Simon Sheikh

Dr. Simon Sheikh is a curator and theorist. He is Professor of Critical Theory and Media Philosophy at HfG Karlsruhe. He is a correspondent for springerin, Vienna, and a columnist for e-flux Journal, New York. Recent publications include Former West: Art and the Contemporary After 1989, 2016 (with Maria Hlavajova) and Curating After the Global, 2019 (with Paul O’Neill, Lucy Steeds and Mick Wilson) and Glossary of Urban Practice: Towards a Manifesto, 2021 (with Jochen Becker and Anna Schäffler). He is currently working on a book about art and apocalypse entitled It’s After the End of the World.