Benjamin Kändler is a curator and heritage consultant working across the arts, culture, heritage and creative tech sectors, with a specialism in the creative potential of emerging technologies and new media art. He is co-founder of Graham + Kändler, an agency bridging art, culture and commerce, and a consultant at Alix Slater Consultancy & Training, where he works across the heritage and museum sectors. His research currently spans digital heritage, network theory, eco-materialism and cyber-physical systems engineering.

That range has roots in the auction and arts education sectors, which shaped both a distinctive skill set and a dual interest in public policy and private-sector business development. His early career moved through music management, a travel and culture startup, and art history education, giving him a rounded sense of what it takes to build projects in this field. He graduated with a BA in History of Art at 21, having focused his research on the philosophy of perception, experiential pavilion architecture, the Irish novelist Samuel Beckett, and the impact of mechanisation on creative production. Taught by Forensic Architecture, he extended that work into data analysis and OSINT, examining the Panama Papers and the offshoring of art finance. His dissertation traced the cultural legacy of Virgil Abloh, and how he redefined the creative director through interdisciplinary practice; it drew on interviews with collaborators including Ben Kelly and was completed just months before Abloh's death in November 2021.

From there, Kändler worked for Corvi-Mora Gallery, a private art collector, and then Phillips Auctioneers, joining the Private Sales team in 2021 with a focus on post-war and contemporary art. His remit soon widened to leading digital art projects globally, and he left in 2024 as Global Lead for Digital Art, having directed sales and projects across Hong Kong, New York, Paris and London. In that role he set the auction record for a physical work by Vera Molnar in 2022, brought partnerships to market including Asprey and Bugatti's La Voiture Noire, and featured artists including Refik Anadol, Tyler Hobbs, Herbert W. Franke, Harold Cohen, Anna Ridler and Harm van den Dorpel.

Alongside this, he remains committed to non-profit and artist-focused causes. An alumnus of The National Gallery's ARTiculation Prize, he has been an ambassador for a decade and judged the prize at Dulwich Picture Gallery in 2025, continuing to support it through workshops at the University of Leeds, Folkestone Quarterhouse and Raven Row, London. He has sat on the Lumen Prize's International Selectors Committee since 2025, and has completed VocalEyes training to support blind and visually impaired visitors at museums, galleries and heritage sites.