Born 1955 in Zurich, Switzerland
Lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland

Ursula Biemann is an artist, theorist and curator who has in recent years produced a body of work on migration, mobility, technology and gender. In a series of internationally exhibited video projects, as well as in several books ("Been There and Back to Nowhere"(2000), "Geography and the Politics of Mobility"(2003), "Stuff It - The Video Essay in the Digital Age" (2003) she has focused on migrant labour from smuggling on the Spanish-Moroccan border to global migrant sex workers. She made space and mobility her prime category of analysis in the curatorial project "Geography and the Politics of Mobility" (2003) in Vienna, the recent art research projects "The Black Sea Files" on the Caspian oil politics (2005) in Berlin, or "The Maghreb Connection" on Mediterranean mobility, Townhouse Gallery Cairo/CAC Geneva (2006-07). Biemann researches at the Institute for Theory of Art and Design Zurich, lectures at the CCC program of esba Geneva, and teaches seminars and workshops internationally.