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DANIEL BAUMANN is an art historian and, from 2015 to 2024, was the director of Kunsthalle Zurich. He lives in Basel.

Q/A
What Happened to the Curator?
By Daniel Baumann

The former director of Kunsthalle Zürich on why so many of his colleagues love art, their jobs, and the profession – and yet still want to leave.

On Our Radar
Tops & Flops 2024
By Simon Denny, Daniel Baumann, Biz Sherbert, Jaime Chu, Mindy Seu, Gianni Jetzer, Jeff Poe, Cara Schacter, and Martina Tiefenthaler

In another year eclipsed by right-wing politics and apathetic art, nine Spike trustees separate global culture’s wheat from its chaff.

One Work
Piotr Uklanski, Untitled (Dance Floor), 1996
By Daniel Baumann

In 1996, the Polish artist’s minimalist floor sculpture recast Gavin Brown’s NYC gallery as a disco, distilling the elation of dance and the melancholy of its era’s unfulfillable promise.

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