Kristoffer Gansing
Kristoffer Gansing (he/they), is Professor in Design, specializing in Visual Communication at the Department of Design at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden. Their work spans curating, artistic research, media theory, and transdisciplinary practice. Through their research, curatorial activity, and writing, they develop transversal and post-digital perspectives and methodologies that aim to both situate and transform cultural practices. They are particularly interested in moving beyond representational forms in favor of a humble epistemology of agency and socio-cultural change through artistic practice as a form of situated, enacted, and performative knowledge. Currently, they are working on artistic research into small-scale and non-extractive media infrastructures and developing the framework of material speculation as a methodology in art and design.
Between 2020 and 2023, they were Professor of Artistic Research at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where they headed the three-year project, The International Center for Knowledge in the Arts. This professorship included coordinating and developing artistic research across seven national Higher Arts Education schools in Denmark, spanning Visual Art, Film, Music, and Performing Arts. Starting in autumn of 2023, they have also held a Visiting Professorship at the Department for Art & Media Technology at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Here they form part of the research group Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics.
Prior to this, they were the artistic director of the transdisciplinary art and culture festival transmediale, in Berlin, directing nine editions from 2012 to 2020. This included festivals such as BWPWAP - Back When Pluto was a Planet (2013), afterglow (2014), Capture All (2015), and End to End (2020). As part of this work, they also took part in (co-) developing and managing a residency program for artistic research, an online journal, festival publications, as well as fundraising and communications. (2025)
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