Participant of Panel 2: Jörg Heiser (UdK Berlin)
Jörg Heiser (UdK Berlin)
Jörg Heiser is an art critic, teacher, curator, and musician. At UdK, he is the Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, and the Director of the Institute for Art in Context. For twenty years, he worked as an editor for frieze magazine. His books include All of a Sudden. Things that Matter in Contemporary Art (2008), and Double Lives in Art and Pop Music (2019). Since 2004 he has curated numerous group exhibitions including Romantic Conceptualism (2007-8, Kunsthalle Nuremberg and Bawag Foundation Vienna, catalogue), and he was co-curator of the Busan Biennale 2018 in South Korea (catalogue). The second album of the band La Stampa, a member of which he is, was released in 2018 by Vinyl Factory, London. His latest book is Freiheit ist kein Bild (2021).