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

Monika Baer
Fine Arts and Painting
Daniel Birnbaum
Philosophy and Art Education
Gerard Byrne
Film
Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius
Cohabitation
Isabelle Graw
Art History and Art Theory
Judith Hopf
Fine Arts
Hassan Khan
Fine Arts
Philippe Pirotte
Art History and Curatorial Studies
Yasmil Raymond
Rector, Professor for Curatorial Studies
Tobias Rehberger
Sculpture
Willem de Rooij
Fine Arts
Haegue Yang
Fine Arts, Vice-RectorGuest
Professors

Loretta Fahrenholz
Fine Arts
Niklas Maak
Fine Arts – Frankfurter Prototyp
Ima-Abasi Okon
Fine ArtsHonorary
Professors

Kasper König
Cultural Education
Christa Näher
Fine Arts
Wolfgang Tillmans
Fine ArtsResearch Fellow

Barbara Casavecchia
Winter Semester 2023/24–Summer Semester 2024: QuiS Visiting Research FellowVisiting Artist

Helena Uambembe
Visiting Artist / Fine ArtsTeachers
Liberty Adrien & Carina Bukuts
Portikus
Eric Bell
Photo Lab
Milena Büsch
Photo Lab
Juliet Carpenter
Production Studio
Anja Cooijmans
Print Workshop
Daniel Fort
Sound Studio
Gülsüm Güler
Photo Lab
Sandra Havlicek
Production Studio
Jacqueline Jurt
Print Workshop
Yasuaki Kitagawa
Sculpture Workshop
Karl Kliem
Production Studio
Marius Moll
Film and Video Lab
Layla Nabi
Sculpture Workshop
Nino Pezzella
Drawing
Harald Pridgar
Computer Workshops
Peyman Rahimi
Print Workshop
Nermine Saadeh
Production Studio
Bernhard Schreiner
Film and Video Lab
Katharina Schücke
Photo Lab
Sebastian Stöhrer
Wood and Ceramics Workshop
Silke Wagner
Print Workshop
Stefan Wieland
Portikus
Wolfgang Winter
Sculpture Workshop
Christian Zickler
Print Workshop
Past Faculty

Eric Baudelaire
Summer Semester 2023: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Hannah Black
Winter Semester 2021/22: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Tania Bruguera
Summer Semester 2021: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Francisco Camacho Herrera
Summer Semester 2023: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Keren Cytter
Summer Semester 2022: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Clémentine Deliss
Winter Semester 2022/23: Guest Professor for Art History and Curatorial Studies
Cyprien Gaillard
Winter Semester 2020/21: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Ayşe Güleç
Winter Semester 2021/22–Summer Semester 2022: Research Fellow
Omar Kasmani
Winter Semester 2022/23–Summer Semester 2023: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Vera Mey
Summer Semester 2023: Guest Professor for Curatorial Studies and Art History
Jenny Nachtigall
Summer Semester 2019–Winter Semester 2020/21: Guest Professor for Art Theory
Ruth Noack
Summer Semester 2023: Guest Professor for Curatorial Studies and Art History
Rahraw Omarzad
Summer Semester 2022: Guest Professor for Fine Arts (Gasthof)
Walid Raad
Summer Semester 2022: Visiting Artist
Asad Raza
Winter Semester 2022/23: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Slavs and Tatars
Summer Semester 2023: Guest Professors for Fine Arts
Monika Szewczyk
Winter Semester 2022/23–Summer Semester 2023: Research Fellow