Barbara Casavecchia is a freelance writer, independent curator and educator based in Venice and Milan, where she teaches at Brera and NABA art academies. She graduated in art history from the University of Pavia. She is currently chief editor at Mousse magazine. Her feature articles, essays and reviews–often focused on Italian contemporary art, visual cultures, and feminisms–have appeared in Frieze, Art Agenda, Art Review, La Repubblica, Flash Art, Kaleidoscope, Nero, South/documenta 14, Spike, among others, as well as in several artist books and catalogues. In 2018, she curated the exhibition Susan Hiller. Social Facts at OGR, Turin. For the same institution, in 2018 and 2019, she curated the educational project OGR YOU(Young Adults); it included a series of public lecture/performances by contemporary artists, preceded by workshops behind closed doors for a group of students (age 18-20), selected via open call. Artists invited: Roberto Fassone, Angelo Plessas, Slavs&Tatars, Ambra Pittoni and Paul-Flavien Enriquez-Sarano, Gernot Wieland, Eva and Franco Mattes, Invernomuto, Adelita Husni-Bey, Francesco Fonassi, Adam Christensen, Massimo Grimaldi, Elisa Giardina Papa, Luca Garino, Sophie Jung, Diego Marcon. In 2021-23, she led the transdisciplinary curatorial fellowship The Current III Mediterraneans: 'Thus waves come in pairs’ for TBA21-Academy (including two semesters of the online, free-access OCEAN/UNI Imagine the Ocean Dry as Lavender. Mediterraneans as hotspot for climate change and adaptation) and curated the eponymous exhibition at Ocean Space, Venice (April 22-November 5, 2023), with new commissions by Simone Fattal and Petrit Halilaj & Álvaro Urbano. She is the editor of the book Thus Waves Come in Pairs. Thinking with the Mediterraneans (2023, Sternberg Press and TBA21).
Barbara Casavecchia’s fellowship at Städelschule is generously made possible by Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst with the QuiS funding program.
Professors

Monika Baer
Fine Arts
Daniel Birnbaum
Philosophy and Art Education
Gerard Byrne
Film, Vice-Rector
Barbara Clausen
Curatorial Studies, Rector
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
Tobias Rehberger
Sculpture
Willem de Rooij
Fine Arts
Haegue Yang
Fine ArtsGuest
Professors

Mahret Ifeoma Kupka

Ghislaine Leung
Research Fellow

Gürsoy Doğtaş
Winter Semester 2024/25–Summer Semester 2025: QuiS Visiting Research FellowPast Faculty

Éric Baudelaire
Summer Semester 2023 and Summer Semester 2024: 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
Barbara Casavecchia
Winter Semester 2023/24–Summer Semester 2024: QuiS Visiting Research Fellow
Keren Cytter
Summer Semester 2022: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Clémentine Deliss
Winter Semester 2022/23: Guest Professor for Art History and Curatorial Studies
Loretta Fahrenholz
Winter Semester 2023/24: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Cyprien Gaillard
Winter Semester 2020/21: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Ayşe Güleç
Winter Semester 2021/22–Summer Semester 2022: Research Fellow
Flaka Haliti
Summer Semester 2024: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Omar Kasmani
Winter Semester 2022/23–Summer Semester 2023: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Kasper König
Rector 1989–2000, Honorary Professor 2001–2024
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
Camille Norment
Summer Semester 2024: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Ima-Abasi Okon
Winter Semester 2023/24: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Henrik Olesen
Summer Semester 2024: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Rahraw Omarzad
Summer Semester 2022: Guest Professor for Fine Arts (Gasthof)
Nira Pereg
Summer Semester 2024: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Walid Raad
Summer Semester 2022: Visiting Artist
Yasmil Raymond
Sommer Semester 2020-Sommer Semester 2024: Professor for Curatorial Studies, Rector
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
Sung Tieu
Winter Semester 2021/22: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Helena Uambembe
Winter Semester 2023/24: Visiting Artist / Fine ArtsHonorary
Professors

Christa Näher
Fine Arts