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BIRNBAUM & DAVIES

Since 2023, Birnbaum and Davies have collaborated on a series of projects that challenge the orthodoxies of institutional curation and pay little respect to traditional ways of categorising and presenting the world of objects that surround us. Drawing on their respective experience and expertise they have developed a unique practice that challenges the label of “curator” manifesting itself in innovative ways across different projects. In a variety of institutional contexts – galleries, archives, libraries and leading art schools – they have explored trans-disciplinary methodologies of exhibition production that juxtapose historical material with works of art, as well as elements from cinema, literature, music, science and cutting-edge digital experimentation. These projects have explored all forms of artistic production, dissemination and transmission, ancient as well as contemporary, from classical cinema to immersive technologies and augmented and mixed reality.  

Their research into innovative forms of curation has included seminars and workshops at Goldsmiths in London and the Städelschule in Frankfurt, as well as a series of exhibitions and institutional interventions in Athens, London, Paris and Stockholm.

Their work continues with upcoming exhibitions and publications in Italy and Latin America in 2025.

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PROJECTS BY DATE

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The Quantum Effect 
SMAC San Marco Art Centre, Venice

5 September - 23 November 2025
Curators: Jacqui Davies & Daniel Birnbaum

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Tremulations
Latin America
November 2025

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Tremulations
Stockholm

November 2024 – February 2025
Curated by Jacqui Davies & Daniel Birnbaum

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Tremulations
No Name, Paris

October 2024 – January 2025
Curated by Jacqui Davies & Daniel Birnbaum

Tremulations London

Tremulations
Swedenborg House, London

April – June 2023
Curated by Jacqui Davies & Daniel Birnbaum

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Authors: Daniel Birnbaum & Jacqui Davies
Buchhandlung Walther König

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Dream Machines
Deste Foundation, Slaughterhouse, Hydra

June to October 2023
Dream Machines 
film by Jacqui Davies
Curated by Daniel Birnbaum and Massimiliano Gioni

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Prefiguring the Virtual
Talk at Goldsmiths University of London and
Städelschule, Frankfurt

2023-2024

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PRIMITIVE FILM is supported by the BFI’s Vision Awards

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