Anselm Franke is a German

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, and writer. He was the head of Visual Art and Film at the

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from 2013–2022.

Life and career

Franke was born in

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(

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). He holds a PhD in Visual Cultures/Center for Research Architecture at

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. He started his career as assistant director to

Christoph Schlingensief Christoph Maria Schlingensief (24 October 1960 – 21 August 2010) was a German theatre director, performance artist, and filmmaker. Starting as an independent underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later staged productions for theatres and festiva ...

. Franke worked as a curator of interdisciplinary research projects and festivals in several theatres, including: the Volksbühne am Rose-Luxemburg-Platz and

Hebbel am Ufer The Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) is a German theater company and international performance center in Berlin. It has three physical locations (HAU1, HAU2, and HAU3), and a digital theatre (HAU4). History HAU was founded in 2003, before the 2003/04 season, ...

in Berlin until 2006, often in collaboration with Hannah Hurtzig. From 2001–2006, he worked at

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, where he curated numerous exhibitions, among them, ''Territories'', along with

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, Rafi Segal and

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in 2004 and ''No matter how bright the light, the crossing occurs at night'', along with artists Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Ines Schaber and Judith Hopf in 2005. Later, he was artistic director at Kunsthal Extra City in Antwerp from 2006–2010, where he curated exhibitions such as ''Self-Fashion Show'' (2007), ''Mimétisme'' (2008) and ''Drawing Documents'' (2009). His multi-chapter exhibition project, ''Animism'', shown in Bern, Antwerp, Vienna and Berlin (2010-2014). In 2013, Franke was listed among the 100 most powerful people in the artworld in the yearly ranking by the

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Selected exhibitions

* 2017–2020 ''Love and Ethnology. The Colonial Dialectics of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte)'', Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Goethe-Institut, with chapters in Lisbon, Salvador de Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Dakar, Santiago de Chile, New York * 2018 ''Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War'', HKW Berlin * 2017 ''Interrupted Survey : Fractured Modern Mythologies'', ACC Gwangju * 2012 ''Modern Monsters. Death and Life of Fiction'', Taipei Biennale * 2010–2014 ''Animism'', Extra City and MuHKA Antwerpen, Kunsthalle Bern, Generali Foundation Vienna, HKW Berlin, Ashkal Alwan Beirut, Ilmin Museum Seoul, E-flux New York, OCAT Shenzhen

Selected publications

* ''Territories. Islands, Camps and Other States of Utopia'', ed. * ''B-Zone-Becoming Europe and Beyond'' * ''Animism (Volume I)'', ed. * ''Secret Modernity – Selected Writings and Interviews 1981–2009'', ed. * ''Ape Culture / Kultur der Affen'' * ''Neolithische Kindheit: Kunst in einer falschen Gegenwart, ca. 1930''

References

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