Ines Kleesattel is a scholar of critical aesthetic studies with a background in philosophy, cultural studies, art education, and artistic research. Her work addresses relational practices of critique, situated aesthetics, queer-feminist ways of doing theory, and methods of artistic research. Since 2023 she is a professor at Basel Academy of Art and Design. Before, she was a guest professor at Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, a senior Researcher at University of Applied Arts Vienna as well as at Zurich University of the Arts. Kleesattel holds a PhD in Aesthetics/Philosophy. As a post-doc, she contributed to the SNSF project Aesthetics of Translocality. Recently, she has published on the topics of queer-feminist witchery as critical fabulation and on landscaping as a relational practice.