Thomas Girst

Thomas Girst studied art history, American studies and German literature at Hamburg University and New York University (DAAD Scholarship). He was the founding editor of the international literature and art anthology Die Aussenseite des Elementes (1991–2003) and the NY-based cultural correspondent for the German daily Die Tageszeitung. As research manager of the Art Science Research Laboratory under the directorship of Harvard University professor Stephen Jay Gould, Girst was editor-in-chief of Tout-Fait: The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal (1998–2003). Since 2003 he has served as head of cultural engagement at the BMW Group. He lectures at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Academy of Fine Arts Munich as well as at the Academy of Applied Sciences in Zürich. In 2012 he curated Marcel Duchamp in Munich 1912, whose catalogue he coedited. His most recent publications include The Indefinite Duchamp (2013), BMW Art Cars (2013), The Duchamp Dictionary (2014) and Art, Literature, and the Japanese American Internment Experience (2014).