Klaus Biesenbach

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Klaus Biesenbach (born 1966) is a German-American curator and museum director. He is the Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie, with Berggruen Museum and Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection, as well as the berlin modern under construction. Previously, Biesenbach had been serving as the director of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), from 2018 to 2021. He is also a former Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City and former director of MoMA PS1. He is also the founding director of Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art (KW) in Berlin, and the Berlin Biennale. Biesenbach was born in July 1966 in Bergisch Gladbach, West Germany and grew up in a rural setting in Kürten. After graduating from high school, he completed a year of alternative civilian service and volunteered at a kibbuz in Israel. From 1987, Biesenbach began studying medicine in Munich, on a scholarship provided by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. In the summer of 1989, he visited New York for the first time with the idea that he might transfer schools but instead completed an internship at Paper. He moved to Berlin in 1989.