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 MOMENTUM biennale [no] in Moss, Norway, in 1998, with Lars Bang Larsen [sv] and Atle Gerhardsen.[4][5]
Städelschule, 2001–2010edit
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.[3]
Birnbaum was the co-curator of Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen with Emma Enderby at the Serpentine Galleries in 2016[14][15] and of Hilma af Klint: Possible Worlds with Jochen Volz at the Pinacoteca in São Paulo in 2018.[14][16] He has been an adjunct board member of the Hilma Af Klint Foundation since 2017.[14]
Later careeredit
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.[17]
Publicationsedit
While in New York in the 1990s, Birnbaum began to write for Artforum and subsequently became a contributing editor.[3] He also published articles in other international art magazines such as frieze.
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.[18] 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[19]
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[20][21]
Daniel Birnbaum and Isabelle Graw [de], 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[22]
Daniel Birnbaum and Sven-Olov Wallenstein [sv], 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[23][24]
Referencesedit
^ abFilippi, Lavinia. "The Recession Biennale". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
^"Airs de Paris | Frieze". Frieze (109). 2007-09-12. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
^"Yokohama Triennale 2008. Time Crevasse". www.yokohamatriennale.jp. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
^"Torino Triennale 2008: 50 Moons of Saturn. Second edition of the Torino Triennale. Curator: Daniel Birnbaum". Biennial Foundation. 2008-10-17. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
^Carol Vogel (December 10, 2010), Brazilian Artist Wins New $100,000 Prize The New York Times.
^"Future Generation Art Prize 2010". futuregenerationartprize.org. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
^"Daniel Birnbaum Leaves Stockholm's Moderna Museet to Join VR Company Acute Art | Frieze". Frieze. 10 July 2018. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
^Wolfgang Hahn Prize Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig Köln.
^ abc"Daniel Birnbaum, Director, joins the board of the Hilma af Klint Foundation". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
^"Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen". Serpentine Galleries. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
^"Pinacoteca – Hilma af Klint: Mundos Possíveis". pinacoteca.org.br. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
^Alex Greenberger (July 10, 2018), Daniel Birnbaum Announces Exit from Moderna Museet to Direct VR Company Acute Art ARTnews.
^Schellhammer, Erich P. (2000). "Review of The Hospitality of Presence: Problems of Otherness in Husserl's Phenomenology". The Review of Metaphysics. 54 (1): 131–133. ISSN 0034-6632. JSTOR 20131493.
^"The Hospitality of Presence". Sternberg Press. Retrieved 2020-08-23.