Exhibitions organized and co-organized by Biesenbach at KW Institute for Contemporary Art • Peter Moors, Andreas Rost, new works (1991) • Ankunft:
Valie Export,
Leiko Ikemura, Christina Kubisch, Christiane Möbus, Maria Vedder,
Joan Jonas and Aura Rosenberg (1992) • Sans Frontieres: an Art in Ruins installation by Glyn Banks and Hannah Vowles with support of
DAAD (1992) • 37 Räume (1992) • Getrennte Welten – with
Nan Goldin and
Gundula Schulze-Eldowy (1992) • KW studios 92/93 with Fritz Balthaus, Alyssa de Lucia, Gero Gries, Ulrike Grossarth, Sabine Hornig, Günther Underburger (1993–1992) •
Milovan Markovic: Privat (1993) •
Sabine Hornig: Ateliereinbau II, co-organized (1993) •
Douglas Gordon: 24-h-Psycho (1993) •
Tony Oursler: White Trash (1993) • Kunst: Sprache, group exhibition, co-organized (1994) •
Monica Bonvicini: Die Ecken des Lebens oder über eine perspektivische Architektur der Wahrheit (1994) • Günter Unterburger, presentation of new sculptures (1994) • Oniscus murarius: Constantino Ciervo, Ottmar Kiefer and Ampelio Zappalorto (1994) •
Tony Oursler: Horror (1994) •
Joseph Kosuth: Berlin Chronicle, a Temporary Media Monument for
Walter Benjamin (1994) • Spiral Jetty – Hotel Palenque, installations by
Robert Smithson (1994) • Inez van Laamsweerde/Judy Fox, sculpture and photography curated with Katrin Becker (1995) • Christine Hill, first solo exhibition (1995) • Matthias Hoch: new photography (1995) • Paul Armand Gette, site specific installation (1995) •
Ulrike Grossarth: Reste vom Mehrwert (1995) •
Jutta Koether: DÉBORDEMENT (1995) •
Bruce Nauman: Changing Light Corridor with Rooms (1995) •
Vito Acconci: The Red Tapes (1995) • Jürgen Albrecht, first solo exhibition, co-organized (1995) • Sonnenstunden – Das Bankprojekt, 3 Jahre Vera Bourgeois (1995) • Hannes Rickli: Kugel (1995) • Katrin Hoffert, first solo exhibition (1995) •
Christine Borland: From life (1996) • Bodo Schlack, new paintings (1996) • Preparation of the 1.
berlin biennial for contemporary art (1996) • Gunda Förster, site-specific illumination of
Kunst-Werke (1996) • Café Bravo, a pavilion designed by
Dan Graham for the courtyard of the KW (1998) •
Elke Krystufek: I am your mirror (1999) • Construction Drawings (1999) •
Dan Graham: Pavilions (1999) • Woodland: Susanne Gertud Kriemann, co-organized (1999) • Eija Liisa Ahtila: ME/WE; OKAY; GRAY (1999) • Joachim Koester: Untitled (La Nuit Americaine) (1999) • Tony Oursler: Frozen (1999) • Sommeraccrochage (1999) • Exhibitions for the Re-Opening of
Kunst-Werke (1999) • Warten (1999) •
Matthew Barney: Cremaster 2 (2000) • Piotr Uklanski: Die Nazis (2000) • Lara Schnitger, first German solo exhibition (2000) • Mick O'Shea, site specific installation (2000) • Paul Pfeiffer, first European solo exhibition (2000) • Dinos und Jake Chapman: What the hell I-X (2000) •
Francisco de Goya: Desastres de la Guerra (2000) • Erik Steinbrecher: Couch Park (2000) • John Isaacs: A Necessary Change of Heart (2000) • Sencer Vardarman: Corridors (2000) • Jordan Crandall: Drive, Track 1 (2000) • Nic Hess: Dolly II (2000) •
Santiago Sierra, first German solo exhibition (2000) •
Ghada Amer, New Paintings (2000) •
Jonathan Meese, Performance and solo presentation (2000) • Never Mind the Nineties, a lecture series including
Rirkrit Tiravanija,
Douglas Gordon,
Gabriel Orozco,
Christine Borland,
Pipilotti Rist,
Jake and Dinos Chapman,
Angela Bulloch, and
Tobias Rehberger; Artclub, co-organized with Katharina Sieverding (2000) •
Ulrike Ottinger, Abbas Kiarostami (2001) •
Abbas Kiarostami, selection of photographs of the Iranian filmmaker (2001) •
Doug Aitken: I am in you, solo exhibition in collaboration with
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, co-organized (2001) • Christoph Keller: Encyclopaedia Cinematographica, co-organized (2001) •
Takashi Murakami: Special Mission Project ko2 (2001) •
Henry Darger, Disasters of War (2001) • Heike Baranowsky, first solo survey of media-based works (2001) •
Jane & Louise Wilson, installation of the British artist duo, co-organized (2002) •
Francis Alÿs - Alejandro González Iñárritu (2002) • Mexico City: An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values (2002) •
Hedi Slimane: Berlin (2003) •
Taryn Simon: The Innocents (2004) •
Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz (2007) • Political/Minimal (2008) •
Christoph Schlingensief, co-organized (2013) •
Ryan Trecartin, Site Visit, co-organized (2014)
Exhibitions organized and co-organized by Biesenbach at MoMA PS1 • MoMA PS1 opening exhibition co-curated with
Alanna Heiss, Michael Tarantino and Kazue Kobata (1997) • Generation Z, co-organized (1999) • The Promise of Photography, a selection of the photographic collection of the DZ Bank (1999) • Children of Berlin (1999–2000) • Greater New York, ko-organisiert (2000) • Disasters of War (2000) • Takashi Murakami: Transformer (2000) • Special Mission Project ko2: Takashi Murakami (2001) • Kimsooja (2001) •
Henry Darger, Disasters of War (2001) • Loop – Alles auf Anfang (2001–2002) • Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust, organized with Christopher Eamon and Barbara London (2002) • Mexico City: An Exhibition About the Exchange Rate of Bodies and Values (2002) •
Chris Cunningham (2002) • First Steps, emerging artists from Japan (2003) •
Taryn Simon: The Innocents (2003) •
Hedi Slimane: Berlin (2003) • Hard Light, co-organized with
Doug Aitken (2004) • Greater New York, co-organized (2005) •
Johannes Van Der Beek, part of group show "Special Projects" (2005) • Into Me/Out of Me (2006) • Abbas Kiarostami: Image Maker (2007) • Mark Lewis: Northumberland (2007) •
Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz (2007) •
Kenneth Anger, co-organized with Susanne Pfeffer (2009) • Michael Joaquin Grey (2009) • Jonathan Horowitz: And/Or (2009) • 100 Years (version #2, PS1, Nov. 2009) • Mickalene Thomas: Le Déjeuner Sur L'herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires (2010) • Greater New York, co-organized (2010) • On-Site 3: Mickalene Thomas (2010) • Feng Mengbo (2010) • Laurel Nakadate (2011) •
Francis Alÿs (2011) •
Jeremy Shaw: Best Minds (2011) • Rania Stephan (2011) •
Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever, co-organized (2011) • Ferhat Özgür: I Can Sing (2012) • Max Brand: no solid footing – (trained) duck fighting a crow (2012) •
Kraftwerk – Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (2012) • Cyprien Gaillard: The Crystal World (2013) • Jeff Elrod: Nobody Sees Like Us (2013) • Zero Tolerance (2014) • Francesco Vezzoli: Teatro Romano (2014) • Rockaway Projekte with Patti Smith, Janet Cardiff, Adrián Villar Rojas in Rockaway Beach (2014) •
Christoph Schlingensief, co-organized (2014) • Korakrit Arunanondchai (2014) • Halil Altindere: Wonderland (2015) •
Björk's Stonemilker by Andrew Thomas Huang (2015) • Wael Shawky: Cabaret Crusades (2015) •
Katharina Grosse: Rockaway!, painted house on the ocean (2016) • Cao Fei (2016) • Vito Acconci: Where We Are Now (Who Are We Anyway?) (2016) • Stanya Kahn: Stand in the Stream (2017) • Alvaro Barrington (Painting Studio) (2017) • Michael E Smith (2017) • Land: Zhang Huan and Li Binyuan (2018) • Reza Abdoh, co-organized (2018) • Walter Price: New Paintings (2018) • Elle Pérez: Diabolo (2018) • Rockaway! Narcissus Garden by Yayoi Kusama (2018)
Exhibitions organized and co-organized by Biesenbach at MoMA • New Works/ New Acquisitions, co-organized with Ann Temkin (2004) • Take Two. Worlds and Views: Contemporary Art from the Collection, co-organized with Roxana Marcoci (2005) •
Douglas Gordon: Timeline (2006) •
Doug Aitken: Sleepwalkers, co-commissioned with Creative Time (2007) •
Abbas Kiarostami: Image Maker (2007) •
Sigalit Landau: Projects 87 (2008) •
Olafur Eliasson: Take your time. co-curated with Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Department of Photography (2008) •
Pipilotti Rist: Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters) (2008) •
Roman Ondák: Performance 4 (2009) •
Tehching Hsieh: Performance 1 (2009) •
William Kentridge: Five Themes, co-organized (2010) •
Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present (2010) •
Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures (2010) •
Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception (2011) •
Kraftwerk – Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (2012) • Antony and the Johnsons: Swanlights with Symphony Orchestra, commissioned by
MoMA and performed at
Radio City Music Hall (2012) •
Björk (2015) •
Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971 (2015) •
Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (2016) • Teiji Furuhashi: Lovers, co-organized (2016) •
Xaviera Simmons: The Gold Miner's Mission to Dwell on the Tide Line (Dez 2015 – May 2017) • Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection, co-organized (2017) • The Modern Window:
Firelei Báez, MoMA (2018–2019)
Exhibitions organized and co-organized by Biesenbach at Neue Nationalgalerie • Our Space to Help: Fundraiser at the Neue Nationalgalerie, initiated by Klaus Biesenbach, in collaboration with
Anne Imhof and
Olafur Eliasson (2022) •
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: Rosas. Dark Red (2022) • Maria Kulikovska: »254«, Performance (2022) •
Barbara Kruger: Bitte lachen / Please cry (2022) • »Sound in the Garden«, series of concerts initiated by Klaus Biesenbach (2022) • A Day in Greenery: The Kulturforum Gardens Programme (2022) •
Simone Forti: Huddle (2022) •
Allora & Calzadilla, Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on "Ode to Joy" for a Prepared Piano (2022) •
Monica Bonvicini: I do you (2022) •
Isa Genzken: 75/75 (2023) • »Sound in the Garden«, series of events with MARYAM.fyi, caner tekker: KIRKPINAR, Älice, Wandermüd, Imran Ayata & Bülent Kullukcu with Cavidan Ünal, and Deep Gold Band • Reference Festival x Neue Nationalgalerie: Transition (2023) • Perform! with
Yoko Ono:
Cut Piece, and Göksu Kunak: Venus (2023) •
Ulrich Rückriem: 40 Floor Reliefs (2023-2024) •
Josephine Baker: Icon in Motion (2024) •
Pussy Riot: Rage (2024) •
Lucy Raven (2024) • Miles Greenberg: Sebastian, Venice Biennale (2024) •
Andy Warhol: Velvet Rage and Beauty (2024)
Additional solo and group exhibitions organized and co-organized by Biesenbach • Installation by
Kumiko Shimizu, Elisabethkirche, Berlin, co-organized (1991) • Dialog im
Bode Museum mit
Isa Genzken,
Klaus vom Bruch,
Svetlana und Igor Kopystiansky, Strawalde, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Bode-Museum Berlin (1992) • Christo vor der Verhüllung, Marstall Berlin with Gabriele Muschter (1993) • Deutschland wird Deutscher, a project throughout Berlin organized in collaboration with
Katharina Sieverding and
UdK (1993) • Club Berlin,
Venice Biennale (1995) • Projected Images:
Venice Biennale (1995) • Nach Weimar, Weimar, co-organized (1996) • Hybrid Workspace bei der
Documenta X, Kassel, co-organized (1997) • 1.
Berlin Biennale for contemporary art, co-organized (1998) • Site Construction with Monica Bonvicini, Thomas Demand, Manfred Pernice, Jonathan Meese, South London Gallery (1998) •
Henry Darger, Disasters of War, Migros Museum, Zurich; Watari-Um, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Magazin 3, Stockholm Konsthall (2001) • Loop - Alles auf Anfang, Kunsthalle of the Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich and Cincinnati (2001– 2002) •
Shanghai Biennale, co-organized (2002) • First Steps, emerging artists from Japan, Tokyo Convention Center, co-organized (2001) • The Ten Commandments, a large-scale group show with 63 international artists,
Deutsches Hygienemuseum Dresden (2004) •
Francis Alÿs, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2004) •
Andy Warhol, Moving Pictures, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, MALBA Buenos Aires (2004/2005) • Regarding Terror: The Red Army Faction-Exhibition, Berlin and Graz, co-organized (2005) • 11 Rooms, with Hans Ulrich Obrist at Manchester Art Gallery (2011) • 12 Rooms, with Hans Ulrich Obrist at Museum Folkwang, Essen (2012) • 13 Rooms, with Hans Ulrich Obrist at Kaldor Public Art Projects, Sydney (2013) • 14 Rooms, with Hans Ulrich Obrist at Beyeler Fondation, Basel (2014) • 15 Rooms, with
Hans Ulrich Obrist at Long Museum, Shanghai (2014) • Procesion Migracion con Papo Colo as an Ecology Procession through the rain forest in Puerto Rico (2016) • ..com/.cn, K11, Shanghai, traveled to K11, Hong Kong (2017–18) == Publications ==