Vanessa Joan Müller is an art historian, writer and curator based in Vienna. She was curator at the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt (2000-2006), Head of Research of the European Kunsthalle in Cologne (2005/2006), director of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Dusseldorf (2006-2011) and Head of Dramaturgy at Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna (2011-2020). Recent and ongoing research have focused on exhibition histories, questions on display and typologies of institutions. The Frankfurt School has been a source of inspiration for a long time, and also shapes her current research project on alienation.