Gregor Quack

Gregor Quack is a critic, curator, and historian of modern and contemporary art, specializing in the relationships and conflicts between artistic form and social realities. He holds a BA in Art History from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Master's degrees from Columbia University and Stanford University, and recently completed his PhD in Art History at Yale University under the supervision of Pamela M. Lee with a dissertation entitled "The Social Fabric: Franz Erhard Walther and the Sociological Turn of Art in Postwar Germany." Before graduate school, he was an art critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and has since continued to write for national newspapers and publications such as frieze, Artforum, and Texte zur Kunst. As a curator, he has worked as director of the Boros Collection, founded a student-run gallery, and (co-)curated exhibitions at the Cantor Arts Center, the Yale University Art Gallery, and galleries in New York, Cologne, and Seoul.