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Christoph Grunenberg was appointed Director of Tate Liverpool in March
2001.

Christoph’s previous appointment was as a Curator in the Collections Division of
Tate, which he joined in August 1999. He was born and educated in
Germany, but came to London to complete a masters degree and then a
Ph.D. at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. He has
subsequently worked at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.,
the Kunsthalle in Basel and at the Institute of Contemporary Art in
Boston, where he was Curator from 1995 to 1999, as well as acting
Director during 1997 and 1998.

He has curated a number of important exhibitions. During his period in
Basel these included Rachel Whiteread and in Boston Gothic:
Transmutations of Horror in Late 20th Century Art 1997; Enterprise:
Venture and Process in Contemporary Art 1997; and FRIEZE: Wall Paintings
by Franz Ackermann, John Armleder, Margaret Kilgallen, Sarah Morris, and
Alexander Scott 1999. At Tate Liverpool these include Marc Quinn;
Shopping: A Century of Art and Consumer Culture; Mike Kelley: The
Uncanny; Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era, Jake and Dinos
Chapman: Bad Art for Bad People and, most recently, Peter Blake: A
Retrospective. He is also chairing the Jury for the 2007 Turner Prize
which will take place at Tate Liverpool.