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Anselm Franke works as curator and critic, he lives in Berlin.

In the late nineties Franke has worked as an assistant director and producer for various theatre and film projects. For directors such as Christoph Schlingensief he realised projects for institutions like the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz Berlin, the Berlin Biennale, the Steirischer Herbst, the Schauspielhaus Hamburg and various film and TV projects for Alexander Kluge.

Together with Hannah Hurtzig he developed new formats of thematic installations and public congresses for the Hamburg Kammerspiele ("Filiale für Erinnerung auf Zeit" www.filialefuererinnerung.de, 2001) and the Volksbühne in Berlin (International Mobile Academy, The Refugee: Services to Undesirables, 2002).

Since 2001 he is a curator at Berlin's KW Institute for Contemporary Art (www.kw-berlin.de) where he co-organised events like the congress "Suchbilder" (www.suchbilder.de) and realised exhibitions such as the series "Image Archives" (among others with Harun Farocki, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Christoph Keller) and "Productions" (with Bureau d'Etudes, Christoph Schäfer, Scheppe-Böhm-Pizzaroni, Gianni Motti, Tara Herbst/Veronika Gerhardt/Jochen Heilek and Com&Com) among various other projects and solo-exhibitions.

In 2002 and 2003 Franke has been a lecturer on contemporary artistic practices at the Freie Universität Berlin, together with Sandra Umathum.

In 2002 - 2004 Franke has been a curator of ‚ErsatzStadt', an initiative of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes in cooperation with the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz (together with Hannah Hurtzig, Jochen Becker, Stephan Lanz; www.ersatzmedia.info), where he curated and co-curated projects like the "ErsatzRadio" (June 2003) a series of dialogues on "Architecture as Strategic Weapons" within the project "KIOSK/ KNOCK for useful knowlegde" and the congress "Total Space - the USA Patriot Act" (July 2003).

In January 2003 he curated "Production Unit" at Arte Fiera, Bologna, including artists such as Thomas Demand, Tacita Dean, Monica Bonvicini, among others. He co-curated the Festival "Art & Crime" (together with Sylvia Sasse and Stefanie Wenner) for the opening of the new Hebbel am Ufer theatre in Berlin (www.kuv.dpklinik.de, October 2003).

Franke curated the exhibition "Territories" at KW Berlin (July 2003), in collaboration with Eyal Weizman, Rafi Segal and Stefano Boeri. Among smaller presentations and seminars, the exhibition travelled in different versions to the Witte de With center for contemporary art in Rotterdam (www.wdw.nl/ENG/text/projects/territories/, 2003) and the Malmö Konsthall (www.konsthall.malmo.se) and will be shown at Index, Stockholm and Bezalel Tel Aviv in September 2004. May 2004 he organised the exhibition "An uneven exchange of power" by Armin Linke at New York's Storefront for Art and Architecture (www.storefrontnews.org/archives/2004_06_02_index.html).

Anselm Franke has widely lectured at institutions such as the IUAV Venice, the Bezalel Academy Tel Aviv, the University of the Witswaterand, Johannesburg, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome, the Bauhaus Dessau, The House of the World Cultures, Berlin, among others.