Sebastian Mühl is a Berlin-based researcher, educator and curator. He completed a phd on the revival of utopian thought in contemporary art, his monograph Utopien der Gegenwartskunst. Geschichte und Kritik des utopischen Denkens in der Kunst nach 1989 was published with Transcript in 2020 (English translation: Vernon Press 2027).

His research interests include global contemporary art, post-socialist art and culture, aesthetic theory, critical theory, utopia, agitprop and propaganda, theories of democracy.

From 2013 to 2017, Sebastian was Research Assistant to Juliane Rebentisch at Offenbach University of Art and Design. He was a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Cultural Analysis at Klagenfurt University and Lecturer at the Department of Art and Design at Hochschule für Künste Bremen. In 2020, he joined the Dresden State Art Collections, where he launched the digital platform voices, featuring online screening programs on sustainability and the transcultural. In 2021/22, Sebastian hold a Guest Professorship for Perception Theory at HfG Offenbach and for Visual Culture at the Faculty of Humanities of Klagenfurt University.

In 2023, Sebastian joined the faculty of the LMDA Institute of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture at the Art Academy of Latvia.

In 2025, he co-curated the exhibition Utopia. The Right to Hope at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (together with Andreas Beitin and Dino Steinhof).

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