Helena Uambembe is an Angolan-South African artist whose work interrogates the dyadic relationship between the political (world politics) and the domestic (personal politics). Drawing from personal and familial history, Uambembe maps the ideological and intimate space created by the historical and colonial links between Angolan, Southern African and global history. Born in South Africa in 1994, her Angolan parents fled the Angolan civil war back in 1975 and settled in the embattled Pomfret with other families of the 32 Battalion. This complex family history (itself a disruption of current accepted narratives of post-colonial Africa), the 32 Battalion, Pomfret and her Angolan heritage are dominant themes in her multi-disciplinary approach. In 2022, Uambembe was awarded the Baloise Art Prize 2022 for her installation What you see is not what you remember, shown at Art Basel, Statements section. She is currently based in Berlin, where she is fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
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
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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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