Speakerbiografien

Nikolaus Biedermann

Manager Digital Operations & Strategy

Nikolaus Biedermann has been active in the art market for over 10 years. After studying economics at the University of Cologne, he began his career at VAN HAM Art Auctions, where he built up digital business areas. Today, he is Manager Digital Operations & Strategy at Galerie Esther Schipper. He develops the AI strategy and its implementation, leads digital transformation processes, and produces data-driven analyses as a basis for strategic decision-making.

Photo: © Alexandra Thiede

Maximilian Brazel

LL.M. (Cape Town), dtb rechtsanwälte

Maximilian Brazel is an attorney specializing in art and foundation law. He advises artists, galleries, collectors, as well as private and public institutions active in the cultural sector—on contract drafting, matters of intellectual property, and on succession planning and the safeguarding of artistic estates and legacies.

In Berlin, he is one of four attorneys at the law firm dtb rechtsanwälte, which specializes in art and wealth and has been comprehensively advising cultural practitioners and art market stakeholders on legal and strategic matters since 2004.

Photo: © Joachim Gern

Ana María Caballero

Artist + Poet

Ana María Caballero is a multi-award-winning Colombian-American poet and transdisciplinary artist whose work explores embodiment, memory and the cultural implications of emerging technologies. She develops digital poetics grounded in analog generativity, treating language, the body and computation as co-compositional forces. She's the first living poet to sell a poem at Sotheby’s and a Lumen Prize winner for her series Being Borges. Caballero is a Harvard graduate, the author of 8 books and cofounded theVERSEverse.

Photo: © Luis Gaspar

Maximilian Egger

Junior Partner bei KORNFELD Galerie

Maximilian Egger has been part of Galerie KORNFELD since 2023 and has been working in the international art market since 2019. He studied Art Business as well as Modern & Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s in London. As a representative of the next generation of the gallery landscape, he focuses on developing a future-oriented gallery model. AI and digital technologies play a central role in this, as they shape his generation and are an integral part of everyday life. The decisive question is not their continued existence, but the responsible and creative handling of their opportunities and risks.

Photo: © Maximilian Egger

Kerstin Gold

Strategin an der Schnittstelle von Kunst und Technologie

Kerstin Gold is a strategy consultant working at the intersection of art and technology. With many years of expertise in the art market and a focus on technological innovation, she supports galleries and institutions in digital transformation processes and the development of digital business models, and also advises arttech start-ups and accelerator programs. As a speaker, lecturer, and author of the ART+TECH Report, she has been actively shaping the discussion on technological change in the art market for years.

Photo: © Anna Wasilewski

Alistair Hudson

ZKM Scientific-Artistic Director and CEO

Since 1 April 2023, Alistair Hudson has been Artistic-Scientific Director of ZKM | Karlsruhe. He is an internationally active curator with extensive expertise in the relationship between art, technology, and society. From 2018 to 2022, he was Director of Manchester Art Gallery and The Whitworth, as well as Professor of Arte Útil. With the concept of the “useful museum,” he defines museums as places of social responsibility. His methodology is rooted in the interplay of culture, politics, technological progress, and interactions with our digitized environment.

Photo: © ZKM | Videostudio // Andy Koch

Jo Lawson-Tancred

Journalist, Critic and Author of „AI & The Art Market“

Jo Lawson-Tancred is an experienced art journalist at Artnet News. She has a special interest in applications of artificial intelligence in art and the art world and is the author of „AI and the Art Market“, published by Lund Humphries. She has also written for the Financial Times, Apollo magazine, BBC Culture, and the Guardian.

Photo: © Jo Lawson-Tancred

Dr. Christina Landbrecht

Programmleitung Kunst, Schering Stiftung

Dr. Christina Landbrecht is a curator and art historian. From 2009 to 2012, she was a curatorial trainee and served as research associate to the director of the Berlinische Galerie, the State Museum for Modern Art, Photography, and Architecture. From 2013 to 2017, she worked as a research associate at Humboldt University of Berlin. Her doctoral dissertation, Artistic Research. Problems, Potentials, Perspectives, was published by Konstanz University Press. Since 2018, she has headed the Art program area at the Schering Foundation, which initiates projects at the intersection of art and science.

Photo: © Iveta Rysava – Polaris Berlin

Nicole L’Huillier

Artist 

Nicole L’Huillier is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher from Chile. Her practice focuses on the exploration of sound and vibration as materials through which to investigate questions of agency, identity, collectivity, and the activation of a “vibrational” imagination. Her work encompasses installations, sonic sculptures, custom-built listening and sounding devices, performances, experimental compositions, as well as membranous poems and texts. She studied architecture and earned her PhD in Media Arts & Sciences from MIT in 2022.

Photo: © Patricia Chaparro

Alexandra Lier

KI-Expertin (Prompting, KI-Bild- & Video-Produktion)

AI expert Alexandra Lier, also known as AI-Alex, has been working for years at the intersection of technology, imagery, and storytelling. In 2019, she founded an AI start-up, becoming one of the early adopters. Her roots in photography, directing, and creative direction give her a precise understanding of how AI is transforming visual processes. She demonstrates what is possible when practical expertise and AI competence truly complement each other.

Photo: © Alexandra Lier

Wolf Lieser

Gründer und Geschäftsführer von DAM Projects

Wolf Lieser founded his first gallery in Wiesbaden in 1993. He first encountered digital art in 1987, which led to the founding of the online museum Digital Art Museum (DAM) in 1998. From 1999 to 2002, he was involved with the Colville Place Gallery in London. In 2003, he moved to Berlin to develop a market for digital art. In 2005, DAM initiated the DAM DIGITAL ART AWARD |DDAA|. His book Digital Art was published in 2009. Further galleries followed in Cologne and Frankfurt. Lieser also gives international lectures at universities and conferences.

Photo: © Stefan Maria Rother

Dr. Clara Meister

Curator

Clara Meister is an internationally active curator with a focus on language, translation, and music. She earned her PhD at HFBK Hamburg on the speaking voice in visual art. Meister curated, among others, the first institutional solo exhibition of Camille Henrot and the first solo exhibition of Nancy Holt in Germany. She was co-founder of the exhibition collective SOUNDFAIR and Resident Curator at Ludlow 38, New York. She worked as curatorial assistant, curator, and project manager for AI at the Gropius Bau Berlin. Meister is the director of the Hoffmann Collection, Berlin.

Photo: © Gilbert Bachour

Johanna Neuschäffer

Co-Founder OFFICE IMPART

Johanna Neuschäffer studied art history and economics and is co-founder of Galerie OFFICE IMPART, which she established in 2018 together with Anne Schwanz. She has been active in the art market for over 15 years and is a co-founder of the research initiative ART+TECH Report.

Photo: © Charlie Spiegelfeld

Julia Rosenbaum

Kunsthistorikerin und Kunstberaterin

Julia Rosenbaum is an independent art historian and art consultant. After studying art history in Berlin and Rome, she has been working for the art engagement of Deutsche Bank since 2005. With extensive knowledge and networks in contemporary art, Julia Rosenbaum has been working as an art consultant for private and corporate clients since 2015. In 2014, she founded the format StudioVisits, which, through exclusive studio visits and personal conversations with artists, offers individual perspectives on artistic processes, work content, and the working conditions of creative practice.

Photo: © Axel Mertens

Agnessa Schmudke

Assistant Curator, Lead Live and Outreach Programmes, LAS Art Foundation

Agnessa Schmudke is a curator and art historian working at the intersection of contemporary art, technology, and society. As part of the LAS Art Foundation, she develops projects that connect art with scientific and technological questions. She has collaborated with artists such as Pierre Huyghe, Laure Prouvost, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Lawrence Lek, and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg on large-scale installations and experimental formats that address topics such as artificial intelligence, interspecies thinking, gaming, and quantum technologies.

Photo: © Gene Glover

Prof. Dr. Roberto Simanowski

Kultur- und Medienphilosoph, FU Berlin, Autor “Sprachmaschinen”

Roberto Simanowski completed his PhD on mass literature around 1800 and his habilitation on art in digital media. He has served as a professor of cultural and media studies at Brown University in Providence, the University of Basel, and the City University of Hong Kong, as well as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard and Vanderbilt University in Nashville. He lives as a publicist in Berlin and Rio de Janeiro. His book Todesalgorithmus received the Tractatus Prize for Philosophical Essay Writing in 2020, and his new book, Sprachmaschinen. Eine Philosophie der Künstlichen Intelligenz, was published at the end of 2025 by C.H. Beck.

Photo: © Prof. Dr. Roberto Simanowski

Annika von Taube

Publizistin und Cultural Producer

Annika von Taube is a publicist, strategist, and cultural producer with a focus on art and technology. She writes about the impact of digitalization and new technologies on the art world (including as author of the art market column “Click & Collect” in Monopol magazine), develops art mediation formats with a focus on talks and conferences, and advises companies on integrating art as a strategic companion to technological developments.

Photo: © Howard Sheronas

Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit

Wissenschaftlicher Direktor am Deutschen Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz

Dr. Hans Uszkoreit is Scientific Director at the Deutschen Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) in Berlin. In addition, he advises companies on the development and use of AI technologies. For more than 40 years, he has worked in Germany, the USA, and China as a professor, research director, consultant, and company founder in the field of AI. He has founded and led several AI startups and served as Chief AI Advisor for Lenovo. Uszkoreit’s research results in AI and computational linguistics are documented in over 250 publications. In 2002, he was elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences.

Photo: © Carina Kircher