1. Daniel Birnbaum is a Swedish art curator and an art critic.
12 Facts About Daniel Birnbaum
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Daniel Birnbaum has been the curator of institutions and exhibitions in many countries, for which he has produced catalogue entries.
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Between 2001 and 2010, Daniel Birnbaum held the position of Rector at the Stadelschule fine arts academy in Frankfurt am Main in Germany.
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Daniel Birnbaum served on the juries for the Turner Prize and the first Future Generation Art Prize.
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From 2010 to 2018, Daniel Birnbaum served as the director of Moderna Museet, the museum of modern art in Stockholm.
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In 2015, Birnbaum chaired the jury that awarded the Museum Ludwig's Wolfgang Hahn Prize to Michael Krebber and R H Quaytman.
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Daniel Birnbaum was the co-curator of Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen with Emma Enderby at the Serpentine Galleries in 2016 and of Hilma af Klint: Possible Worlds with Jochen Volz at the Pinacoteca in Sao Paulo in 2018.
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Daniel Birnbaum has been an adjunct board member of the Hilma Af Klint Foundation since 2017.
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In 2018, Daniel 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.
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Daniel Birnbaum published articles in other international art magazines such as frieze.
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Daniel Birnbaum has written on artists Olafur Eliasson, Pierre Huyghe, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cerith Wyn Evans and Paul Chan.
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Daniel Birnbaum has produced academic texts and translations on Novalis, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Derrida, Thomas Bernhard, and Jean-Francois Lyotard:.