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06.11.2009
KLAUS BIESENBACH APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF P.S.1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
Klaus Biesenbach has been appointed Director of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, it was announced by Glenn D. Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art, and Agnes Gund, Chairman of the Board of P.S.1. Biesenbach, currently Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at MoMA and Chief Curatorial Advisor at P.S.1, succeeds Founding Director Alanna Heiss, who retired in 2008 to establish Art International Radio. Biesenbach will take over as Director in January 2010. P.S.1, which was founded in Long Island City, Queens, in 1976, became affiliated with MoMA in 2000.
Biesenbach joined P.S.1 as Curator in 1996; in 2004 he was appointed Curator in MoMA´s Department of Film and Media and became Chief Curatorial Advisor at P.S.1. He was named Chief Curator of MoMA´s newly formed Department of Media in 2006, which was subsequently broadened to the Department of Media and Performance Art in 2009 to reflect the Museum´s increased focus on collecting, preserving, and exhibiting performance art.
In his new role, Mr. Biesenbach will also serve as a Chief Curator at Large at MoMA.
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