Johan Hartle is the dean of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He held professorships at the State University for Arts and Design Karlsruhe, the Academy of Fine Arts Münster/Westphalia, and the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. For several years he taught philosophy of Arts and Culture at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). His publications include: Aesthetic Marx (London: Bloomsbury 2017, edited, with Samir Gandesha), The Aging of Adorno's Aesthetics (Milan: Mimesis 2021, edited with Samir Gandesha and Stefano Marino).