Swantje Karich is an art historian, art critic, specialist in the art market, and editor at F.A.Z. She studied art history, German language and literature, and philosophy in Bonn and Leicester, England, and she went to journalism school in Berlin. She teaches in Frankfurt in the programme “Curatorial Studies – Theory – History – Critique”, in Berlin at the Institute for Art and Visual History of Humboldt University, and at the Martin Luther University in Halle.