Former director of the Kunstmuseum luzern and the Kunsthalle Bern, Loock currently lectures on art history at the Schule für Gestaltung Bern. He has co-authored a monograph on Gerhard Richter and has written numerous essayus on contemporary artists including Marlene Dumas, Robert Gober, Sol LeWitt, Thomas Schütte, and Luc Tuymans.