Nisaar Ulama

Born 1982 in Bendorf, Rhein/Germany.

Nisaar Ulama studied philosophy, political science and international law at the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and completed his degree with a magister’s thesis on the »homo pictor«-concept by Hans Jonas. He is author of essays for the culture magazines Kraut and Hate as of several catalogue- and exhibition texts, amongst others for Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt am Main, Germany, C/O Berlin and Frontviews Gallery, Berlin.

He is currently writing a doctoral thesis dealing with power, knowledge and aesthetics of diagrammatical visualizations at Freie Universität Berlin. He is also member of the DFG Research Training Centre »Visibility and Visualisation – Hybrid Forms of Pictorial Knowledge« at University of Potsdam.

Nisaar Ulama is a fellow in cooperation with the DFG Research Training Centre »Visibility and Visualisation – Hybrid Forms of Pictorial Knowledge« at University of Potsdam.