Since 2012, Sabine Himmelsbach is director of HEK (House of Electronic Arts) in Basel, Switzerland. After studying art history in Munich she worked for galleries in Munich and Vienna and later became project manager for exhibitions for the Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz, Austria. In 1999 she became exhibition director at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. From 2005–2011 she was the artistic director of the Edith-Russ-House for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany. Her exhibitions at HEK in Basel include Ryoji Ikeda (2014), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Preabsence (2016), Eco-Visionaries (2018), Entangled Realities. Living with Artificial Intelligence (2019), and Real Feelings. Emotion and Technology (2020). In 2021 she curated the online exhibition and conference Hybrid by Nature. Human.Machine.Interaction for the Goethe Institutes in Southeast Asia. As a writer and lecturer she is dedicated to topics related to media art and digital culture.