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

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
Fellows

Monika Szewczyk
Winter Semester 2022/23–Summer Semester 2023: Research FellowTeachers

Liberty Adrien & Carina Bukuts
Portikus
Eric Bell
Photo Lab
Karl Kliem
Production Studio
Marius Moll
Film and Video Lab
Nino Pezzella
Drawing
Bernhard Schreiner
Film and Video LabAdditional Teachers
Milena Büsch
Photo Lab
Juliet Carpenter
Production Studio
Anja Cooymans
Print Workshop
Daniel Fort
Sound Studio
Sandra Havlicek
Production Studio
Jacqueline Jurt
Print Workshop
Yasuaki Kitagawa
Sculpture Workshop
Harald Pridgar
Computer Workshops
Peyman Rahimi
Print Workshop
Nermine Saadeh
Production Studio
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