Guest Curator

Daniel Baumann

Daniel Baumann is a Swiss art historian (lic. ès lettres, Université de Genève), curator, and critic. He served as curator from 1996 to 2014 of the Adolf Wölfli Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland. In 1997, he curated Martin Kippenberger. Respektive at Mamco in Geneva. He was the curator of Kunsttangente, a public art project in Basel, Switzerland (2003-2010), and curated, in 2003, Junge Szene at Secession in Vienna. In 2004, he started an exhibition series in Tbilisi, Georgia (until 2009/2016). In 2009, he curated Fantastic Tavern: The Tbilisi Avant-Garde at Casey Kaplan Gallery in New York (in collaboration with Nana Kipiani). From 2008 to 2013, Baumann ran the Basel exhibition space New Jerseyy together with Tobias Madison, Emanuel Rossetti, and Dan Solbach. He was the curator of the 2013 Carnegie International at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, along with Dan Byers and Tina Kukielski. He is a contributor to magazines such as artforumFriezePiktogram, Spike, et al. Daniel Baumann is the Director of Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland, since 2015.