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Daniel Tyradellis, Prof. Dr., studied philosophy and theory of science in Cologne, Bochum, Vienna and Berlin. Between 2000 and 2006 he was a member of the DFG Research Group "Coding Violence in Media Change". In 2004, he received his doctorate under Friedrich Kittler at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin with his dissertation "Zur Genese der Phänomenologie Husserls im Kontext der mathematischen Grundlagenkrise" (The Genesis of Husserl's Phenomenology in the Context of the Fundamental Mathematical Crisis); in the same year he was awarded the Humboldt Prize. Tyradellis regularly teaches and publishes on issues of contemporary philosophy and the theory and practice of curating, publications et. al.. "Tired Museums. How exhibitions could change our thinking", Hamburg 2014; "What does thinking mean to us? A conversation", together with Jean-Luc Nancy, Zurich-Berlin 2013; "Shoals. Husserl's conceptual framework between formalism and lifeworld", Würzburg 2006 ; Be expressed. The Immanence of Art, Berlin-Zurich 2020 - www.tyradellis.de.

Since 1997 Tyradellis also works as a freelance curator for various museums. He understands exhibitions as applied philosophy, as thinking in space with the aim of promoting social dialogue. Exhibitions i.e. 10+5=God. The Power of Signs (Jewish Museum Berlin 2004); Pain. Art + Sciene (Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum der Gegenwart / Berlin Museum of Medical History of the Charité 2007); Work. Meaning and Care (Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden 2009/10); Miracle (Deichtorhallen Hamburg 2011/12); Fire & Forget. On Violence (KW - Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, 2015); Shame. 100 Reasons to blush (Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden 2016), FAKE. The whole truth (Stapferhaus Lenzburg (Switzerland) 2018-2020).

Tyradellis has held the chair of the Humboldt Forum Endowed Professorship for the Theory and Practice of Interdisciplinary Curating, funded by the Bundesbeauftragte für Kultur und Medien. Since 2021, he works as Vice Director of the Hermann von Helmholtz-Centre for Cultural Techniques at Humboldt University Berlin.