Klaus Biesenbach is Chief Curator of MoMA's Department of Media and also serves as the Chief Curatorial Advisor at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA affiliate, where he has curated various exhibitions.
Background:
He is the Founding Director / Chairman Emeritus of KW (Kunst-Werke) Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Mr. Biesenbach founded the Berlin Biennale in 1996, was a member of the International Jury of the 1997 Venice Biennale, co-organized the "hybrid workspace" of the 1997 Documenta X in Kassel, and co-organized the 2002 Shanghai Biennale. He has organized numerous international touring exhibitions of contemporary art and has edited and contributed to several major monographic and thematic catalogues.