Julian Volz is a curator, and research associate in the graduate programme Cultures of Critique at Leuphana University Lüneburg. In his dissertation, he is researching contemporary artistic practices that are referring to the (cultural-)revolutionary era of independent Algeria in the 1960s. Other research interests include Third Cinema, Queer Contemporary Art from the SWANA region and modernist Art in North Africa. Together with Meike Gerber and Emanuel Kapfinger he edited an anthology on Hans-Jürgen Krahl (2022), who was one of the leading theorists of the movement of 1968 in West Germany.