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Klaus Speidel is an academic philosopher, art critic and curator, who studied philosophy and art history in Munich (LMU) and Paris (Ecole normale supérieure, Paris X Nanterre, Sorbonne). Beyond numerous academic publications on topics related to art, narrative, depiction, style, drawing and digital, Klaus writes on contemporary art and culture for international magazines like Spike, artpress, Art Newspaper, Parnass and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung since 2006. In 2015, he received the AICA France Prize for Art Criticism. He curated exhibitions in Germany, Austria and France, was a guest on the Arte TV show « Philosophie » and a keynote speaker at different international events.
From 2003 to 2006, Klaus was awarded an Sélection internationale scholarship from Ecole normale supérieure and from 2006 to 2010 he held a doctoral grant from Ecole normale supérieure and Sorbonne. In 2013, he completed his doctorate in philosophy at the Sorbonne with a dissertation on the possibilities and modalities of narration in single pictures. From 2015 to 2018, he headed the Lise-Meitner Postdoc research project “Towards an Experimental Narratology of the Image” at the Lab for Cognitive Research in Art History (CReA) at the University of Vienna. Most of his publications can be accessed here: https://univie.academia.edu/KlausSpeidel