Sabine Himmelsbach

In March 2012, Sabine Himmelsbach became the artistic director of the House of Electronic Arts Basel (CH). She studied art history at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (DE). 1993–1996 she worked for galleries in Munich and Vienna (AT), and later became project manager of exhibitions and conferences for the Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz (AT). In 1999 she became exhibition director at the ZKM | Karlsruhe (DE). 2005–2011 she was artistic director of the Edith-Russ-Site for Media Art in Oldenburg (DE). Her exhibition projects include “Fast Forward” (2003), “Coolhunters” (2004), “Playback_Simulated Realities” (2006), “Ecomedia: Ecological Strategies in Today’s Art” (2007), “Landscape 2.0” (2009), “MyWar. Participation in an Age of Conflict” (2010), “Culture(s) of Copy” (2011), and “Gateways. Art and Networked Culture” (2011).