Name Daniel Birnbaum | Education Stockholm University | |
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Jeff koons daniel birnbaum moderna museet
Daniel Birnbaum (born 10 July 1963) is the director of the Moderna Museet, the museum of modern art in Stockholm.
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- Jeff koons daniel birnbaum moderna museet
- How do we talk about art daniel birnbaum
- Life and career
- Publications
- Curator career
- References
How do we talk about art daniel birnbaum
Life and career
Birnbaum was born in Stockholm. He studied at the Stockholm University, the Freie Universität Berlin and Columbia University in New York. While in New York, Birnbaum also began to write for Art Forum. In 1998, he completed his doctorate in philosophy at the Stockholm University. Subsequently he became director of the Swedish "International Artists Studio Program" (IASPIS), a position he held well into the year 2000. Between 2001 and 2010, Birnbaum held the position of Rector at the Städelschule fine arts academy in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. During that time, he also served as director of Portikus, an exhibition space at the Staedelschule since 1987. In 2008, he was a member of the Turner Prize jury.
Publications
In 2007, Birnbaum published Teaching Art: Staedelschule Frankfurt am Main and has subsequently written on Olafur Eliasson, Pierre Huyghe, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cerith Wyn Evans and Paul Chan. His latest book is Under Pressure (Frankfurt 2008). In addition to articles published in international art magazines such as Artforum and frieze, he also produced a series of academic texts and translations on Novalis, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Derrida and Thomas Bernhard.
Curator career
While teaching, Birnbaum also pursued curatorial work. He was co-curator of the 50th Venice Biennale (2003) as well as the director of the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). He has been the curator of institutions and exhibitions in many countries, for which he has produced catalogue entries:
Birnbaum also serves on the jury for the first Future Generation Art Prize.
