Hagen Verleger

Hagen Verleger is a book designer, artist, and researcher based in Berlin. In addition to commissioned design work for cultural institutions and publishing houses, his research and artistic practice explores themes such as power structures within institutions, collective mode(l)s of authorship, and materially embedded ideologies. In 2017/2018, he was artist-in-residence at Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and in 2021 artist-in-residence at RAVI in Liège, Belgium. In 2020, he was a research fellow at both the German Literature Archive in Marbach, and at Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf. As a lecturer at art academies in Germany and abroad, he teaches graduate-level seminars on book design and on critical graphic design histories.