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Klaus Biesenbach

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Biesenbach founded Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin in 1991, as well as the Berlin Biennale in 1996, and remains Founding Director of both entities. Under his artistic and executive directorship, KW and the Berlin Biennale were started as self-inventive initiatives and are now federally and state funded institutions.

Biesenbach joined MoMA PS1 as a curator in 1996; the museum's director Alanna Heiss had hired him part-time while allowing him to maintain his directorship in Berlin. In 2004, Biesenbach was appointed as a curator in the MoMA's "Department of Film and Media". He was named Chief Curator of MoMA's newly formed 'Department of Media, in 2006, which was subsequently broadened to the Department of Media and Performance Art, in 2009, to reflect the Museum's increased focus on collecting, preserving, and exhibiting performance art. As Chief Curator of the department, Biesenbach led a range of pioneering initiatives, including the launch of a new performance art exhibition series; an ongoing series of workshops for artists and curators; acquisitions of media and performance art; and the Museum's presentation in 2010 of a major retrospective of the work of Marina Abramović—with whom he was formerly romantically involved.

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Klaus Biesenbach

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Books from Klaus Biesenbach

Henry Darger

Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present

Marina Abramović

Björk: Archives

Marco Anelli: Portraits in the Presence of Marina Abramovic

William Kentridge: Five Themes

Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz

Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception

Into Me/Out of Me

Douglas Gordon: Timeline

Doug Aitken: Sleepwalkers

Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971

Animations

Fischerspooner: New Truth

Video Acts: Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and the New Art Trust

Andrei Monastyrski

Motion Pictures

MoMA PS1: A History

Björk: Archives

Mexico City