Born 1965 in Munich, Germany

Astrid Wege is a curator and critic. Her articles, exhibitions and publications analyze art as a form of cultural criticism, whether in relation to feminism with her project "Oh boy, it’s a girl!" (1994), gender and science in "Sex – Vom Wissen und Wünschens" (2001-2002) or time and value in "Ökonomien der Zeit" (2002-2003). Between 1995 and 1999 she was editor of Texte zur Kunst. Between 2003 and 2006 she was deputy director of Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, and, among others, curator of the first comprehensive retrospective of Charlotte Posenenske. Exhibitions and programmes since then include “Resonances, or How One Reality can be Understood Through Another” in cooperation with the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2006/07), “Jeanne Faust”, Galerie Museum Bozen, “Transforming Memory. The Politics of Images” (2007) in Cacak, Serbia, “Moirés. Andreas Fogarasi, Katya Sander, Urtica” in Luneburg 82008). Since 2007 she is programming director of the European Kunsthalle, Cologne, and one of the directors of the Kunsthalle’s ongoing cooperation with Ludlow 38/Goethe Institute, New York. She teaches at the Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Cologne.