studied Free Art at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, where he received an M.A., and philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In 2006, he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with a dissertation on »Kant’s Aesthetics in the Age of Photography«. He then worked as a research associate at the Institute for Arts and Media at the University of Potsdam, as a research fellow at the NFS Eikones (Basel) and at the IKKM Weimar. From 2013 onwards, he holds a visiting professorship for »visual thinking and perception« at the University of Potsdam.