Roger Buergel

Roger Buergel is a curator, writer, and university teacher. He is currently the founding director of the Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich, a research institution devoted to global trade routes due to open in mid-2013. Buergel studied at the Academu of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of Vienna. He was artistic director of documenta 12 (2007) and the Busan Biennale (2012). From 2007 - 2009 he taught art history at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe. He has curated exhibitions since the mid-1990s, including "Ai Weiwei: Barely Something" at Museum DKM (Duisburg, 2010); "How do we want to be governed?" at Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Barcelona, 2004); "The Subject and Power (The Lyrical Voice)" at Central House of Artist (Moscow, 2001); "Governmentaly. Art in Conflict with the International Hyperbourgeoisie and the National Petty Bourgeoisie" at EXPO2000 (Hanover, 2000); and "Things We Don't Understand," with Ruth Noack, at Generali Foundation (Vienna, 2000).