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Daniel Birnbaum

Daniel Birnbaum directs Portikus, an exhibition space for international contemporary art, and the Städelschule Art Academy, both in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Born in 1963, he completed doctoral studies in 1998 and has held important curatorial and academic posts in his native Sweden. He organized Momentum, the 1998 Nordic Art Festival, in Moss, Norway, and directed the International Artists’ Studio Program in Stockholm from 1997–2000. 

Birnbaum has been the curator of more than 50 exhibitions, including Ain’t Ordinarily So: Tobias Rehberger, Henrik Plenge,Jakobsen, Carsten Holler and Miriam Backstrom, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, and Urgent Painting, Musee d’Art de la Ville de Paris, 2002. In 2003, he was co-curator of Delays & Revolutions, Italian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, and was one of the curators for the 2005 Moscow Biennale.

An art critic and journalist for the last 20 years, Birnbaum is the author of numerous articles on art and philosophy. He contributes regularly to Frieze, Parkett, and Artforum.  His most recent book of art criticism, Chronology, was published by Lukas & Sternbeg in 2005. He has translated and written on a range of philosophical works by Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. 

Richard Flood

Richard Flood is chief curator at The New Museum, New York City’s only museum devoted exclusively to contemporary art. Prior to his appointment at The New Museum in 2005, Flood served as chief curator and deputy director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, from 1994 to 2004. At the Walker, he was curator of  numerous exhibitions, including the works of Sigmar Polke; llumination, Brilliant; New Art from London; No Place (Like Home); Robert Gober: Sculpture + Drawing; Matthew Barney; Cremaster 2: The Drones' Exposition; and, with Frances Morris of Tate Modern, London, he co-curated Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera, 1962–1972. Flood’s career also includes posts curator at P.S.1, director of Barbara Gladstone Gallery, and managing editor of Artforum Magazine.

Flood has written extensively on contemporary art and film for Artforum, Frieze, and Parkett. He lectures at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and London’s Royal College of Art.

Eungie Joo

Eungie Joo is director and curator of education and public programs at The New Museum, New York. Her most recent curatorial projects include Nothing Is Neutral: Andrea Bowers; Damián Ortega: The Beetle Trilogy and Other Works; Kara E. Walker’s Song of the South; Margaret Kilgallen: In the Sweet Bye & Bye; and Cosmo Vitale: Gimhongsok & Sora Kim. Prior to her appointment at REDCAT, in 2003, Joo organized Abstruction at Artists Space, New York, and was co-curator of Time after Time: Asia and Our Moment at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.

In additional to her curatorial roles, Joo is co-founder of Six Months: Crenshaw (2003), a temporary site in Los Angeles for conversation, exhibition, performance, and collectivity through dialogue and critique. She has contributed to exhibition catalogues on Edgar Arceneaux, Mark Bradford, Barry McGee, Taro Shinoda, Lorna Simpson, and Kara Walker. She is a  contributing editor of Art AsiaPacific Magazine and writes for numerous contemporary art publications.

Joo completed a doctorate in ethnic studies at the University of California in 2002. She is a board member of the William H. Johnson Foundation and serves on the advisory boards of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Afterall, and Side Street Projects.

Chus Martínez

In 2006, Chus Martínez beame the first woman director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein in its 175-year history. Since her appointment, the 34-year-old, Spanish-born curator has presented the exhibitions Ersa Ersen, Wilhelm Sasnal, and Arturas Raila.

From 2002–2005 she was the artistic director of Sala Rekalde, the premier contemporary art space in Bilbao, Spain. Also in 2005, Martinez served as curator for Gravy Planet, the National Pavilion of Cyprus, at the 51st Venice Biennale. Earlier curatorial roles included the Barcelona project space of the La Caixa Foundation, where she organized Lowest Common Denominator, a series of five projects that included Dora García (Spain), Behoña Muñoz (Spain), Oriol Font (Spain), Elgreem & Dragset (Denmark/Norway), and Tobias Rehberger (Germany).

A regular lecturer at the Royal College of Art (London), the Oslo Fine Art Academy, and HISK (Antwerp), Martínez is also an art critic and frequent writer for Afterall. Her exhibition related publications include an essay on Jennifer and Kevin McCoy for the British Film Institute. Martínez completed a graduate degree in curatorial studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. She is currently writing a doctoral thesis on the interface between aesthetics and art philosophy.