Miro Leon Bucher

Artist | Curator | Philosopher | Anthropologist

Miro Leon Bucher (preferably without gender pronouns; alternatively, they/them, he/him) is a German artist, curator, anthropologist, and philosopher, currently working as an artistic and academic staff member at the Academic and Research Department for Artistic Methods at RWTH Aachen University. At the department, Miro does research and teaches about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Utopianism in art and architecture. Beyond RWTH Aachen University, they have held workshops and lectures at Yonsei University and the Goethe-Institut Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Miro holds a Master of Arts in Philosophy and Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Cologne, for which they completed extensive research stays in Seoul, Republic of Korea, and at Ewha Womans University. This research focused on gender, feminism, and contemporary art. In their thesis entitled "'Lee Subin, Born 1998'. Understanding Contemporary Gender Issues in South Korea through Collaborative Exhibition-Making", Miro presents an ethnography on the epistemic potentials of collaborative exhibition-making.

Recent research projects include “Democratising AI through Culture,” which has been realised in collaboration with the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), and "Cultural and Gender Bias in AI," supported by the Institute for AI and Social Innovation, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

In their artistic practice, Miro combines utopian or idealistic underpinnings with accessible and reproducible types of media, such as print and digital formats. Building on this artistic practice and their master's thesis, Miro is currently working toward a PhD on the epistemic potentials of collaborative exhibition-making as an extension of the artistic process. The dissertation proposes a culturally situated, yet multi-sited (Germany, South Korea, Japan), ethnographic and artistic practice of exhibition-making. This is discussed in the context of a case study on the Metabolism movement in Japanese architecture, and its multimedial proposal for idealistic forms of architecture and art.

Miro has worked at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and for its Artist Residency, as well as for the Chair of Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, and Logic and the Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition (CONCEPT) at the University of Cologne. Their studies and research have been funded by the German Academic Exchange Service and the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen.

Miro Leon Bucher has exhibited and curated in Seoul, the Republic of Korea, and Germany.