(born 1962), lives in Berlin
Marius Babias is an independent curator, art theoretician and editor. He curated the Romanian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2005, working with the artist Daniel Knorr. Between 2000 and 2004 together with Florian Waldvogel, he ran the program at the Kokerei Zollverein in Essen, a production-space for contemporary art and criticism, which worked with artists to explore socially relevant themes, provoke impulses and ideas, and in turn offer these to a broad public in the form of exhibitions, publications and readers. Projects at the Kokerei Zollverein included: Arbeit Essen Angst (2001) and Die Offene Stadt : Anwendungsmodelle / The Open City : Models for Use (2003). Amongst numerous publications he has editesd and contributed to Im Zentrum der Peripherie (1995), Die Kunst des öffentlichen (1998), Arbeit Essen Angst (2001), Campus (2002) and theHandbuch Antirassismus (2002). Babias is also the author of Herbstnacht (1990), Ich war dabei, als ... (2001) and Ware Subjektivität (2002).