Short Bio

Alain Bieber is a German-French cultural manager. He is the artistic director of the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf and co-founder of Rosy DX, Studio for Digital Transformation. For about 20 years he has been organizing exhibitions with contemporary artists, especially in the fields of net and media art, pop culture and photography, which caused a sensation: among others with Jan Böhmermann, on algorithms, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and pizza. Bieber studied rhetoric, literature, sociology, communication and political science in Tübingen and Paris, and previously headed the creative lab ARTE Creative in Strasbourg and was an editor at the art magazine ART in Hamburg.

Curatorial Statement

'I see a lot every day. Actually too much. Too many pictures, too many sensory impressions, too much art, and too much everyday life. I need photography that gets me out of my everyday life. I need unusual ideas and perspectives, experimental, courageous and radical approaches. And I need photography that touches me personally, that mixes with my own stories, with long forgotten experiences. And that's what these ten selected pictures do. They are aesthetic associations, triggers for tingling head cinema. Sensual, touching, also somehow strange - but just really good.'

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