Ruth Noack, an art historian, writer, teacher, and exhibition maker, is best known to the global art world as curator of documenta 12. Between 2019 and 2022, she acted as Executive Director and Curator of The Corner at Whitman-Walker in Washington, D.C., a cultural center embedded in a LGBTQ and HIV-focussed healthcare institution. There, she produced The Mental Body, on aesthetic acts of self-creation and self-care, Stay Alive to Life, on resilience in times of COVID, See You There, on making history at Whitman-Walker and, with DYKWTCA, and When We First Arrived..., an exhibition which amplified testimonies of children detained at the US-Mexico border through the works of 123 visual artists (in collaboration with DYKWTCA). Noack’s cycle of sketch exhibitions Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life was shown in Athens, Prague, Beijing and at Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart (2019/20). Since 1994 she curated numerous exhibitions together with Roger M.Buergel, amongst them Things We Don’t Understand at Generali Foundation, Vienna and a cycle on Foucault’s concept of governmentality in Vienna, Miami and Rotterdam. Serving as Head of Curating Contemporary Art at The Royal College in London (2012/2013), Noack has taught at universities and academies for more than 20 years. She has also given lectures frequently, widely, and internationally. She has authored more than 50 essays on art and theory, as well as a monograph on Sanja Iveković, and edited Agency, Ambivalence, Analysis. Approaching the Museum with Migration in Mind (2013). In 2002 and 2003, she was President of the Austrian AICA.
Professors

Monika Baer
Fine Arts
Daniel Birnbaum
Philosophy and Art Education
Gerard Byrne
Film
Barbara Clausen
Curatorial Studies, Rector
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
Tobias Rehberger
Sculpture
Willem de Rooij
Fine Arts
Haegue Yang
Fine ArtsGuest
Professors

Mahret Ifeoma Kupka

Ghislaine Leung
Past Faculty

Éric Baudelaire
Summer Semester 2023 and Summer Semester 2024: 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
Barbara Casavecchia
Winter Semester 2023/24–Summer Semester 2024: QuiS Visiting Research Fellow
Keren Cytter
Summer Semester 2022: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Clémentine Deliss
Winter Semester 2022/23: Guest Professor for Art History and Curatorial Studies
Loretta Fahrenholz
Winter Semester 2023/24: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Cyprien Gaillard
Winter Semester 2020/21: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Ayşe Güleç
Winter Semester 2021/22–Summer Semester 2022: Research Fellow
Flaka Haliti
Summer Semester 2024: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Omar Kasmani
Winter Semester 2022/23–Summer Semester 2023: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Kasper König
Rector 1989–2000, Honorary Professor 2001–2024
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
Camille Norment
Summer Semester 2024: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Ima-Abasi Okon
Winter Semester 2023/24: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Henrik Olesen
Summer Semester 2024: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Rahraw Omarzad
Summer Semester 2022: Guest Professor for Fine Arts (Gasthof)
Nira Pereg
Summer Semester 2024: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Walid Raad
Summer Semester 2022: Visiting Artist
Yasmil Raymond
Sommer Semester 2020-Sommer Semester 2024: Professor for Curatorial Studies, Rector
Asad Raza
Winter Semester 2022/23: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Slavs and Tatars
Summer Semester 2023: Guest Professors for Fine Arts
Monika Szewczyk
Winter Semester 2022/23–Summer Semester 2023: Research Fellow
Sung Tieu
Winter Semester 2021/22: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Helena Uambembe
Winter Semester 2023/24: Visiting Artist / Fine ArtsHonorary
Professors

Christa Näher
Fine Arts
Wolfgang Tillmans
Fine ArtsResearch Fellow
