Isabelle Graw lives and works as an art critic in Berlin. She is Professor of Art History and Art Theory at the Städelschule and founded together with Daniel Birnbaum the Institute for Art Criticism in summer 2003, which focuses on the practice of criticism and its manifold relationships to other disciplines. The institute regularly invites art historians, philosophers, critics, and artists. It benefits from the discourse produced by the professors of the school and many Frankfurt-based art critics and academics. Together with Stefan Germer, she founded quarterly magazine Texte zur Kunst in Cologne in 1990. In 2018, Isabelle Graw published The Love of Painting: Genealogy of a Success Medium (Sternberg Press, Berlin). Other publications include High Price. Art between the Market and Celebrity Culture (2010), Texte zur Kunst. Essays, Reviews, Interviews (2011), Thinking through Painting: Reflexivity and Agency beyond the Canvas (co-editor, 2012) and Über Malerei. Eine Diskussion (with Peter Geimer, 2012). In December 2018 Isabelle Graw was awarded the VW-Stiftung OPUS MAGNUM grant, which enables her an unabridged commitment to the research project "The Value of Art".
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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