Christopher Muller (b. 1966) grew up in London and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and at the Kunstakademie Dü sseldorf. He was awarded a stipend by Kunstfonds e.V., Bonn (1995), the Stadt Nordhorn (2000) and the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung for Contemporary German Photography (2004). From 2007 to 2009 he was Professor of Photography at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, before becoming Professor of Photography at the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, where he currently teaches. He lives in Dü sseldorf. Peter Friese (b. 1952) is art historian, curator and former museum director. He studied Art History, Archeology, Pedagogy, Philosophy i.a. at Max Imdahl in Bochum. He was a co-founder and curator of Kunstraum Wuppertal, in 1988 he took over the artistic direction of Kunstverein Ruhr in Essen. From 2007 he was the head curator of Museum Weserburg, where he was director from 2015 to 2018. He curated among others shows with Gary Hill, Christian Boltansky, Lawrence Weiner, Gerhard Richter, Anna and Bernhard Blume, and Tony Cragg.