Sven Lütticken is an art historian. He is associate professor at Leiden University’s Academy of Creative and Performing Arts / PhDArts, and he leads the research master's track Critical Studies in Art and Culture at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the editor of the critical reader Art and Autonomy (Afterall, 2022) and the author of Objections: Forms of Abstraction, Vol. 1 (Sternberg Press, 2022). Lütticken lives and works in Amsterdam.