Wolfgang Tillmans lives and works in Berlin, Germany and London, UK. He was Professor of Fine Arts at Städelschule from 2003 until 2009. Since the early 1990s, his works have epitomized a new kind of subjectivity in photography, pairing intimacy and playfulness with social critique and the persistent questioning of existing values and hierarchies. Tillmans studied at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design. In 2000, Tillmans received the Turner Prize. He was appointed a member of the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 2013. The artist has operated the non-profit exhibition space Between Bridges since 2006. In 2018 Tillmans received the Kaisering in Goslar, which was accompanied by a solo-exhibition. Since the early 1990s, Tillmans's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at international institutions, including the Irish Museum of Fine Art, Dublin; Fondation Beyerle, Riehen/Basel; Tate Modern, London; Kunstverein in Hamburg and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
Professors

Monika Baer
Fine Arts
Daniel Birnbaum
Philosophy and Art Education
Gerard Byrne
Film, Vice-Rector
Barbara Clausen
Curatorial Studies, Rector
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
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Dora Budor
Fine Arts
Thomas Hirschhorn
Fine Arts
Ghislaine Leung
Fine Arts
Vera Palme
Fine ArtsResearch Fellow

Gürsoy Doğtaş
Winter Semester 2024/25–Summer Semester 2025: QuiS Visiting Research FellowPast 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
Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius
Summer Semester 2022–Winter Semester 2024/25: Cohabitation
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
Mahret Ifeoma Kupka
Winter Semester 2024/25: Guest Professor for Art Theory
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
Amy Sillman
Summer Semester 2015– Summer Semester 2020: 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
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Christa Näher
Fine Arts