Sabine Himmelsbach

Sabine Himmelsbach is director of HEK (House of Electronic Arts) in Basel. After studying art history in Munich she worked for galleries in Munich and Vienna from 1993 to 1996, later becoming project manager for exhibitions and conferences for the Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz, Austria. In 1999, she became exhibition director at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. From 2005 to 2011 she was the artistic director of the Edith-Russ-House for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany. Her exhibitions at HEK in Basel include “Ryoji Ikeda” (2014), “Poetics and Politics of Data” (2015), “Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Preabsence” (2016), “unREAL” (2017), “Lynn Hershman Leeson: Anti-Bodies, Eco-Visionaries” (2018), “Entangled Realities –– Living with Artificial Intelligence” (2019), “Making FASHION Sense” (2020), “Real Feelings –– Emotion and Technology” (2020), and “Earthbound –– In Dialogue with Nature” (2022). In 2021, she curated the online exhibition and conference, “Hybrid by Naturen –– Human.Machine.Interaction” for the Goethe Institutes in Southeast Asia. As a writer and lecturer she is dedicated to topics related to media art and digital culture.