Jakob Schillinger appointed university professor of art theory

Jakob Schillinger is an art historian specialising in modern and contemporary art. His work focuses on theories of the digital and media, discourses of criticality, and ecological approaches in art and art theory. 

He studied visual communication and fine art in Berlin and New York, as well as art history at Princeton. In 2021, he received his doctorate from Princeton University with a transdisciplinary thesis on the production conditions of post-conceptual painting in Cologne in the 1980s and 1990s. This was followed by a postdoctoral position at Princeton, a research fellowship at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, a visiting professorship in cultural theory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, and the directorship of the Menzel-Dachs at the Institute for Art and Visual History at Humboldt University in Berlin.

In addition to his academic work, Jakob Schillinger has worked internationally as a curator, including as a curatorial fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art, as co-curator of the survey exhibition based in Berlin (2011), and as curator of the Ludlow 38 exhibition space at the Goethe-Institut New York. He directed the School for Worldly Companions at documenta 13.

Jakob Schillinger's writings have appeared in magazines such as October, Texte zur Kunst and Artforum. He is currently working on a book on environments of art and the environmentalisation of computation. He is looking forward to working at the Angewandte!