Prof. Uwe J. Reinhardt MA

Prof. Uwe J. Reinhardt MA is a cultural scientist, journalist, and exhibition organizer focusing on design, exhibitions, and creative writing.

He has studied Empirical Culture and Design, Politics, and Germanic Studies in Rome, Tübingen, and Stuttgart, and taught at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, the University of Hohenheim, and the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt; he is a peer on the visual communication course at Berlin University of the Arts and a guest professor at the German University in Cairo. In 2005, he took up a role as a professor in textual/verbal communication at Hochschule Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, and as head of the edi – Exhibition Design Institute – and the “Exhibition Design” Masters program. Reinhardt is a member of the advisory board for DAAD scholarship for visual arts/design/film. He acts as an advisor to the Klassik Stiftung Weimar cultural foundation, and was a co-founder of the EIS – European Initiative Scenography – network. He has worked as a guest professor at the Saar College of Fine Arts and as a visiting professor at Parsons New School for Design NYC. He has also written a series of books on new exhibition design.
Main topics in research and professional practice: text and scripts, editing and design, exhibition design and scenography, books and catalogs. Reinhardt lives in Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, and – as often as he can – in Brooklyn.

Photo credit: Yvonne Seidel