Alain Bieber

Alain Bieber has been the artistic director of NRW-Forum Düsseldorf  since April 2015. Bieber has been curating solo and group exhibitions all over Europe since 2004 on topics such as street art, post-internet art, web and media art, political art, gaming and photography. He has also initiated numerous cultural projects, including the weblog "rebel:art" in 2004, the International Sticker Award in 2005, the video magazine "OH!" in 2007, and in 2009 the magazine club and virtual kiosk "GuteSeiten" and the exhibition project "Parasites - illegal exhibitions". Bieber studied rhetoric, literature, sociology, communication and political science from 1999 to 2005 at Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and the Institut d'études politiques in Paris. Before being appointed artistic director of NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, he worked in the culture department of the European television network ARTE in Strasbourg, where he was head of the creative lab ARTE Creative. Prior to that, he was an editor at the magazine ART in Hamburg and a lecturer at several universities in Germany and France.