生于德国科堡，先后在柏林艺术大学和柏林自由大学学习艺术和人文学科，并于1987年至1995年在柏林社会科学中心担任研究助理。曾担任柏林当代艺术博物馆的执行董事和艺术总监。过去他也曾居住和生活在北京，并作为北京画廊周的创始人活跃在中国当代艺术现场。最近他在清华大学担任副研究员。现为《燃点》杂志总裁、2022年广州三年展的策展人之一、国际艺术评论家协会成员和国家现当代美术馆专业委员会成员。
Born in Coburg, Germany. He studied arts and humanities at the Berlin University of the Arts and then at the Freie Universität Berlin. From 1995 to 2004 he was living in New York. Returning to Berlin in 2004, he created a German language art magazine on the platform of artnet and became the executive manger Germany for artnet and from 2008 he has executive and artistic director of the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, a museum for contemporary art in Berlin. He has also lived and lived in Beijing from 2014 to 2020 in the and has been active in the Chinese contemporary art scene as the founder of Beijing Gallery Week. Most recently, he worked as an associate researcher at Tsinghua University and as founding director of the China Arts& Sciences Project in Jingdezhen. He is currently the president of Randian magazine, was one of the curators of the Guangzhou Triennale 2022, and a member of AICA, the International Art Critics Association and CIMAM, the International Committee of Modern and Contemporary Art Museum.
