Keren Cytter creates films, performances, drawings, and photographs on topics of social alienation, language representation, and the function of individuals in predetermined cultural systems through experimental modes of storytelling and human perception. Mostly characterized by a non-linear, cyclical logic, Cytter’s films consist of multiple layers of images, conversation, monologue, and narration systematically composed to undermine linguistic conventions and traditional interpretation schemata. Recalling amateur home movies and video diaries, these montages of impressions, memories, and imaginings are poetic and self-referential in composition. Cytter creates intensified scenes drawn from everyday life in which the overwhelmingly artificial nature of the situations portrayed is echoed by the very means of their production of storytelling and human perception. Selected solo exhibitions include: Ludwig Forum Aachen (2022) Kunstmuseum Winterthur (2020), Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, and Museion Bolzano (both in 2019) Künstlerhaus - Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz (2016) Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2015), the Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Copenhagen State of Concept Athens (both in 2014), Tate Modern Oil Tanks, London (2012), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and München Kunstverein (both in 2011), Kunsthaus Baselland, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (all in 2010). Cytter was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021. Cytter has also initiated several interdisciplinary art festivals such as The Last Summer Fest in Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38, New York (2015) and many more, and is also the author of five novels. In 2008, Cytter also formed a dance company called D.I.E NOW (Dance International Europe NOW), consisting of 5 non-professional dancers, performing in different institutions across Europe and the US, such as the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in London, The Kitchen in New York, Tramway in Glasgow, and Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin.
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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