Kai Vöckler koos ervoor om zich, na jaren als beeldend kunstenaar actief te zijn geweest, te profileren als uitgever, curator en docent over kunst en urbanisme.
Founder member of Archis Interventions; program director South Eastern Europe (SEE) Network. Urban development projects in South Eastern Europe. Urban research projects in Europe and Asia. Publisher, editor, exhibitions curator and lecturer on art and urbanism themes. PhD in Art History on urban spatial images. Lectureships at various European universities and art academies. Professional expertise in landscape, architectural and artistic competitions and design projects, both solo and in teams of architects. Currently Endowed Professor for Creativity in Urban Contexts at the Offenbach University of Art and Design (HfG Offenbach), Germany. Spokesman project mo.de – the mobility design project / LOEWE research cluster Infrastructure – Design – Society.
Spokesman project mo.de – the mobility design project / LOEWE research cluster Infrastructure – Design – Society.
2018
Curator (with Christian Holl and Felix Nowak) of the exhibition »Living the Region – Rhine\Main« at DAM – German Architecture Museum Frankfurt.
2014
Curator (with Lilet Breddels, Arjen Osterman) of the exhibition »The Good Cause. Architecture of Peace – Divided Cities«, Architekturmuseum der TU München / Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.
since 2012
Steering and coordination comittee member for Offenbach Masterplan.
2012
PhD in Art History; Doctoral thesis on »The City and Its Imaginary – Urban Spatial Images«.
since 2011
Spokesman Architecture Summer Rhine-Main. Memeber of steering comittee.
since 2010
Endowed Professor at the Offenbach University of Art and Design, Germany. 2014 Founder member of Designinstitut für Mobilität und Logistik (with Prof. Georg-Christof Bertsch, Prof. Peter Eckart).
2009
Curator of the exhibition »In der Zukunft leben!«, DAZ / German Architecture Center. 2010: neues Museum Nürnberg; Kunsthalle Darmstadt.
since 2008
Program director Archis Interventions / South Eastern Europe. Projects in Kosovo, Romania, Cyprus and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
2008
Curator of the exhibition »Balkanology. New Architecture and Urban Phenomena in South Eastern Europe«, SAM / Swiss Architecture Museum Basel. 2009: AzW / Architecture Center Vienna. 2010: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest. 2011: Belgrade Heritage House, Belgrade International Architecture Week; Art Pavilion, Podgorica; Vivacom Art Hall, Sofia Architecture Week.
2005–2012
Project about informal building in Prishtina together with Archis Interventions/Prishtina.
2005
Founder member of Archis Interventions.
2003
Associate Member Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA – Federal Association of German Architects).
since 2001
Editorial consultant to the Dutch periodical Archis/VOLUME.
2003–2006
Adviser at the postgraduate program (Bauhaus Kolleg) of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.
2002–2010
International Building Exhibition (IBA) »StadtUmbau Sachsen-Anhalt 2010« advisory board member. 2003–2004 Direction of the project »Stadt-Ring Aschersleben«.
2001
Curator of the exhibition »Space and Time in Megalopolis«, City Gallery Prague; together with Eva Schmidt. Cocurator of the Cityscape conference, Biennial for Architecture + Media, Graz / Austria.
2000–2001
Adviser at the postgraduate program (Bauhaus Kolleg) of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.
1999–2000
Editor and curator of the publication and exhibition »Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen – Cities of the 21st Century« (together with Dirk Luckow), Bauhaus Dessau, May 2000. Guest editor to the Dutch periodical Archis. Together with Eva Schmidt editor of the publication »Robert Smithson: Schriften und Interviews«, and curator of the Robert Smithson exhibition at Kunsthalle Vienna, November 2000.
1994–1999
All artistic projects in cooperation with Grete Peschken.
1998
Berufener Experte (adjunct professor) in the Academy of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.
1995–1998
Projects in the field of architecture, design and visual arts at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Organization of symposiums and lectures in theory of aesthetics in the Academy of the Bauhaus Dessau.
1997–2001
Architectural competitions and urban design projects with landscape architects and architects.
1992–1996
Scientific lectureship in theory of perception at the University of Arts Berlin.
since 1994
Publications in the field of art theory and urbanism.
1994
Award of the Senator for cultural affairs Berlin.
1987–1989
Cofounder of the theatre »Schauplatz«, Berlin. Organization of exhibitions.
1987–1996
Work as freelance artist.
1981–1987
Studies of Visual Arts at the University of Arts Berlin. 1986 Meisterschüler (Master Class).
