The artist Tania Bruguera lives and works in Havana, Cuba. For over twenty years, she has developed time-based works and situations that engages with issues surrounding institutional power, borders, and migration. Deploying a wide range of media, which has included performance, film, sculpture, and teaching, Bruguera more recently has described her approach as Arte Útil (Useful art) to underline her common interests in art and activism. In 2015, together with a group of fellow activists, she founded the Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt (INSTAR). INSTAR will be part of the forthcoming documenta fifteen's lumbung network in 2022. Bruguera’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana. She has participated in numerous international exhibitions including: documenta 11, Kassel (2002); Performa, New York (2015); the Venice Biennale (2001, 2005 and 2009); the Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2000 and 2008), Istanbul Biennial (2003); the São Paulo Biennial (1996) and the Havana Biennale (1994) and has had exhibitions at major museums and art institutions in Europe and the United States, including MoMA PS1, New York (2018); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2013); Tate Modern, London (2012); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2018); MoMA/PS1 (2003 and 2008); Kunsthalle Wien (2006); Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (2003); KW, Berlin (2001) and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1994) among others. In 2021, Bruguera together with INSTAR received the Arnold Bode Prize.
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

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
Artistic Research and Curatorial StudiesVisiting 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
Claudia Biner
German Class
Milena Büsch
Photo Lab
Juliet Carpenter
Production Studio
Anja Cooymans
Print Workshop
Daniel Fort
Sound Studio
Panagiotis Fotiadis
German Class
Claudia Gaida
German Class
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