Dieter Kiessling

Dieter Kiessling

He was born in Münster in 1957. From 1978 to 1986, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Münster. In 1997, he was a visiting professor at the University of the Arts in Bremen. From 1997 to 2003, he was a professor of media art at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. From 2004 to 2005, he was an acting professor of artistic photography at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Since 2005, he has been a professor at the Mainz Academy of Fine Arts, part of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. From 2014 to 2017, he served as the academy’s rector.

Info

Raum: 01-146, 1. OG West
Telefon: +49 6131 39 30097
d.kiessling@uni-mainz.de

Awards, Scholarships / Selection

1990 – Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendium
1990 – Förderpreis des Kulturkreises im BDI
1991 – Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
1993 – Arbeitsstipendium des Kunstfonds Bonn e.V.