Asad Raza creates dialogues and rejects disciplinary boundaries in his work, which conceives of art as a metabolic, active experience. Diversion, first shown at Portikus in 2022, diverts a river through the gallery space. Absorption, in which cultivators create artificial soil, was the 34th Kaldor Public Art Project in Sydney (2019), later shown at the Gropius Bau, Berlin (2020) and Ruhrtriennale (2021). In Untitled (plot for dialogue) (2017), visitors played tennis in a sixteenth-century church in Milan. Root sequence. Mother tongue, at the 2017 Whitney Biennial, combines twenty-six trees, caretakers, and objects. Schema for a school was an experimental school at the 2015 Ljubljana Graphic Art Biennial. Raza premiered the feature film Minor History at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2019. Raza’s works often inhabit intimate settings such as The Bedroom at the 2018 Lahore Biennale. For Home Show (2015), at his apartment in New York, Raza asked artists, friends, and family to intervene in his life, while Life to come (2019) at Metro Pictures featured participatory works and Shaker dance. With Hans Ulrich Obrist, he curates a series of exhibitions inspired by Édouard Glissant, including Mondialité (Villa Empain, Brussels), Trembling Thinking (Americas Society, New York), Where the Oceans Meet (MDC Museum of Art and Design, Miami), and This language which is every stone (IMA, Brisbane). Raza studied literature and filmmaking at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, and New York University, where he helped organize a labor strike.
Professors
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Monika Baer
Fine Arts and Painting![Photo: Åsa Lundén, Moderna Museet](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/1425/daniel_birnbaum_002_dali_web.500x500.jpg)
Daniel Birnbaum
Philosophy and Art Education![Photo: Louis Haugh](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/4862/gerard_byrne.500x500.jpg)
Gerard Byrne
Film![Photo: Constanze Flamme](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/10121/benjamin_foerster-baldenius_foto_constanze_flamme_webres.500x500.jpg)
Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius
Cohabitation, Vice-Rector![Photo: Heji Shin](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/1431/000054_01.500x500.jpg)
Isabelle Graw
Art History and Art Theory![Foto: Florian Zeyfang](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/1433/final_judith_hopf_web.500x500.jpg)
Judith Hopf
Fine Arts![Photo: Sebastian Bolesch / HKW](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/4733/unnamed.500x500.jpg)
Hassan Khan
Fine Arts![Photo: Büro Schramm für Gestaltung](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/1435/141016_kulturamt-1467_la01_web.500x500.jpg)
Philippe Pirotte
Art History and Curatorial Studies![Photo: Valentina Knežević](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/7193/yasmil_raymond_foto_2_valentina_knezevic_c_stadelschule_2020.500x500.jpg)
Yasmil Raymond
Rector, Professor for Curatorial Studies![Photo: Killa Schuetze](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/1437/rehberger_img.500x500.jpg)
Tobias Rehberger
Sculpture![Photo: Jonas Leihener](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/1439/willem_scan2_web.500x500.jpg)
Willem de Rooij
Fine Arts![Photo: Abigail Enzaldo, © Haegue Yang and kurimanzutto, 2017](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/1443/unnamed.500x500.jpg)
Haegue Yang
Fine ArtsGuest
Professors
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Éric Baudelaire
Fine Arts![© Pauline Ferron@ArtExplora](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/14568/flakahaliti_c_paulineferron_artexplora.500x500.jpg)
Flaka Haliti
Fine Arts![Photo: Herman Dreyer](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/14562/camille_norment_bw_hd_ed.500x500.jpg)
Camille Norment
Fine Arts![](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/14559/henrik_2041.500x500.jpg)
Henrik Olesen
Fine Arts![Photo by Keshet Migdal](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/14565/nirapereg_portraitpicture.500x500.jpg)
Nira Pereg
Fine ArtsPast Faculty
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Hannah Black
Winter Semester 2021/22: Guest Professor for Fine Arts![](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/8447/image001.500x500.jpg)
Tania Bruguera
Summer Semester 2021: Guest Professor for Fine Arts![](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/12588/screenshot_2023-02-28_at_11_09_53.500x500.png)
Francisco Camacho Herrera
Summer Semester 2023: Guest Professor for Fine Arts![Photo: Albrecht Fuchs](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/10371/cytter-_keren_foto_albrecht_fuchs.500x500.jpeg)
Keren Cytter
Summer Semester 2022: Guest Professor for Fine Arts![Photo: Christian Werner](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/11259/clementinedeliss_by_christianwerner_62.500x500.jpg)
Clémentine Deliss
Winter Semester 2022/23: Guest Professor for Art History and Curatorial Studies![](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/13657/foto_loretta.500x500.jpeg)
Loretta Fahrenholz
Winter Semester 2023/24: Guest Professor for Fine Arts![Photo: Albrecht Fuchs](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/7839/cyprien_gaillard_foto_albrecht_fuchs.500x500.jpeg)
Cyprien Gaillard
Winter Semester 2020/21: Guest Professor for Fine Arts![](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/9517/ayse_gulec_no_credit-1.500x500.png)
Ayşe Güleç
Winter Semester 2021/22–Summer Semester 2022: Research Fellow![](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/11442/kasmani-profile.500x500.jpg)
Omar Kasmani
Winter Semester 2022/23–Summer Semester 2023: Guest Professor for Fine Arts![](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/12574/photo_of_vera_mey_by_steve_lawton_2022_100.500x500.jpg)
Vera Mey
Summer Semester 2023: Guest Professor for Curatorial Studies and Art History![](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/5532/jnachtigall_2019.500x500.jpg)
Jenny Nachtigall
Summer Semester 2019–Winter Semester 2020/21: Guest Professor for Art Theory![](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/12577/ruth_noack_portrait.500x500.jpeg)
Ruth Noack
Summer Semester 2023: Guest Professor for Curatorial Studies and Art History![](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/13660/foto_imaabasi_okon.500x500.png)
Ima-Abasi Okon
Winter Semester 2023/24: Guest Professor for Fine Arts![](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/10374/rahraw-_omarzad.500x500.png)
Rahraw Omarzad
Summer Semester 2022: Guest Professor for Fine Arts (Gasthof)![](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/10364/raad-_walid_no_credit.500x500.jpeg)
Walid Raad
Summer Semester 2022: Visiting Artist![Photo: Paula Court](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/11564/00_asad_raza_portrait_photo_credit_laura_cooper.500x500.jpg)
Asad Raza
Winter Semester 2022/23: Guest Professor for Fine Arts![Slavs and Tatars, Molla Nasreddin the antimodern, 2012, fibreglass, lacquer paint, steel, 180 × 180 × 80 cm, Installation view at Yinchuan Biennale, 2016.](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/12580/s_t_molla-nasreddin-the-antimodern_2012_view.500x500.jpeg)
Slavs and Tatars
Summer Semester 2023: Guest Professors for Fine Arts![](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/11561/unknown.500x500.jpeg)
Monika Szewczyk
Winter Semester 2022/23–Summer Semester 2023: Research Fellow![Photo: Diana Pfammatter](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/9513/2021-sungtieu-portrait-lores-01_edit.500x500.jpg)
Sung Tieu
Winter Semester 2021/22: Guest Professor for Fine Arts![](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/13651/foto_helena_uambembe_2200x2200.500x500.jpg)
Helena Uambembe
Winter Semester 2023/24: Visiting Artist / Fine ArtsHonorary
Professors
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Kasper König
Cultural Education![Photo: Renate Brandt](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/8444/christa_naher-_wolfegg_2020_--_c_renate_brandt.500x500.jpg)
Christa Näher
Fine Arts![Photo: Anders Clausen](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/1448/20130929-img_7295_anders_clausen_2013.500x500.jpeg)
Wolfgang Tillmans
Fine ArtsResearch Fellow
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