Benjamin Fellmann, research and programme director of the Warburg-Haus, is an art historian and curator. Since 2017, he is responsible for scientific and cultural programmes as well as exhibitions, collections and archives. In 2016, he earned his doctorate at the universities of Hamburg and Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis as a scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) in a joint PhD that was supported by the Deutsch-Französische Hochschule/Université Franco-Allemande with a thesis on the history of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. His book Palais de Tokyo. Kunstpolitik und Ästhetik im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2019 (Palais de Tokyo. Art Politics and Aesthetics in the 20th and 21st Centuries) is the winner of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte’s 2020 Willibald Sauerländer Award for distinguished research in the history and practice of art history. In 2009/10 he was a fellow of the Carlo-Schmid-Programme at the United Nations Development Programme, Copenhagen. He studied at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, and the universities of Hamburg and Roma Tre, Rome, and holds a BA in Media and Communication Studies and Art History and an MA in Media Studies from Hamburg University, the latter with a thesis on Walter Benjamin (Durchdringung und Porosität: Walter Benjamins Neapel, Berlin: Lit 2014) (Interpenetration and Porosity: Walter Benjamin’s Naples). He also worked as a senior editor and co-publisher of the German art and culture magazine DARE. Most recently he curated the exhibitions AFTER PASOLINI – Visions of Today (together with Bettina Steinbrügge, Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv/Bulgaria, September–October 2020) and Class Relations. Phantoms of Perception (with Bettina Steinbrügge and Tobias Peper, Kunstverein in Hamburg, October 2018–January 2019). Recent publications include: Klassenverhältnisse. Phantoms of Perception (ed., with Bettina Steinbrügge; contributions by Didier Eribon, Catherine Perret, Frank Adloff, Harun Farocki, Jean-Marie Straub et al., Cologne: Koenig Books 2020); AFTER PASOLINI – Visions of Today (Plovdiv: Center for Contemporary Art, The Ancient Baths 2021, with Bettina Steinbrügge); Seismografen und Orientierungsspiegel. Bilder der Welt in kurzen Kunstgeschichten (ed., with Leena Crasemann and Yannis Hadjinicolaou, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2022). He was a fellow at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, in 2021 and in 2022, ParisXRome-Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome, and the German Center for Art History (DFK) Paris. In 2023 he was invited at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne as a Visiting Professor.

Eva Landmann is head of the Warburg-Haus office. The registered pediatric nurse and foreign language correspondent has been working at the University of Hamburg since 1991. After her first position in the Department of Computer Science, Landmann moved to the office of President Dr. Jürgen Lüthje in 1996. Diverse intercultural experience and longer stays abroad in the USA and South America predestined her for her further work as Office Manager in the Department of International Affairs from 2006 to 2011. During this time, she also worked for a year in the University’s Academic Music Department. Since November 2011, Eva Landmann is in charge of organizational matters at the Warburg-Haus, coordinating events, looking after guests and supporting the work of the Aby-Warburg-Stiftung.

Hannah Neufang works at the Warburg-Haus as a student assistant for the Warburg-Archiv (Warburg archive) and Archiv Hamburger Kunst (Archive of Art in Hamburg). At the University of Hamburg, she has been continuing her studies in art history since 2021 after completing a bachelor’s degree in art and visual studies and classical philology at Saarland University focusing on modern and contemporary art.

Ruben Wagner works at the Warburg-Haus as a student assistant for the Warburg-Archiv (Warburg archive), Heckscher archive and Archiv Hamburger Kunst (Archive of Art in Hamburg). At the University of Hamburg, he has been continuing his studies in art history since 2023 after completing a bachelor’s degree in art history and musicology at Georg-August-University Göttingen focusing on art theory in the early modern and modern period.