Marius Babias, born in 1962 in Romania, studied literature and political science at the Free University in Berlin. He lives and works as a curator and arts theorist in Berlin. He teaches art and film theory at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2006 he was co-curator of Periferic 7 – International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Iaşi (Romania) and of Check-In Europe, at the European Patent Office, Munich. In 2005 he was the commissioner of the Romanian Pavilion at 51st Venice Biennale and has curated the exhibitions The New Europe, Generali Foundation, Vienna, and Formats for Action, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin. In 2001-2003 he was artistic co-director at the Kokerei Zollverein | Zeitgenössische Kunst und Kritik in Essen. During the period1997-2001 Babias was visiting professor at the Städelschule Academy in Frankfurt/M., at the University of Arts Linz and at the Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Japan. In 1996 he received the Carl Einstein Prize for Art Criticism. Babias is the author of Herbstnacht (Berlin 1989), Ich war dabei, als ... Interviews 1990-2000 (Frankfurt/M. 2001), Ware Subjektivität, Munich 2002 (Subiectivitatea marfa, IDEA, Cluj, 2004) and Berlin. Die Spur der Revolte, Cologne 2006 (Urma revoltei, IDEA, Cluj, 2006). Babias is co-curator (with Sabine Hentzsch) of the project Spaţiul Public Bucureşti | Public Art Bucharest 2007.