Bern Biennale restructures Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees of the Bern Biennale is being replaced. The previous director Roman Brotbeck will be replaced by Gabriela Eigensatz from Lucerne, who worked as a cultural attaché for Swiss representations abroad until 2012.
Brotbeck played a key role in establishing and developing the transdisciplinary festival and has directed the last three editions (2008, 2010, 2012), the Biennale writes in a press release.
Eigensatz will coordinate the Bern Biennale 2014 Board of Trustees with immediate effect. The other members of the Board of Trustees are Kathleen Bühler, Peter Fischer, Sophie-Thérèse Krempl, Maike Lex, Christian Pauli, Raphael Urweider and Georg Weinand. Together they will design the program for the upcoming festival, which will take place in September 2014.
Gabriela Eigensatz studied Latin American literature in Mexico City and graduated as a Hispanist from London University. While still a student, she joined the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.
Since then, she has worked as a cultural attaché at the Swiss representations in Washington, Madrid and New York. Her last post was in Berlin, from where she returned to the head office in Bern in April 2012.
