We extend a warm welcome to our new visiting professor at the Graduate School, Jan Verwoert, who will give advice and support to our new fellows for the next two years.

Jan Verwoert is a critic and writer on contemporary art and cultural theory, based in Berlin. He is a contributing editor of frieze magazine, his writing has appeared in different journals, anthologies and monographs. He was a professor for theory at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, he taught at the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam and was a visiting professor at the Royal Academy, London.