Tobias Berger, born in 1969 in Wiesbaden, is chief curator at the Nam June Paik Art Center in Seoul, South Korea.

After graduating in art history and economic science from the Ruhr-University Bochum (1991-1998), Berger completed the DeAppel Curatorial Training Programme in Amsterdam in 1998/1999. He then worked as a curator at the Museum Fridericianum in Kassel until the end of 2001, where he was responsible for a number of exhibitions including “Change is Good” (1999/2000), “Flexibilitätsversuche” (2000) and “German Leitkultur” (2001).

In 2002, Berger was artistic director of the 8th Baltic Triennial of International Art in Vilnius, Lithuania, which presented more than 50 East European and international artists in an exhibition entitled “Center of Attraction.” Between 2003 and March 2005, he was director of ARTSPACE/NZ in Auckland, New Zealand. From April 2005 to December 2008, he was the managing director and curator of the Para/Site Art Space in Hong Kong. In 2004, he was responsible for developing the concept for the New Zealand contribution to the Sao Paulo Biennial and in the same year in New Zealand, he curated sections of the Auckland Triennial and “Work It!” for the Art & Industry Biennial in Christchurch. Other international Biennial projects which included exhibitions organized by Berger include Guangzhou, China (2005) and Busan, South Korea (2006).

Berger´s curatorial work is regularly accompanied by lectures and publications.