Hubertus von Amelunxen is a Professor at the International School of New Media, Lübeck, the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, and the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee. He studied Roman, German, and Art History at Marburg and Paris and finished his Ph.D. in Roman Studies at the University of Mannheim. Amelunxen authored and published several books focusing on the history and theory of photography.
Hubertus von Amelunxen lectured in Basel and became a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. From 1995 to 2000 he was a professor at the Muthesius Hochschule for Art and Design in Kiel where he founded the Center for Interdisciplinary Project Studies. In 2000 he taught at the University of Düsseldorf and at the Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerpen. Since 2001 he is working as a Senior Curator at the Centre Canadien d‘Architecture in Montréal. In the same year Amelunxen became a faculty member of the European Graduate School and founding director at the International School of New Media in Lübeck. He curated several international exhibitions, including Tomorrow For Ever – Photographie als Ruine, Krems/Duisburg (2000).
