Anselm Franke is Head of the Visual Arts department at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, where he was a part of the curatorial team of the Anthropocene Project. He organised exhibitions such as Animism (2012) and, together with Diedrich Diederichsen, The Whole Earth (2013), Forensis with Eyal Weizman (2014) and Ape Culture together with Hila Peleg (2015). He was chief curator of the Taipei Biennale 2012 and the Shanghai Biennale 2014. He completed his PhD at Goldsmith College in London in 2015.