Ella Ziegler, born in 1970 in Ilshofen (Germany), focuses on site-specific interventions in urban space, research-based projects, and methods of narration in performances and publications such as artist books, multiples, takeaways, and performance lectures. She has participated in international exhibitions and projects and has gained a number of grants, including from the Stiftung Kunstfonds in 2010 and the Berlin Senate in 2009. After teaching in Switzerland at the École Cantonale d’Art du Valais and at the University of Kassel, in the Department of Architecture, she has been a professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in Germany since 2011. Ella is the co-initiator and organizer of the Salon Universitas for interdisciplinary dialogs between the sciences and the arts at the University of Kassel.