Curators

Angelique Campens (1980) is an independent curator and writer. Born in Belgium, she works for non-profit galleries and public art spaces and is art adviser and writer for Domus. In 2007-2008, she was selected for the International Study Programme (ISP) at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Campens curated the solo exhibition “after the fair” by Kasper Akhøj at Wiels, Brussels, and was co-curator for the group exhibition Persona in Meno in the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Italy in 2010. She was assistant curatorat the Belgian Pavilion with the artist Jef Geys at the 2009 Venice Biennale. She curated a section at the 2009 Watou Art Festival with “Office” (Kersten Geers David van Severen) and Bureau Bas Smets and was a co-curator of “For Reasons of State” at The Kitchen, New York (2008). Recently she published her first book about the architecture of the Belgian Modernist Juliaan Lampens. Angelique Campens holds an M.A. in Art History from Ghent University.

Fredi Fischli (1986) is a freelance curator. He worked at Galerie Karma International in Zurich and was assistant at various institutions and galleries, including Matthew Marks Gallery in New York and the migros museum für gegenwartskunst in Zurich. He has curated numerous solo- and group exhibitions. Most recently, he founded and co-curated the exhibition space Darsa Comfort, which is located in Zurich.

Magdalena Magiera (1978) is a freelance curator, an editor at the Berlin office of the art magazine frieze and a co-founder of the interview magazine mono.kultur. Born in Germany, she studied art in Poland and Canada. She was involved in the organisation of the first Lodz Biennale (2004). From 2006 to 2009, she played a leading role in the concept, organisation and management of the discursive project spaces e-flux, unitednationsplaza Berlin, unitednationsplaza Mexico City and The Building Berlin. In the summer of 2010, she co-organised and co-curated Splace, a temporary exhibition space in the Berlin TV Tower with Antje Majewski, Juliane Solmsdorf and Dirk Peuker.

Jakob Schillinger (1979) works as a freelance writer and curator and is currently based in Berlin. In 2008-2009, he was a Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s International Study Programme in New York. Prior to that, he was a curatorial assistant at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School in New York. He was recently a co-initiator of the experimental exhibition space Exhibition. He has written articles for catalogues and anthologies, as well as for specialist journals such as Edit, Mousse and October. Jakob Schillinger studied visual communication and art at the UdK Berlin and Cooper Union, New York. He has been a PhD candidate in art history at the HfG Karlsruhe since October 2009.

Scott Cameron Weaver (1981) studied art history and German. Born in the United States, he has lived in Berlin since 2003. Following many years of work for the Galerie NEU and the exhibition space Mehringdamm 72 in Berlin, among others, he is currently an assistant curator for modern and contemporary art at the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Advisors

Klaus Biesenbach is Director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art. He co-founded KW (KUNST-WERKE) Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin in 1991, and the Berlin Biennale in 1996, where he together with Nancy Spector and Hans Ulrich Obrist realized the exhibition Berlin Berlin which featured the, at the time, emerging art scene in Berlin. Biesenbach has organized or co-curated many solo and group exhibitions internationally, including 37 Rooms (Berlin, 1992); Club Berlin, Venice Biennale (1995), Nach Weimar (Weimar, 1996); Hybrid Workspace at Documenta X (Kassel, 1997), Shanghai Biennale (2002), and several international museum touring exhibitions including Henry Darger: Disasters of War and Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures. At MoMA PS1, he co-organized Greater New York (2000, 2005, and 2010), and at MoMA he organized or installed large scale retrospectives of Marina Abramovic, Douglas Gordon, and the upcoming Francis Alys exhibition. He co-installed retrospectives of William Kentridge and Olafur Eliasson, and developed and realized monumental commissions by Pipilotti Rist and Doug Aitken.

Christine Macel has been a Chief Curator of the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris since 2000. As director of the department of création contemporaine and prospective she has curated many exhibitions, including Raymond Hains, Sophie Calle, Philippe Parreno, Gabriel Orozco, Dionysiac, Airs de Paris and The Promises of the Past. Along with Emma Lavigne, Christine Macel is developing the exhibition Dance your life, on the interaction between art and dance in the 20th and 21st centuries – which will open in November 2011. Christine Macel also works as an art critic for various magazines such as artpress, Flash Art and Artforum. In 2007, she published “Time taken, the work of time in the work of art” (Monografik/Centre Pompidou), an essay on contemporary art.

Hans Ulrich Obrist is Co-director of the Serpentine Gallery in London. Prior to this he was Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris from 2000 to 2006, as well as curator of Museum in progress, Vienna, from 1993 to 2000. Obrist has curated over 250 exhibitions since his first exhibition, the Kitchen show (World Soup) in 1991: 1994; Take Me, I’m Yours, 1995; Manifesta 1, 1996; Laboratorium, 1999; Cities on the Move, 1997; Live/Life, 1996; Nuit Blanche, 1998; 1st Berlin Biennale, 1998; Utopia Station, 2003; 2nd Guangzhou Triennale, 2005; Dakar Biennale, 2004; 1st & 2nd Moscow Biennale, 2005 and 2007; Lyon Biennale, 2007; Yokohama Triennale, 2008 and Indian Highway, 2008 - 2011. The Marathon series of public events was conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist in Stuttgart in 2005. The first in the Serpentine series, the Interview Marathon in 2006, involved interviews with leading figures in contemporary culture over 24 hours, conducted by Obrist and architect Rem Koolhaas. This was followed by the Experiment Marathon, conceived by Obrist and artist Olafur Eliasson in 2007, which included 50 experiments by speakers across both arts and science, the Manifesto Marathon in 2008, the Poetry Marathon in 2009 and the Map Marathon in 2010. In March 2011, Obrist was awarded the Bard College Award for Curatorial Excellence.