Yasmil Raymond is an author and curator and since April 2020 Rector of the Städelschule and Director of Portikus. Raymond was Associate Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, since 2015. On the occasion of MoMA’s reopening, she curated site-specific commissions with artists Kerstin Brätsch, Experimental Jetset, Goshka Macuga, Yoko Ono, Philippe Parreno, and Haim Steinbach. Prior to MoMA, Raymond served as Curator of the Dia Art Foundation for six years. During her tenure at Dia, she organized acclaimed exhibitions and projects, including Allora & Calzadilla: Puerto Rican Light (2015); Thomas Hirschhorn: Gramsci Monument (2013); and Jean-Luc Moulène: Opus + One (2011), among others. She was Associate Curator at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, from 2004 to 2009, and a Senior Critic in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Pennsylvania from 2009 to 2019. Raymond received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999, and an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, in 2004.
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 Fellow

Barbara Casavecchia
Winter Semester 2023/24–Summer Semester 2024: QuiS Visiting Research FellowVisiting Artist

Helena Uambembe
Visiting Artist / Fine ArtsTeachers
Liberty Adrien & Carina Bukuts
Portikus
Eric Bell
Photo Lab
Milena Büsch
Photo Lab
Juliet Carpenter
Production Studio
Anja Cooijmans
Print Workshop
Daniel Fort
Sound Studio
Gülsüm Güler
Photo Lab
Sandra Havlicek
Production Studio
Jacqueline Jurt
Print Workshop
Yasuaki Kitagawa
Sculpture Workshop
Karl Kliem
Production Studio
Marius Moll
Film and Video Lab
Layla Nabi
Sculpture Workshop
Nino Pezzella
Drawing
Harald Pridgar
Computer Workshops
Peyman Rahimi
Print Workshop
Nermine Saadeh
Production Studio
Bernhard Schreiner
Film and Video Lab
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
Monika Szewczyk
Winter Semester 2022/23–Summer Semester 2023: Research Fellow