Jakob Schillinger’s research focuses on European and North-American art and cultural heritage in their media-technological, social, ecological and global contexts. He received his Ph.D. in Art History and Interdisciplinary Humanities (joint degree) from Princeton in 2021. He is the director of the Menzel-Dach at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin’s Department of Art and Visual History. Previous positions include Professor of Cultural Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg AdBK, Research Coordinator of the interdisciplinary projects ‘Reduction’ and ‘Models’ at ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Dean of the School for Worldly Companions at dOCUMENTA (13), curator of MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38 in New York, co-curator of based in Berlin (2011), and Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2009). His work has been published in the MIT Press journal October, Texte zur Kunst, and Artforum.
Selected Publications
“Oswald Wiener on Dandyism,” October 170 (October 2019): 31–50.
“Service Economy,” in Martin Kippenberger: Bitteschön Dankeschön, edited by Susanne Kleine, translated by Fiona Elliott, 154–84. Bonn: Bundeskunsthalle Bonn; Cologne: Snoeck, 2019.
“Vorsprung Durch Reinkarnation,” in Martin Kippenberger: Hand Painted Pictures, 9–26. New York: Skarstedt, 2017.
“Interiority Complex: The Art of Peter Wächtler,” Artforum International 53.03 (November 2014).
“Distanced Inhabitation: Loretta Fahrenholz’ Stylistic Promiscuity and Mode of Production,” in Prize of the Böttcherstraße in Bremen, ed. Eva Fischer-Hausdorf and Julia Bunnemann (Kunsthalle Bremen, 2014).
The Sixth Year, drama in five episodes; written by Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda; directed by Rick Alverson, Dustin Guy Defa, Loretta Fahrenholz, Nick Mauss, Ken Okiishi, and Alex Ross Perry. DVD with 24-page booklet by Jakob Schillinger (Sternberg Press, 2014).
“User Friendly: Jakob Schillinger on Digital Labor,” Artforum International 51.3 (November 2012).
“Between Art and Public – A Roundtable Discussion with Natasa Ilic, Maria Lind, Nicolaus Schafhausen, and Jakob Schillinger,” Texte zur Kunst 86 (Summer 2012).
“7th Berlin Biennale, Various Venues,” Artforum International 50.10 (Summer 2012).
“The Prosumer Version – Art from the Masses,” Flash Art International 128 (October/November, 2011).
“Recessional Aesthetics: An Exchange (Letter to the Editors),” October 135 (Winter 2011).