biography
Jens Maier-Rothe is an independent curator. Together with Sarah Rifky, he is Co-Director of Beirut, a new art initiative and exhibition space in Cairo. He has realised numerous group exhibitions in Belgium, Egypt, Germany, Sweden, Taiwan and the USA, and founded the curatorial research project Sonic Thinking in 2008. He has lectured and taught at universities and institutions, including the School of Visual Arts, New York; Inter Arts Center, Lund University, Sweden; MASS Alexandria, Egypt; and the Villa Romana in Florence, Italy.
In August 2012, he initiated, co-organised and hosted the international symposium Citizens Reporting, A Collective Memory, in Berlin.
He received his MFA in Critical Studies from the Malmö Art Academy, Sweden (2009) and was a fellow of the Independent Study Programme at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (2010).