Since March 2012, Sabine Himmelsbach is the new director of HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel). After studying art history in Munich she worked for galleries in Munich and Vienna from 1993\u20131996 and later became project manager for exhibitions and conferences for the Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz, Austria. In 1999 she became exhibition director at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. From 2005\u20132011 she was the artistic director of the Edith-Russ-House for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany. Her exhibition projects include \u2018Fast Forward\u2019 (2003); \u2018Coolhunters\u2019 (2004);
\u2018Ecomedia\u2019 (2007); \u2018MyWar\u2019 (2010) and \u2018Culture(s) of Copy\u2019 (2011). 2011 she curated \u2018gateways. Art and Networked Culture\u2019 for the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn as part of the European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011 program. Her exhibitions at HeK in Basel include \u2018Sensing Place\u2019 (2012),\u2018Semiconductor: Let There be Light\u2019 (2013), \u2018Ryoji Ikeda\u2019 (2014), \u2018Poetics and Politics of Data\u2019 (2015), \u2018Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Preabsence\u2019 (2016), \u2018unREAL\u2019 (2017), \u2018Lynn Hershman Leeson: Anti-Bodies\u2019, \u2018Eco-Visionaries\u2019 (2018) and \u2018Entangled Realities. Living with Artificial Intelligence\u2019 (2019). As a writer and lecturer she is dedicated to topics related to media art and digital culture.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Since March 2012, Sabine Himmelsbach is the new director of HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel). After studying art history in Munich she worked for galleries in Munich and Vienna from 1993\u20131996 and later became project manager for exhibitions and conferences for the Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz, Austria. In 1999 she became exhibition director … <\/p>\n