Beate Geissler has been active in a collaborative partnership with Oliver Sann since 1996. Their work concentrates on inner alliances of knowledge and power, their deep links in western culture and the escalation in and transformation of human beings through technology. The artists’ work spans science, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, political science and contemporary art. Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in museums, galleries, and alternative spaces, including the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; the Fotomuseum Antwerp; the NGBK (New Society for Visual Arts) in Berlin; the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland; the Museum Ludwig in Cologne; MAST Foundation in Bologna, Italy; and the German Pavilion at the Photography Biennial Dubai, UAE. Together, they published four monographs: Return to Veste Rosenberg (2006), Personal Kill (2010), Volatile Smile (2013) and the bio-adapter / you won’t fool the children of the revolution (2019). Geissler/Sann more recently have been the recipient of grants from the Elisabeth Cheney Foundation and the Graham Foundation, Chicago. Beate Geissler received the Humanities Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she is a Professor of Art.