Daniel Birnbaum is the director and curator of Acute Art. He was the former Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Among his most recent projects as a curator are the 1st Moscow Biennale (2005), Airs de Paris (with Christine Macel) at the Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2007), the 2nd Yokohama Triennial (2008), and Zero (with Tijs Visser) at Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, 2015). In 2009, he was Director of the fifty-third Venice Biennale. Birnbaum coauthored, together with Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Spacing Philosophy: Lyotard and the Idea of the Exhibition (Berlin, 2019).