Nikolaus Hirsch is an architect, curator, editor, and educator whose transdisciplinary spatial practice merges diverse formats and disciplines into a distinctive approach. Currently he is the artistic director of the architecture museum CIVA in Brussels where he co-curated exhibitions such as 'Marcel Broodthaers – The Architect is Absent', 'Pre-Architectures', 'Style Congo' (with Sammy Baloji), and 'Sick Architecture' (with Beatriz Colomina). Previously he was the Dean of Städelschule and Director of the Portikus Kunsthalle in Frankfurt and has taught at the Architectural Association in London, the Institute for Applied Theater Studies at Giessen University, and Columbia University in New York. He is editor of the Critical Spatial Practice series at Sternberg Press, and the founder of e-flux architecture. His work includes the Dresden Synagogue, Hinzert Document Center, Bockenheimer Depot Theater (with William Forsythe), unitednationsplaza (with Anton Vidokle), European Kunsthalle, Cybermohalla Hub (New-Delhi, with Raqs Media Collective), the pavilion 'Do We Dream Under The Same Sky' (with Rirkrit Tiravanija, Art Basel / LUMA Arles), and 'Becoming Monument' in the contaminated zone of Fukushima. Hirsch has curated 'ErsatzStadt' at Volksbühne Berlin (2005), 'Cultural Agencies' (Istanbul, 2009/10), numerous exhibitions at the Portikus, the Folly project for the Gwangju Biennale (2013), 'Real DMZ' 'Housing Question' at the HKW in Berlin (2015) and the German Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale in Venice (2021). He is the author of the books 'On Boundaries' (2007), 'Institution Building' (2009), 'Cybermohalla Hub' (2012).
