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 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of Vienna. He was artistic director of documenta 12 (2007) and the Busan Biennale (2012). From 2007 to 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).