Daniel Birnbaum

Birnbaum studied at Stockholm University, Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and Columbia University in New York. In 1998, he completed his doctorate in philosophy at Stockholm University.Natalia Rachlin (June 12, 2012), [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/13/arts/13iht-rartbirnbaum13.html In Stockholm, Stretching a Museum's Boundaries] The New York Times.

Birnbaum has been the curator of institutions and exhibitions in many countries, for which he has produced catalogue entries. In 1998, he became director of Sweden's International Artists Studio Program (IASPIS), a position he held until 2000. During that time, he was also a co-curator of the 1st {{ill|MOMENTUM biennale|no|Momentum (Moss)}} in Moss, Norway, in 1998, with {{ill|Lars Bang Larsen|sv|Lars Bang Larsen}} and Atle Gerhardsen.{{Cite journal|last=Thorne|first=Sam|date=2009-01-01|title=53rd Venice Biennale|url=https://www.frieze.com/article/53rd-venice-biennale|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-21|journal=Frieze|issue=120 |language=en}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=1998|title=Momentum 1998|url=https://www.kunstaspekte.art/event/momentum-1998-event?hl=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-22|website=kunstaspekte.de|language=en}}

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 Städelschule since 1987.

In addition to his role at Städelschule, Birnbaum served as a member of the board of the Manifesta biennale in Amsterdam from 2002 to 2009. In 2003, he was co-curator of the international section of the 50th Venice Biennale. From 2004 to 2007, he was associate curator of the {{ill|Magasin 3|sv|Magasin III}} exhibition space in Stockholm. In 2005, he was co-curator of the 1st Moscow Biennale. From 2006 to 2008, he was co-curator of Uncertain States of America with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gunnar B. Kvaran at CCS Bard College, the Serpentine Gallery, the 2nd Moscow Biennale, the Rudolfinum Galerie, and the Astrup Fearnley Museum, among other locations.{{Cite web|title=Astrup Fearnley Museet|url=https://www.afmuseet.no/en/exhibition/uncertain-states-of-america-american-art-in-the-3rd-millennium-dFj9X-5sB|access-date=2020-08-21|website=www.afmuseet.no}} In 2007, he was co-curator of Airs de Paris with Christine Macel at the Centre Pompidou.{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=2007-09-12|title=Airs de Paris {{!}} Frieze|url=https://www.frieze.com/article/airs-de-paris|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-21|journal=Frieze|issue=109|language=en}} In 2008, he was co-curator of the 3rd {{ill|Yokohama Triennale|ja|横浜トリエンナーレ}} with Hu Fang, Akiko Miyake, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, and Beatrix Ruf,{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Yokohama Triennale 2008. Time Crevasse.|url=https://www.yokohamatriennale.jp/english/archive/2008/index.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-22|website=www.yokohamatriennale.jp|language=en}} and curator of the 2nd Torino Triennale, 50 Moons of Saturn.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2008-10-17|title=Torino Triennale 2008: 50 Moons of Saturn. Second edition of the Torino Triennale. Curator: Daniel Birnbaum.|url=https://www.biennialfoundation.org/2008/10/torino-triennale-2008-50-moons-of-saturn-second-edition-of-the-torino-triennale-curator-daniel-birnbaum/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-22|website=Biennial Foundation|language=en}} In 2009, he was the artistic director of the 53rd Venice Biennale.

Birnbaum also served on the juries for the Turner Prize (2008) and the first Future Generation Art Prize (2010).Carol Vogel (December 10, 2010), [http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/brazilian-artist-wins-new-100000-prize/ Brazilian Artist Wins New $100,000 Prize] The New York Times.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Future Generation Art Prize 2010|url=https://www.futuregenerationartprize.org/en/history/2010|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-21|website=futuregenerationartprize.org}}

From 2010 to 2018, Birnbaum served as the director of Moderna Museet, the museum of modern art in Stockholm.{{Cite web|title=Daniel Birnbaum Leaves Stockholm's Moderna Museet to Join VR Company Acute Art {{!}} Frieze|url=https://www.frieze.com/article/daniel-birnbaum-leaves-stockholms-moderna-museet-join-vr-company-acute-art|access-date=2020-08-21|website=Frieze|date=10 July 2018 |language=en}}

In 2015, Birnbaum chaired the jury that awarded the Museum Ludwig's Wolfgang Hahn Prize to Michael Krebber and R. H. Quaytman.[https://gesellschaft-museum-ludwig.de/en/initiativen-und-preise/wolfgang-hahn-preis/ Wolfgang Hahn Prize] Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig Köln.

Birnbaum was the co-curator of Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen with Emma Enderby at the Serpentine Galleries in 2016{{Cite web|title=Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen|url=https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/hilma-af-klint-painting-unseen/|access-date=2020-08-23|website=Serpentine Galleries|language=en-GB}} and of Hilma af Klint: Possible Worlds with Jochen Volz at the Pinacoteca in São Paulo in 2018.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Pinacoteca – Hilma af Klint: Mundos Possíveis|url=https://www.pinacoteca.org.br/en/programacao/hilma-af-klint/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-23|website=pinacoteca.org.br}} He has been an adjunct board member of the Hilma Af Klint Foundation since 2017.{{Cite web|title=Daniel Birnbaum, Director, joins the board of the Hilma af Klint Foundation|url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/164045/daniel-birnbaum-director-joins-the-board-of-the-hilma-af-klint-foundation/|access-date=2020-08-21|website=www.e-flux.com|language=en}}

In 2018, Birnbaum announced that he would leave his post to head up Acute Art, a company with an interest in creating virtual-reality and augmented-reality works in collaboration with artists.Alex Greenberger (July 10, 2018), [http://www.artnews.com/2018/07/10/daniel-birnbaum-depart-moderna-museet-direct-vr-company-acute-art/ Daniel Birnbaum Announces Exit from Moderna Museet to Direct VR Company Acute Art] ARTnews.

While in New York in the 1990s, Birnbaum began to write for Artforum and subsequently became a contributing editor. He also published articles in other international art magazines such as frieze.

He has written on artists Olafur Eliasson, Pierre Huyghe, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cerith Wyn Evans and Paul Chan.

He has produced academic texts and translations on Novalis, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Derrida, Thomas Bernhard, and Jean-François Lyotard:

• Daniel Birnbaum, The Hospitality of Presence: Problems of Otherness in Husserl's Phenomenology, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1998, 200 p., {{ISBN|978-91-22-01803-2}}.{{Cite journal|last=Schellhammer|first=Erich P.|date=2000|title=Review of The Hospitality of Presence: Problems of Otherness in Husserl's Phenomenology|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20131493|journal=The Review of Metaphysics|volume=54|issue=1|pages=131–133|jstor=20131493|issn=0034-6632}} A new edition was published ten years later: Daniel Birnbaum, The Hospitality of Presence: Problems of Otherness in Husserl's Phenomenology, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2008, 278 p., {{ISBN|978-1-933128-28-3}}{{Cite web|title=The Hospitality of Presence|url=https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/the-hospitality-of-presence/|access-date=2020-08-23|website=Sternberg Press|language=en}}
• Heike Belzer and Daniel Birnbaum, eds., Kunst Lehren – Teaching Art: Städelschule Frankfurt/Main, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2007, 376 p., English / German, {{ISBN|978-3-86560-339-5}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=kunst lehren teaching art|url=https://www.staedelschule.de/en/information/publications/kunst-lehren-teaching-art|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-23|website=www.staedelschule.de|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Teaching Art — Kunst Lehren Book Launch - Announcements - Art & Education|url=https://www.artandeducation.net/announcements/111403/teaching-art-kunst-lehren-book-launch|access-date=2020-08-23|website=www.artandeducation.net}}
• Daniel Birnbaum and {{ill|Isabelle Graw|de|Isabelle Graw}}, eds., Under Pressure: Pictures, Subjects, and the New Spirit of Capitalism, Institut für Kunstkritik series, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2008, 96 p., {{ISBN|978-1-933128-27-6}}{{Cite web|title=Under Pressure|url=https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/under-pressure-pictures-subjects-and-the-new-spirit-of-capitalism/|access-date=2020-08-23|website=Sternberg Press|language=en}}
• Daniel Birnbaum and {{ill|Sven-Olov Wallenstein|sv|Sven-Olov Wallenstein}}, Spacing Philosophy: Lyotard and the Idea of the Exhibition, Institut für Kunstkritik series, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2019, 252 p., {{ISBN|978-3-95679-388-2}}{{Cite web|title=Spacing Philosophy|url=https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/spacing-philosophy/|access-date=2020-08-23|website=Sternberg Press|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Lappalainen|first=Lars-Erik Hjertström|date=2020-05-05|title=Hidden Exhibitions|url=https://www.kunstkritikk.com/hidden-exhibitions|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-23|website=Kunstkritikk|language=en}}

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• [http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/director/ La Biennale di Venezia - Daniel Birnbaum]
• [http://www.mip.at/persons/daniel-birnbaum Texts and curated projects by Daniel Birnbaum] at museum in progress

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