Ulrich Loock was born in 1953 in Braunschweig (Germany) and lives currently as an art critic, curator, and lecturer in Berlin. From 1985 to 2010 he served consecutively as the director or deputy director of Kunsthalle Bern, Kunstmuseum Luzern, and Museu de Serralves. For more than thirty years he has organised exhibitions of artists from his own generation, but also an older and a younger generation, edited monographic catalogues to accompany the shows, lectured extensively in different parts of the world, and contributed to numerous publications. In 2010 he has written for the first time on the work of Carla Filipe.