Anselm Franke

Head of Visual Art and Film at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin where he developed, among others, the exhibitions “The Whole Earth” (co-curated with Diedrich Diederichsen), “After Year Zero” (co-curated with Annett Busch) and “Ape Culture” (co-curated with Hila Peleg). He curated the 2014 Shanghai Biennial titled “Social Factory” and the 2012 Taipei Biennial, titled “Modern Monsters, Death and Life of Fiction.” His critically acclaimed exhibition “Animism” has been traveling worldwide since its inception in 2010 and meanwhile has been shown in Antwerp, Bern, Vienna, Berlin, New York, Shenzhen, Seoul and Beirut. Franke was artistic director of Extra City Kunsthal in Antwerp from 2006 to 2010.