Kathrin Busch is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Arts, Berlin. Her research focuses on French philosophy, art theory, and aesthetics. She publishes on topics such as knowledge in the arts and the aesthetics of passivity, incapacity and sensibility. She launched the Berlin funding program for artistic research (kuenstlerischeforschung.berlin) and has collaborated on various art projects, most recently curating the exhibition Radical Passivity: Politics of the Flesh at nGbK Berlin.