Wolfgang Scheppe
is a German-born philosopher, author and curator who since 1996 has lived and taught in the USA, Switzerland and Italy. His work as an interdisciplinary theorist frequently includes the medium of exhibitions taking a form described as “theory installations.” These research exhibitions have been shown, amongst other places, in New York, Rome, Paris, Venice, Berlin, Munich, and Zurich. Since 2009, he has directed the Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation in Venice, which emerged from the IUAV University. He is the author of many extensive research publications. These include the comprehensive standard work on the globalized city, Migropolis (2009), and Taxonomy of The Barricade. Image Acts of Political Authority in May 1968 (NERO, 2021).