Since 2021, Markus Miessen has been Professor of Urban Regeneration at the University of Luxembourg, where he holds the Chair of the City of Esch, associated with the MARCH programme that focusses on the socio-ecological transition, repair, the spatial politics of social inequalities, participation, and governance.
Studio Miessen was founded in London in 2005 and has been based in Berlin since 2008,[9] working on architectural and spatial design projects in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia.
[13][14] Major 2020s projects have included work for Tresor, T31 (TECHNO UND DIE GROSSE FREIHEIT, 2022), MUDAM (Michel Majerus Sinnmaschine, 2023), the Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, Munich (2022-25), and for the Bundeskunsthalle (We Capitalists, 2020, and All in!
In 2006 Miessen and Hans Ulrich Obrist founded the Brutally Early Club.,[15][16] conducting conversational, salon-type meetings in post-public spaces at 6:30 AM in originally in London and later in Berlin, New York City and Paris.
[19] In collaboration with Nikolaus Hirsch, Markus Miessen initiated and edits the Critical Spatial Practice book series at Sternberg Press,[20] publishing contributors including Keller Easterling, Beatriz Colomina, Chantal Mouffe, Eyal Weizman, Felicity Scott, Metahaven, Armin Linke, Trevor Paglen, Rabih Mroué and Jill Magid.