships between Volkswagen and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and MoMA PS1 in New York and the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

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Professor Dr. Ulrich Raulff studied philosophy and history at Marburg, completing his doctorate in 1977. He worked freelance for various media organizations before joining Humboldt University in Berlin as a Professor in Cultural Studies in 1995. Between 1994 and 2001, he also held Editor, Chief Editor, and Head of Department positions in the feuilleton section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Süddeutsche Zeitung. From 2004 to 2018, he was Director of the German Literature Archive in Marbach.

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Dr. Harriet Roth studied Medieval History, Modern History, and Art History. She obtained her doctorate in art history in 1996 with a thesis on The Beginning of Museum Education in Germany under the supervision of Horst Bredekamp, at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her various publications deal with museum history and the architecture of Richard Neutra. Since 2019 Harriet has been the curator of the Modern Weekend project for the Bezirksamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf of Berlin, Office for Further Education and Culture.

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Professor Dr. Bill Sherman earned his BA from Columbia University and his MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge. He previously worked with Martin Roth at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), where he was Director of Research and Collections and Project Lead on the creation of the Mellon-funded V&A Research Institute (VARI). Best known for his work on the history of reading, Bill’s current projects explore the interface between word and image, knowledge and power, and the Early Modern and Modern.

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Dr. Ellen Strittmatter studied art education, German and Romance studies, and literature at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, the University of Freiburg, and the University of Stuttgart, obtaining her doctorate in 2009. From 2007 to 2013, she was curator at the museums of the German Literature Archive in Marbach; subsequently, from 2014 to 2016, she headed the research project 'Bildpolitik' at the 'Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Research Association'. From 2017 to 2018, she was director of the museums of the German Literature Archive in Marbach.

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Professor Dr. Johannes Vogel studied biology at the universities of Bielefeld and Cambridge and received his doctorate in genetics from the University of Cambridge. In addition to his position as Director-General of the Museum of Natural History, he is also Chairman of the Leibniz Association for Biodiversity and Professor of Biodiversity and Science Dialogue at the Humboldt University Berlin. With a collection of more than 30 million objects, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is one of the largest researching natural history museums globally and attracts up to 800,000 visitors annually. Vogel's vision is to promote scientific and social dialogue and encourage effective action for nature and democracy.

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Mariët Westermann teaches the history of gardens and the art of the Netherlands. Previously she was Executive Vice President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where she directed the scholarship and research programs. Her work has been recognized with grants and fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Clark Art Institute, the College Art Association, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Museum for African Art.

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