December 2016 – November 2020
Deputy Chairman at the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
June 2017 – August 2020
Member of the Board of Trustees at the Adolf-Hölzel-Stiftung, Stuttgart-Degerloch
October 2014 – May 2017
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Adolf-Hölzel-Foundation, Stuttgart-Degerloch
Winter semester 2014
Lecturer for image studies in the cultural management program at the University of Education, Ludwigsburg
Since May 2013
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Institute for Subjective Experience and Research (ISER) at MSH Medical School Hamburg
Summer semester 2012
Lecturer for image studies in the cultural management program at the University of Education, Ludwigsburg
Summer semester 2010
Lecturer for image studies in the cultural management program at the University of Education, Ludwigsburg
March 2009 – March 2015
Member of the Board, Gesellschaft für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft („Society for Interdisciplinary Image Sciences“)
2007 – 2011
Member of the scientific advisory board of the institute “New impulses for aesthetic education” in Perchtoldsdorf near Vienna
Since October 2007
Member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM)
March – June 2007
Senior Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Sciences, Vienna
May 2006 – Sep. 2011
Chair of the International Master Course “Preservation of New Media and Digital Information” at the State Academy of Arts, Stuttgart
Dec. 2006 – Nov. 2009
Associated professor at the Graduate College Image, Body, Medium at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe
August 2002 – July 2003
Implementation of a research project on production, presentation and preservation of media art under the EU program “Culture 2000” together with hard-ware media kunstverein, Dortmund, Montevideo / TBA, The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam and C3, Center for Culture & Communication, Budapest
Summer 2001
External examiner to the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Escola dos Artes, Porto (Portugal)
July 2000 – March 2004
Project manager of the model project funded by the German Federal Government Commission on “Visual Competence in the Media Age” at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (https://www.vk.abk-stuttgart.de/)
Oct. 1999 – Sept. 2019
Professor for Contemporary Art History, Aesthetics and Art Theory at the State Academy of Arts, Stuttgart
Summer 1999
Lecturer for “net.art – forms of artistic practice in the Internet” in the Department of Cultural Informatics at the University of Lueneburg
Oct. 1997 – Sept. 1999
Professor for History of Art at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Academy of Visual Arts), Leipzig
Oct. 1996 – Sept. 1997
Assistant professor at the Institute of Art History, Ruprecht-Karls- University Heidelberg
April – Sept. 1996
Guest professor for Contemporary Art History at the University of Saarland, Saarbrücken
1995/96
Guest professor for Contemporary Art History at the Department of Art and Art History, University Kassel
1995
Lecturer for art history and media theory at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe
1994 – 1995
Assistant professor at the Institute of Art History, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg
15. June 1994
Successful habilitation (post-doctoral qualification) by the historical faculty of the Ruprecht Karl University Heidelberg with the habilitation thesis: Paolo Veronese. Kunst als soziales System („Paolo Veronese. Art as Social System“)
1994
Guest Professor for art theory and contemporary art history at the Department of Fine Arts, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
1993/94
Lecturer for contemporary art theory at the Department of Fine Arts, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
1989 – 1994
Assistant professor for history of art at the Institute of Art History, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
1988/1989
Research visits to Italy, Great Britain and the United States of America
April – November 1987
Assistant curator at the Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim
1987 – 1989
Postgraduate scholarship by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council), Bonn on Effect and knowledge of pictures. The function of the implicit viewer in art history
1986 – 1987
Assistant professor for history of art at the Institute of Art History, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
April 1986
Doctoral thesis in art history under Prof. Dr. Peter Anselm Riedl on the topic System und Wirkung. Fragen der Interpretation und Bedeutung zeitgenössischer Kunst. Ein systemtheoretischer Ansatz” (“System and effect. Questions of the interpretation and meaning of contemporary art. A system-theoretical approach“)
1978 – 1986
Employed as an art teacher at the private High School for boys and girls, Heidelberg College in Heidelberg
1975 – 1986
Study of art history, philosophy and psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich and the Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg
July 1977
First State examination for art education at German High Schools. Thesis: Das Jüngste Gericht von Michelangelo. Versuch einer systematischen und methodenkritischen Analyse. (The Last Judgement by Michelangelo. Attempt at a systematic and method-critical analysis.)
1973-1977
Study of painting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich under Professor Jürgen Reipka
1964-1973
School student at the Max-Planck-Gymnasium München-Pasing, Weinbergerstr. 29. Abitur on 8. Juni 1973.
17.11.1953
Born in Munich, Germany