Lecturers

Current lecturers 2023/2024


The Lecturers hold a degree within the fields of theory, practice and teaching. Various lecturers are working in responsible positions within Exhibitions or Educational Programmes:

  • Paolo Bianchi, Curator and Cultural Publicist
  • Clare Davies, Associate curator Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) NYC
  • Adriana Domรญnguez Velasco, Curator, Head La Capsula exhibition space, Zurich
  • Prof. Dr. Anselm Franke, Curator, Head Curatorial Studies program, ZHdK
  • Dr. Sรธnke Gau, Cultural Scientist, Curator, Senior Researcher, Lecturer Master Art Education and Master Transdisziplinaritรคt, ZHdK
  • Nida Ghouse, Autor, Curator, Teacher for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and Visiting Lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Humanities at Princeton Universitรคt
  • Elisa Giuliano, Curator, Researcher
  • Gila Kolb, Art Mediator, Head Forschungsprofessur Fachdidaktik der Kรผnste PH Schwyz
  • Sarah Lewis-Cappellari, cultural producer and PhD candidate in Theater and Performance Studies and Eugene V. Cota-Robles fellow at the University of California
  • Cuauhtรฉmoc Medina Gonzรกlez, Ph.D., Art critic, curator and historian
  • Ana Teixeira Pinto, Cultural Scientist, Guestprofessor AdBK Nuremberg, Tutor Dutch Institute
  • Dr. Antonio Scarponi, Architect and Designer, Teacher Master Art Education Curatorial Studies and Bachelor Design, ZHdK
  • Nadja Schmid, Critic, Artistic Researcher, Curator
  • Prof Dr. Wendy Meryem Kural Shaw, former Professor for the Art History of Islamic Cultures, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Freie Universitรคt Berlin
  • Nina Tabassomi, Director Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Curator and Theaterscientists
  • Prof. Thomas Sieber, Cultural Scientist and Mediator
  • Kandis Williams, Artist, Founder Cassandra Press

Current guest lecturers 2023/2024

  • Michelle Akanji, Co-Director Gessnerallee, Zurich
  • Andreas Fannin, Historian, Zรผrich Kolonial
  • Damian Fopp, Curator Museum fรผr Gestaltung
  • Ayse Gรผleรง, Mediator, Researching Activist on Anti-Rassism, Migration, Art, Art Mediation
  • Renate Hรถllwart, Mediator, Founder and Member Trafo.K
  • Rรฉmi Jaccard, Director Museum Strauhof, Zรผrich
  • Patrizia Keller, Artistic Lead Kunsthalle Arbon
  • Susanne Kรถnig, Founder, Head of Kรถnig Bรผro
  • Prof. Jesmael Mataga, Associate Professor of Heritage Studies, Sol Plaatje University Kimberly, South Africa
  • Sarah Mรผhlebach Curatorial Assistent Kunsthaus Aarau
  • Team โ€žDas Wandbild muss wegโ€œ, Vera Wyser, Angela Wittwer, Esther Poppe
  •  Ramaya Tegegne, Artist
  • Maja Wismer, Head Contemporary Art after 1960 Kunstmuseum Basel
  • Geraldine Wullschleger, Curator Kunsthalle Thurgau

Lecturers, Experts and Mentors in the past

  • Prof Dr Sigrid Adorf, Art Scientist, Professor of Contemporary Art and Culture Analysis and Deputy Director of the Institute for Cultural Studies, ZHdK
  • Dr Jean-Christophe Ammann, Art Historian and Curator
  • Nicola von Albrecht, mediation curator at Museum fรผr Gestaltung Zรผrich
  • Prof Serge von Arx, Architect, Artistic Director Scenography Norwegian Theatre Academy/ร˜stfold University College, Fredrikstad
  • Dr Sebastian Baden, Curator, Director Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt am Main
  • Silke Ballath, art-mediator and cultural agent for creative schools in Berlin
  • Antonia Banz, Dipl. Designerin FH in Innenarchitektur
  • Leonie Baumann, Head of the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee
  • Joachim Baur, historian, cultural scientist and curator, co-founder of the exhibition agency: Die Exponauten. Ausstellungen et cetera
  • Dr Annette Bhagwati, Director Museum Rietberg, Zurich
  • Rolf Bossard, projects at Verein Kunstraum Baden
  • Christian Brรคndle, Director Museum fรผr Gestaltung Zurich
  • Roger M. Buergel, Independent Curator, former Director Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich and former director documenta 12 in Kassel
  • Dr Kathleen Bรผhler, Chief Curator/Head of Collection Exhibitions, Kunstmuseum Bern
  • Jonas Bรผrgi, Participation Photo Collection, Museum fรผr Kommunikation, Bern
  • Dr Philippe Bรผttner, Conservator of the Collection, Kunsthaus Zรผrich / Alberto Giacometti Foundation
  • Marie-Antoinette Chiarenza, Daniel Hauser, artists of the collective RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co), Zurich
  • Binna Choi, Director Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, Utrecht; Co-artistic director Singapore Biennale 2022
  • Damian Christinger, independent Curator, Zรผrich
  • Pauline Curnier Jardin, artist
  • Dr. Kris Decker, KWI International Fellow and Associate to the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen
  • Frรฉdรฉric Dedelley, Product- and Industrial Designer, Zurich
  • Prof Dr Clรฉmentine Deliss, Global Humanities Professor of Art History, University of Cambridge; Associate Curator KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
  • Julian Denzler, Curator Contemporary Art, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen
  • Christoph Doswald, Independent Curator and former Chairman of AG KiรถR Kunst im รถffentlichen Raum City of Zurich
  • Esther Eppstein, Artist and Art Educator
  • Dr Roger Fayet, Head of the Schweizerisches Institut fรผr Kunstwissenschaften (SIK-ISEA). President of the Commission of the Assembly of the Swiss National Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM)
  • Gaby Fierz, Curator, Art Educator, Ethnologist
  • Yulia Fisch, Project Manager, HEK (Haus der Elektronischen Kรผnste), Basel
  • Camilla Franz, Researcher, Art Educator
  • Cynthia Gavranic, Art Mediator mediator / Art Education, Migros Museum fรผr Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
  • Andreas Geis, Head Cultural Promoation, Stiftung fรผr Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Winterthur
  • Chiara Giardi, Researcher, Curator
  • Jasmin Glaab, Founding Curator kunsthallekleinbasel
  • Eva Grรคdel, Project Director Community Building, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
  • Prof Dr Anna Greve, Director Focke-Museum, Bremen State Museum of Art and Cultural History
  • Irene Grillo, Independent Curator and Curator Exhibitions Gebert Stiftung fรผr Kultur at *Altefabrik, Rapperswil-Jona
  • Dr. Avery F. Gordon, Author, Prof. emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Visiting Faculty Fellow in the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, co-host of the radio program "No Alibis."
  • Christine van Haaren, Head of Education and Outreach, Berlinische Galerie โ€“ Landesmuseum fuฬˆr Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur
  • Dr Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen, Head of the Department of Cultural History, Universalmuseum Joanneum Graz
  • Dr Matthias Haldemann, Head and Curator at Kunsthaus Zug
  • Julia Hagenberg, Head of Education at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duฬˆsseldorf
  • Martin Hartung, doctoral fellow at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich
  • Beat Hรคchler, Head of the Alpines Museum der Schweiz
  • Martin Hartung, PhD student at the chair of Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, Institute for History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich
  • Bruno Heller, Art Mediator, Curator, Director Ortsmuseum Zollikon
  • Desirรฉe Hieronimus, Art Mediator, Curator, Deputy Co-Director Kunst(zeug)haus Rapperswil
  • Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, Author, Curator, Philosopher, artistic director of Akademie der Kรผnste der Welt (ADKDW)
  • Stefanie Hoch, Curator Kunstmuseum Thurgau in Kartause Ittingen
  • Claudia Hummel, Art Educator, Researcher at Institut Kunst im Kontext at University of the Art Berlin (UdK)
  • Annemarie Huฬˆrlimann, Art historian, Exhibition curator
  • Andres Janser, Curator Museum fรผr Gestaltung Zurich
  • Prof Mona Jas, Artist and Art Mediator, Kunsthochschule WeiรŸensee Director of Galerie Susanne Kรถnig
  • Jane Jin Kaisen, visual artist, filmmaker, and Professor of the School of Media Arts, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. 
  • Carole Kambli, art historian
  • Ralf Keller, Curator and Registrar, Museum im Bellpark Kriens
  • Anke Kempkes, curator
  • Blaise Kirschner, artist
  • Yana Klichuk, Head of Education and Learning, Manifesta
  • Pius Knรผsel, Head of the Volkshochschule Zรผrich, former director of Pro Helvetia 
  • Susanne Kรถnig, Art Mediator, Director of Galerie Susanne Kรถnig
  • Annette Krauss, Artist, Lecturer, Author
  • Dr Thomas Laely, Curator; until 2019 Deputy Director of the Vรถlkerkundemuseum Universitรคt Zuฬˆrich
  • Prof. Dr Nora Landkammer, Art Educator, Professorship in โ€žFachdidaktik-Vermittlung-Forschungโ€œ, Kunstuniversitรคt Linz
  • Maria Lind, curator, author, lecturer; cultural officer Swedish Embassy, Moscow
  • Guido Magnaguagno, Art historian, former Vice Director Kunsthaus Zรผrich and former Director Museum Tinguely in Basel
  • Prof Dr Thomas D. Meier, Head of the Zurich University of the Arts
  • Lรฉontine Meijer-van Mensch, Director ethnographic collection saxony, in Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Director GRASSI Museum fรผr Vรถlkerkunde zu Leipzig, Museums fรผr Vรถlkerkunde Dresden and Vรถlkerkundemuseum Herrnhut
  • Renate Menzi, Designer, Curator Designcollection, Museum fรผr Gestaltung Zurich
  • Prof Dr Carmen Mรถrsch, Art Educator, Cultural Scientist, Professor of Art Didactic, Kunsthochschule Mainz
  • Katharina Morawek, Associate at Institut Nouvelle Suisse (INES)
  • Christine Mรผller, Employee Cultural Promotion, Stiftung fรผr Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Winterthur
  • Prof. Dr. Volker Pantenburg, Professor of Filmstudies University of Zurich, co-founder of the Harun Farocki Institut Berlin
  • Franziska Mรผller-Reissmann, Lecturer BA Design, Coordinator of the ZHdK Material Archive
  • Dr Roswitha Muttenthaler, Museologist, Curator Technisches Museum Wien
  • Alena Nawrotzki, Cultural scientist, former Director โ€œVermittlung & Programmeโ€, Migros Museum fรผr Gegenwartskunst, Zรผrich
  • Dr Bonaventure Ndikung, Founder and Art Director of SAVVY Contemporary e.V., Berlin
  • Martina Oberprantacher, Director Kunst Meran Merano Arte, Meran
  • Esther Poppe, Art Education, Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt am Main
  • Kristine PreuรŸ, Director of Arts Education, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg
  • Prof Dr phil Sophia Prinz, Professor for Design theory and History of Design, ZHdK
  • Alain Rappaport, Scenographer and Architect
  • Basil Rogger, Lecturer Trends & Identity, BA Design, Z-Modules, MA Art Education and MA Transdisciplinarity โ€“ Dossier Events
  • Christian Rohner, Head of Exhibitions and Digital Museum, Museum fรผr Kommunikation Bern
  • Severin Ruฬˆegg, Head of Collection, Stiftung fรผr Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Winterthur
  • Prof. Angeli Sachs, Arthistorian, Curator and Museologist. Head of MA Art Education Curatorial Studies 2009-2022
  • Rijin Sahakian, writer, artist, founder of Sada, a non-profit project conducting arts education, advocacy, and production programs for Baghdad-based artists. 
  • Petra Schmid, Head of Publications, Museum of Design Zurich
  • Dr. Heiko Schmid, Art and Media scientist, Curator, President of the Commission Art in Public Space (KiรถR) of the City of Zurich
  • Dr Anna Schรผrch, Art educator, Lecturer and researcher in the field of Art Education, ZHdK
  • Dr phil Gesa Schneider, Head of the Literaturhaus, Co-Head of Strauhof, Zรผrich
  • Sally Schonfeld, Artist, Zรผrich
  • Dr Mario Schulze, Cultural Scientist, Junior Fellow Collegium Helveticum, Zurich
  • Dr Lisa Spanka, Cultural and Media Historian, University of Bremen
  • Caroline Spicker, Head of Education and Mediation, Museum Rietberg
  • Claudia Spinelli, Director Verein Kunstraum Baden
  • Lรฉonie Sรผess, graduate of Master Art Education Curatorial Studies, research associate in the field of Cultural Critique, ZHdK
  • Prof Dr Bernhard Tschofen, Co-Head of Insitute, Professor Kulturwissenschaftliche Raumforschung
  • Dr Daniel Tyradellis, Philosoph and Curator, Berlin
  • Amanda Unger, Art and Cultural educator, project assistant/ public relations Kulturagent.innen Switzerland for creative schools
  • Dr Edward van Voolen, Art Historian, Curator and Rabbinical Director, Abraham Geiger Kolleg at the University of Potsdam
  • Mirjam Varadinis, Curator and Head of the Collection of Prints and Drawings, Kunsthaus Zรผrich
  • Isaac Chong Wai, artist
  • Ismahan Wayah, Scientific Curator for Diversity, Frankfurt Historical Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • Lars Willumeit, Curator, Musรฉe de l'Elysรฉe, Lausanne
  • Susann Wintsch, Curator and Lecturer, ZHdK  
  • Sarah Wirth, Curator, Co-Head of the Museum Sankturbanhof, Sursee
  • Simon Wรผrsten Marin, Independent Curator, Zurich
  • Zairong Xiang, researcher, author of โ€žQueer Ancient Waysโ€œ
  • Dr. Carine Zaayman, artist, curator, researcher und Research coordinator (Research Center for Material Culture, Amsterdam)
  • Luisa Ziaja, Curator for Contemporary Arts, 21er Haus Wien / Leitungsteam ecm โ€“ Universitรคt fรผr angewandte Kunst Wien
  • Prof Dr Gesa Ziemer, Cultural Studies, Professor for Cultural Theory and Practice (within the Department โ€œKultur der Metropoleโ€) and Vice-President of the Research- Department at the HafenCity Universitรคt Hamburg, Hamburg and Zurich
  • Prof. Dr Maren Ziese, Art historian, Professor for Kulturpรคdagogik at Paderborn University
  • Sarah Zuฬˆrcher, Curator, Freiburg/Fribourg