Born in Germany

Ute Meta Bauer is a freelance curator and professor at the institute for Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She was Artistic Director of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart from 1990-94, and recently worked as co-curator of Documenta 11 (Kassel, 2002). Her projects include Architectures of Discourse (Barcelona, 2001) and First Story – Women Building / New Narratives for the 21st Century (Porto, 2001). Since 2002 she is the founding director of the Norwegian Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo and was Artistic Director of the third Berlin Biennale (2004).