Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp

Horst Bredekamp is Professor of Art & Image History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and was Director of the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung from 2012 to 2018.

In 2000, he founded the project The Technical Image at the Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Techniques. Bredekamp has been a Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg 2003 to 2012, from 2008 to 2016 he has directed the DFG (German Research Foundation) Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Picture Act and Embodiment, which merged into the project Picture Act and Body Knowledge with the foundation of the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung.

From October 2015 to August 2018 Bredekamp was one of the Founding Directors of the Humboldt Forum.

As Senior Deputy Director Bredekamp leads the Cluster »Matters of Activity« together with Peter Fratzl, Claudia Mareis and the Director Wolfgang Schäffner.