Contributors

Daniel Baumann

Curator

Currently living in Basel, Switzerland, Daniel Baumann is one of a three-person team of curators to organise the 56th Carnegie International, which opens in October 2013. A curator of the Adolf Wölfli Foundation at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern, Switzerland, Baumann is also the co-founder of the Shift Festival for Digital Arts, established in 2007, and New Jerseyy, an internationally acclaimed exhibition space in Basel dedicated to contemporary art, film, music, and publishing. Additionally, Baumann is the curator of Nordtangente-Kunsttangente, a Basel-based project for art in public spaces. Highlights of Baumann’s career include the landmark 2003 show on Swiss visionary outsider artist Adolf Wölfli at the American Folk Art Museum in New York, NY, USA. In 1997, he organised the first retrospective of Martin Kippenberger’s work, 'Martin Kippenberger. Respektive 1997–1976', at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Geneva, Switzerland, and, in 1998, together with Peter Pakesch, the first survey of Kippenberger’s self-portraits, 'Martin Kippenberger. Die Selbstporträts', at Kunsthalle Basel. Baumann has published more than 100 articles in catalogues and publications such as Camera Austria, Kunst-Bulletin, Flash Art, Mousse, Pacemaker, Parkett, Piktogram, and Spike Art Quarterly.