Omar Kasmani is a social anthropologist with a background in cultural studies and architecture. His research practice is situated across the study of contemporary Islamic life-worlds, queer and affect theory. He writes on critical notions of intimacy, migrant be/longing and the feeling of thinness in the post-colonial European contemporary. He is the author of Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy and Saintly Affects in Pakistan (Duke University Press, 2022) and Thin Attachments: Writing Berlin in Scenes of Daily Loves (Capacious, 2019). His current book project on migration and belonging turns to autotheory to bring personal memoir to bear on an affective geography of Berlin. Since 2015, he has been associated with the Collaborative Research Center 1171, Affective Societies at Freie Universität Berlin. Born and raised in Karachi, Omar regards himself as a Berliner-by-love.
Professors

Monika Baer
Fine Arts and Painting
Daniel Birnbaum
Philosophy and Art Education
Gerard Byrne
Film
Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius
Fine Arts, 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

Clémentine Deliss
Art History and Curatorial Studies
Niklas Maak
Fine Arts – Frankfurter Prototyp
Asad Raza
Fine ArtsHonorary
Professors

Kasper König
Cultural Education
Christa Näher
Fine Arts
Wolfgang Tillmans
Fine ArtsResearch Fellows

Monika Szewczyk
Art HistoryVisiting Author

Omar Kasmani
Creative WritingTeachers

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
Nooshin Askari
Sculpture Workshop
Milena Büsch
Photo Lab
Juliet Carpenter
Production Studio
Anja Cooymans
Print Workshop
Daniel Fort
Sound Studio
Jacqueline Jurt
Print Workshop
Yasuaki Kitagawa
Sculpture Workshop
Harald Pridgar
Computer Workshops
Peyman Rahimi
Print Workshop
Nermine Saadeh
Production Studio
Paula Schneider
Printshop
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

Keren Cytter
Summer Semester 2022: Guest Profesor for Fine Arts
Rahraw Omarzad
Summer semester 2022: Guestprofessor for Fine Arts (Gasthof)
Walid Raad
Summer Semester 2022: Visiting Artist
Hannah Black
Winter Semester 2021/22: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Ayşe Güleç
Winter Semester 2021/22–Summer Semester 2022: Research Fellow
Sung Tieu
Winter Semester 2021/22: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Tania Bruguera
Summer Semester 2021: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Cyprien Gaillard
Winter Semester 2020/21: Guest Professor for Fine Arts