Klaus Biesenbach

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Klaus Biesenbach (* 1966 in Bergisch Gladbach ) is a German curator and museum director. He is the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), former director of the New York art gallery MoMA PS1 (Borough of Queens ), and chief curator at Large at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. In the early 1990s he co-founded the Kunst-Werke Berlin and in 1996 the Berlin Biennale.

Life

Biesenbach first studied medicine in Munich and then Berlin up to the first state examination. When he saw television pictures of the fall of the Berlin Wall during a stay in New York (1989), he decided to move to Berlin . He and his fellow students rented a former margarine factory in Berlin-Mitte , called it “ works of art ” and, in a very short time, offered a much-noticed international program with exhibitions and guest studios for artists and clubs. At the same time he studied fine arts with Professor Katharina Sieverding at the University of the Arts (HdK) (today University of the Arts , UdK) in Berlin.

Since 1996 he has organized parallel exhibitions at MoMA PS1 , an institution for contemporary art in a former school in Queens (part of New York City), which in 1999 was affiliated to the "Museum of Modern Art". In 1997 he made a guest appearance at “ Documenta X ” with Hybrid WorkSpace . In 1998, the "Kunst-Werke" organized the first Berlin Biennale under Biesenbach's direction .

In 1997, Biesenbach was the youngest member of the international jury for the Venice Biennale and in 2002 was co-curator of the Shanghai Biennale . In 2004 he became chief curator of a department for media art in the “Museum of Modern Art”, which he co-founded and which he expanded to become a department for media and performance art. Since 2010 he has headed the MoMA branch MoMA PS1 and is Chief Curator at Large at the Museum of Modern Art.

Klaus Biesenbach was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 2016.

On July 31, 2018, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles announced that Biesenbach will move to the MOCA as director in March 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History - Berlin Biennale. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 16, 2017 ; Retrieved April 14, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.berlinbiennale.de
  2. ^ Dorit Marschall: Accelerated Life - Handelsblatt, April 9, 2008
  3. ↑ Hybrid workspace - monoscope. Retrieved April 14, 2017 (English).
  4. ^ 1st Berlin Biennale - Berlin Biennale. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 23, 2017 ; Retrieved April 14, 2017 (American English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.berlinbiennale.de
  5. ↑ Shanghai is racing to become China's cultural capital. Retrieved April 14, 2017 .
  6. ^ Art Center PS1: Klaus Biesenbach becomes museum director in New York - Spon, October 22, 2009
  7. ↑ Museum director Biesenbach receives Federal Order of Merit on monopol-magazin.de
personal data
SURNAME Biesenbach, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German curator and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergisch Gladbach