Alain Bieber is the artistic director of NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. Bieber has been curating solo and group exhibitions all over Europe since 2004 on topics such as web and media art, pop culture and photography. Bieber studied rhetoric, literature, sociology, communication and political science from 1999 to 2005 in Tübingen and Paris. Before being appointed artistic director, he worked in the culture department of the European television network ARTE in Strasbourg, where he was head of the creative lab ARTE Creative. Prior to that, he was an editor at the magazine ART in Hamburg and a lecturer at several universities in Germany and France. Since 2022, Bieber is head of the collection of time-based media at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf.