Alain Bieber studied rhetorics, sociology, literature and political science in Tübingen and Paris. He works as a art critic, blogger, project manager and curator in Strasbourg. In 2004 he founded rebel:art, a platform for art, culture and politics. The last three years he worked as a journalist for the german ART magazine in Hamburg, from 2010 to march 2015 he is editor in chief of ARTE Creative in Strasbourg. From april 2015 on he will be the artistic director of the museum NRW Forum in Düsseldorf.