Wolfgang Winkler

Wolfgang Winkler is a writer, researcher, curator, and psychoanalyst based in Berlin. He completed his studies in social anthropology in 1979 at the Freie Universität Berlin; in the 1980s he began to train in Freudian psychoanalysis. He was a co-founder of KunstWerke, Berlin, and undertook projects as an independent curator and writer with, among others, Franz Erhard Walther, Jochen Gerz, Gerhard Merz, and Ulay. Winkler has taught at numerous art schools across Germany, among them the Universität der Künste in Berlin and the Städelschule in Frankfurt. His writing and criticism has been published widely through, among others, Portikus, Frankfurt, and Edition Text+Kritik, Munich. Since 1999, he maintains a private psychoanalytic practice in Berlin.