Team
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Marion von Osten
Marion von Osten (Berlin, Germany) is a curator, researcher and writer who lives and works in Berlin. She has been working as a curator and artistic director of bauhaus imaginista (2018–19) since 2014, and was joined by Grant Watson as co-curator and artistic director in 2016. → more
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Grant Watson
Grant Watson is a curator and researcher based in London. With Marion von Osten he developed the conceptual and structural framework for bauhaus imaginista which was launched in 2016. → more
Julia Jung
Julia Jung has a degree in Business Administration and holds an MA in Arts and Cultural Management. She has many years’ professional experience in project management and event planning. → more
Iris Ströbel
Iris Ströbel is a text and image editor who studied cultural studies. Her editorial projects occupy the fields of contemporary art, film, architecture and their interfaces. → more
Michael Baers
Michael Baers received his PhD from the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in 2014. Since 2010 his work has focused on the cultural outcomes of conflict irresolution in the Middle East and North Africa. → more
Julia Jung
Julia Jung has a degree in Business Administration and holds an MA in Arts and Cultural Management. She has many years’ professional experience in project management and event planning. → more
Philipp Krüger
Philipp Krüger is a graduate of the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies, Giessen and the postgraduate course Curating in the Performing Arts at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg. → more
Franziska Zahl
Franziska Zahl is a curatorial assistant, project manager, and Dj. She studied art history, cultural studies and Italian language and literature and in 2016 co-founded Bureau Konkret. → more
Annette Schryen
Annette Schryen is a freelance art historian and culture manager. She lives and works in Berlin. The emphasis of Annette Schryen’s professional activities lies in the field of modern and contemporary art. → more
Iris Ströbel
Iris Ströbel is a text and image editor who studied cultural studies. Her editorial projects occupy the fields of contemporary art, film, architecture and their interfaces. → more
Jonas von Lenthe
Jonas von Lenthe, a trained carpenter, has studied product and exhibition design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. Since 2016 he studies and Experimental Design at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (University of Fine Arts) in Hamburg. → more
Anja Guttenberger
Anja Guttenberger studied art history as well as English and Spanish philology. She received her PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin with her thesis about photographic self-portraits at the Bauhaus. → more
Michael Baers
Michael Baers received his PhD from the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in 2014. Since 2010 his work has focused on the cultural outcomes of conflict irresolution in the Middle East and North Africa. → more
Jill Winder
Jill Winder is a writer and editor who studied political theory and holds an M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York. → more
Kooperative für Darstellungspolitik
The Kooperative für Darstellungspolitik engages in research into the representation of political and cultural concerns in the public sphere. → more
Matthias Görlich
Matthias Görlich is a communication designer, teacher, and researcher. In 2000, he set up his design studio as a platform for critical research, education, and design development. → more
Bonbon
Bonbon was founded in 2003 by Valeria Bonin and Diego Bontognali in Zurich. Mirko Leuenberger has been a permanent member of the team since 2015. → more
Julie Peeters
Julie Peeters lives and works in Brussels. She studied at Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht and Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem. Since 2006, she has been running her own studio. → more
Hendrik von Boxberg
Hendrik von Boxberg is a freelance PR consultant based in Berlin. Hendrik von Boxberg studied Communication Science (Publizistik/Medienwissenschaften) at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. → more
Mathilde Weh
Mathilde Weh is a deputy director, curator and musician and works in the department of visual arts at the headquarter of the Goethe-Institute in Munich. → more
Helena Čapková
Helena Čapková is a Tokyo-based curator, researcher, and art history professor at Waseda University, Tokyo. She studied transnational visual culture and Japanese studies in Prague and London. → more
Anshuman Dasgupta
Anshuman Dasgupta is an art historian and curator teaching in Visva-Bharati University. He is currently chief curator for Kala Bhavan in its 100 years (founded by Rabindranath Tagore in 1919). → more
Fabienne Eggelhöfer
In 2017 Fabienne Eggelhoefer has been appointed chief curator and head of collection, exhibitions and research at the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern. → more
Luca Frei
Luca Frei's work includes a wide range of media such as drawing, collage, painting, installation, performance, video, and photography, often developed in response to a specific context. → more
Yuko Ikeda
Yuko Ikeda is Senior Curator at The National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo and co-curator of the exhibition bauhaus imaginista: Corresponding With Momak in Kyoto. → more
Partha Mitter
Partha Mitter is Emeritus Professor in art history. As writer and historian of art and culture, he specializes in the reception of Indian art in the West and in global modernism. → more
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Jin Motohashi
Jin Motohashi completed his PhD at Waseda University. He is a Doctor of Engineering. Since 2017 he is assistant curator at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. → more
The Otolith Group
The Otolith Group, founded in 2002, consists of Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, both of whom live and work in London. Its work is research-based and focuses in particular on the essay film. → more
Hiromitsu Umemiya
Hiromitsu Umemiya is a trained architect and Professor at the Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University. He focusses on the Bauhaus's influence on Japanese design. → more
Kader Attia
Kader Attia lives and works in Berlin and Algiers. His research focuses on the concept of repair as a constant in human nature, about which the Western and non-Western worlds have always had opposing visions. → more
Elissa Auther
Elissa Auther is the Windgate Research and Collections Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design and Visiting Associate Professor at the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan. → more
Erin Alexa Freedman
Erin Alexa Freedman studies the history of technology and design, with a particular focus on how processes of making and knowing are conceived by practitioners across the domains of art, craft and science. → more
Maud Houssais
Maud Houssais is an independent researcher. Her research focuses on the elaboration of an alternative art scene in Morocco from the 1960s, with a particular focus on discourses and artistic practices in the public space. → more
Luiza Proença
Luiza Proença is a contemporary art writer, editor and curator based in São Paulo, Brazil. She is the former curator of mediation and public programmes of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo. → more
Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan
Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan is Professor at the School of Design, Ambedkar University, Delhi, India. Her research interests centre on nineteenth and twentieth-century craft and design in the Indian subcontinent. → more
Regina Bittner
Regina Bittner is head of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Academy. Her work focuses on international architecture and urban research, modernity and migration, the cultural history of modernity and heritage studies. → more
Zhang Chunyan
Zhang Chunyan (Hangzhou, China) is the Assistant Director of China Design Museum (CDM) at China Academy of Art (CAA), and curator and researcher at the Bauhaus Institute, at CAA. → more
Alice Creischer
Alice Creischer studied Philosophy, German literature and Visual Arts in Düsseldorf. In the Nineties, Creischer contributed to a great number of collective projects, publications, and exhibitions. → more
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Zvi Efrat
Zvi Efrat is a Tel Aviv based architect and architectural historian at Efrat-Kowalsky Architects (EKA). The office specializes in the design of museums and in the reprogramming and reuse of existing structures. → more
Tatiana Efrussi
Tatiana Efrussi is an artist and art historian currently based in Paris. In 2011 she graduated from Moscow State Lomonosov University with a paper on Soviet connections to the Bauhaus. → more
Thomas Flierl
Thomas Flierl was Senator for Science, Research and Culture in Berlin (2002–2006). Today he is an independent architectural historian and publicist with his focus on the Bauhaus in the SU and the GDR. → more
Eduard Kögel
Eduard Kögel studied architecture, urban and landscape planning. He currently works as an independent advisor and researcher focusing on transfer histories between Europe and Asia. → more
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Doreen Mende
Doreen Mende is a curator, theorist, researcher, and writer. She is currently Associate Professor and Head of the CCC Research Master and PhD-Forum of the Visual Arts Department at HEAD in Geneva. → more
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Daniel Talesnik
Daniel Talesnik is a trained architect specializing in modern and contemporary architecture, focussing on architectural pedagogy and relationships between architecture and political ideologies. → more
Wendelien van Oldenborgh
Wendelien van Oldenborgh develops works in which the cinematic format is used as a methodology for production and as the basic language for various forms of presentation. → more
Gao Yuan
Gao Yuan works as a project manger in China Design Museum (CDM) at China Academy of Art (CAA). He co-curated with his team at CDM the bauhaus imaginista exhibtion Moving Away. → more
Gavin Butt
Gavin Butt is a writer, scholar, filmmaker, and curator. His publications span art history, visual culture, performance studies, popular music, and queer studies. He is Attenborough Chair in Drama, Theatre and Performance. → more
Christian Hiller
Christian Hiller is a media scientist, curator and editor at ARCH+ Zeitschrift für Architektur und Stadtdiskurs. He studied film and media studies and has collaborated on interdisciplinary exhibition projects. → more
Mariana Meneses
Mariana is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Creative Economy Engagement by Midlands3Cities. She is researching the legacy and influence of the Bauhaus in Great Britain, particularly in popular youth culture. → more
Anja Guttenberger
Anja Guttenberger is an independent Bauhaus researcher, author, editor and curator. For bauhaus imaginista she has carried out research for all conceptual chapters in archives in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. → more