Anselm Franke

Anselm Franke is a curator and writer based in Brussels and Berlin. He is the Artistic Director of Extra City Center for Contemporary Art in Antwerp, curator of the Taipei Biennial 2012, and he was a co-curator of Manifesta 7 in Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy (2008). Previously, Franke acted as curator of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin until 2006, where he organized exhibitions such as Territories. Islands, Camps and Other States of Utopia (2003); Image Archives (2001/2002); The Imaginary Number (2005, together with Hila Peleg), and B-Zone – Becoming Europe and Beyond (2006) and he co-developed the project No Matter How Bright the Light, the Crossing Occurs At Night (2006). Other projects include “Animism” at Extra City, Antwerp and Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (2010); and “Mimétisme” at Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium (2008). He has edited and published various publications and is a contributor to magazines such as Metropolis M, Piktogram, and Cabinet.