PUBLIC LECTURE: The Harris German Program's 2025 Walter Picard Lecturers

Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath are the co-directors of the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. The Hamburger Bahnhof is one of the largest and most significant public collections of contemporary art in the world.

Prior to their arrival there, they were associate curators at the Gropius Bau, Berlin, from 2017 to 2021. The pair are known for centering inclusion in artistic and institutional practices, and for their revisionist approach to art history.

Some of their museum exhibitions include ‘Mona Hatoum: Turbulence at Mathaf’, Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha (2014), and ‘Songs of Loss and Songs of Love: Oum Kulthoum and Lee Nan-Young’ at the Gwangju Museum of Art in South Korea (2014). In 2013, Bardaouil and Fellrath were the curators of the Lebanese Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale and of the French Pavillion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. Under their curatorial platform Art Reoriented, which they launched in 2009, they have collaborated with more than seventy museums worldwide.

Bardaouil and Fellrath have held teaching positions at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, the London School of Economics, the Singapore Institute of Management, and the American University of Beirut among other institutions. Their academic research projects include collaborations with numerous institutions such as the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA) in Paris, the Haus der Kunst in Munich, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. They have authored and contributed to numerous publications such as ‘Overcoming the Modern: Dansaekhwa-The Korean Monochrome Movement’, ‘Iran Inside Out’, ‘ItaliaArabia’, and their recent book ‘Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring: Conversations with Artists from the Arab World’.