Nikolaus Hirsch is a curator, architect, editor, and educator. 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 director of Städelschule and Portikus in Frankfurt and has taught at the Architectural Association in London and the Institute for Applied Theater Studies at Giessen University. His work includes Bockenheimer Depot Theater (with William Forsythe), unitednationsplaza (with Anton Vidokle), Cybermohalla Hub (New-Delhi, with Raqs Media Collective), “Do We Dream Under The Same Sky” (with Rirkrit Tiravanija, Art Basel / LUMA), and “Don´t Follow The Wind” in the contaminated zone of Fukushima. Hirsch has curated “Gwangju Folly” for the Gwangju Biennale (2013), “Housing Question” at the HKW in Berlin (2015) and the German Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale in Venice (2021). He is the editor of the Critical Spatial Practice series at Sternberg Press and founder of e-flux architecture.