lives and works in Bremen, Germany and Pierrefeu sur Nice, France.

Horst Griese is a freelance curator and art critic. He co-founded the Bremen Künstlerhaus in the late Eighties and in addition to his projects there
(1991-1997) he has worked on independent projects including Aussendienst (2000), and the public art projects Do All Oceans Have Walls (1998) and No Man is an Islandl (2003), (the latter two co-curated with Eva Schmidt). Since 2001 he is the curator of the project series Lichthaus Plus Neue
Kunst, commissioning new works from international artists in reaction to the marked social, economic and architectural changes taking place in the formerport area of Bremen.
In 2005 he curated the EU-commissioned project Changing Habitats, combining different projects of public art and practices of curating in different
european regions like Edinburgh, Malmö, Utrecht, Riga, Budapest, Bremen and others. In the same year he curated the exhibition A Lucky Strike, featuring artistic contributions wich comment and interfear into city life and city planning (co-curated by Gabriele Mackart). He now works on a new series of public art projects in Bremen, varying a qoutation of Antonio Muntandas: Perception Requires Involvement. In 2007 he starts another series of artistic collaborations regarding art in the countryside in the Valley of Esteron near Nice. Horst Griese is a member of the „Landesbeirat für Kunst
im Öffentlichen Raum“ in Bremen und im „Wissenschaftlichen Beirat des Zentrums für Baukultur" (b.zb)“.