Hassan Khan is an artist, musician and writer. In 2018, he was appointed Professor of Fine Arts at the Städelschule. His work engages with familiar, shared conditions and undisclosed personal references to arrive at forms that demand their own specific medium: ones that suggest imagined communities, raise fundamental questions, channel conditions simmering under the surface, seduce and alienate, engage with expectations, pose mysteries as well as help to rearticulate our experiences with shifting structures of power. Hassan Khan was the winner of the Silver Lion of the 57th Venice Biennale (2017). His works shown at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Villa Medici, Rome; Venice Biennale; Beirut Art Center; MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; Kodak Passageway, D-CAF, Cairo; Secession, Vienna; SALT, Istanbul; and dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel. As a performing musician, his appearances include Ruhrtriennale, Essen; Intonal Festival, Malmö; Guggenheim, New York; and Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. Hassan Khan’s publications include Twelve Clues (2016), The Agreement (2011) and Nine Lessons Learned from Sherif El Azma (2009).
Professors

Monika Baer
Fine Arts
Daniel Birnbaum
Philosophy and Art Education
Gerard Byrne
Film, Vice-Rector
Barbara Clausen
Curatorial Studies, Rector
Isabelle Graw
Art History and Art Theory
Hassan Khan
Fine Arts
Philippe Pirotte
Art History and Curatorial Studies
Tobias Rehberger
Sculpture
Willem de Rooij
Fine Arts
Haegue Yang
Fine ArtsGuest
Professors

Dora Budor
Fine Arts
Andrea Fraser
Fine Arts
Saodat Ismailova
Fine Arts![Diego Marcon, Fritz, 2025 [Production Image], video, CGI animation, color, sound, duration: 12 min. 30 sec, looped. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the Artist](https://cms.staedelschule.de/site/assets/files/17110/diegomarcon_fritz_2024_courtesy_the_artist.500x500.jpeg)
Diego Marcon
Fine ArtsResearch Fellow

Zasha Colah
Winter Semester 2025/26–Summer Semester 2026: QuiS Visiting Research FellowPast Faculty

Éric Baudelaire
Summer Semester 2023 and Summer Semester 2024: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Hannah Black
Winter Semester 2021/22: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Tania Bruguera
Summer Semester 2021: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Francisco Camacho Herrera
Summer Semester 2023: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Barbara Casavecchia
Winter Semester 2023/24–Summer Semester 2024: QuiS Visiting Research Fellow
Keren Cytter
Summer Semester 2022: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Clémentine Deliss
Winter Semester 2022/23: Guest Professor for Art History and Curatorial Studies
Gürsoy Doğtaş
Winter Semester 2024/25–Summer Semester 2025: QuiS Visiting Research Fellow
Loretta Fahrenholz
Winter Semester 2023/24: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius
Summer Semester 2022–Winter Semester 2024/25: Cohabitation
Cyprien Gaillard
Winter Semester 2020/21: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Ayşe Güleç
Winter Semester 2021/22–Summer Semester 2022: Research Fellow
Flaka Haliti
Summer Semester 2024: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Thomas Hirschhorn
Summer Semester 2025: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Judith Hopf
Winter Semester 2008-Summer Semester 2025: Professor for Fine Arts
Mahret Ifeoma Kupka
Winter Semester 2024/25: Guest Professor for Art Theory
Omar Kasmani
Winter Semester 2022/23–Summer Semester 2023: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Kasper König
Rector 1989–2000, Honorary Professor 2001–2024
Ghislaine Leung
Winter Semester 2024/25-Summer Semester 2025: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Vera Mey
Summer Semester 2023: Guest Professor for Curatorial Studies and Art History
Jenny Nachtigall
Summer Semester 2019–Winter Semester 2020/21: Guest Professor for Art Theory
Ruth Noack
Summer Semester 2023: Guest Professor for Curatorial Studies and Art History
Camille Norment
Summer Semester 2024: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Ima-Abasi Okon
Winter Semester 2023/24: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Henrik Olesen
Summer Semester 2024: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Rahraw Omarzad
Summer Semester 2022: Guest Professor for Fine Arts (Gasthof)
Vera Palme
Summer Semester 2025: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Nira Pereg
Summer Semester 2024: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Walid Raad
Summer Semester 2022: Visiting Artist
Yasmil Raymond
Summer Semester 2020-Summer Semester 2024: Professor for Curatorial Studies, Rector
Asad Raza
Winter Semester 2022/23: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Amy Sillman
Summer Semester 2015– Summer Semester 2020: Professor for Fine Arts
Slavs and Tatars
Summer Semester 2023: Guest Professors for Fine Arts
Monika Szewczyk
Winter Semester 2022/23–Summer Semester 2023: Research Fellow
Sung Tieu
Winter Semester 2021/22: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Helena Uambembe
Winter Semester 2023/24: Visiting Artist / Fine ArtsHonorary
Professors

Christa Näher
Fine Arts