Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev to Depart Castello di Rivoli
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, who has led Turin, Italy’s Castello di Rivoli since 2015, will retire on the finish of 2023 following greater than twenty years of service to the establishment, The Artwork Newspaper studies. The museum has launched a seek for her alternative, who would ideally assume the position in January 2024.
Among the many exhibitions Christov-Bakargiev has just lately curated for the museum are these on digital artist Beeple, painter Giorgio de Chirico, “endurance” artist Anne Imhof, animator William Kentridge, and filmmaker Hito Steyerl. With Marianna Vecellio, she cocurated the group present “Artists in a Time of Struggle,” presently on view on the establishment. A serious survey of the work of Michelangelo Pistoletto, honoring the aritst’s ninetieth birthday, is ready to open there later this 12 months.
Christov-Bakargie was chief curator on the Castello di Rivoli from 2002 to 2008, and served as its interim director for a interval. As director, she oversaw a significant growth of the museum, accomplished in 2019, that allowed it to include the $570 million Francesco Federico Cerruti Assortment into its holdings, making it among the many first modern artwork establishments to assist an encyclopedic assortment. When the Covid-19 pandemic arose, hitting Italy notably onerous, she turned the museum right into a vaccination middle, the primary in Italy to serve this goal.
Acknowledged in 2019 with the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence, introduced by Middle for Curatorial Research at Bard School in New York, Christov-Bakargiev is especially famend for her work as inventive director of Documenta 13 in 2012. The extensively lauded version of the occasion, usually held each 5 years in Kassel, below her steering that 12 months expanded to venues in Kabul, Afghanistan; Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt; and Banff, Canada.
From 2013 to 2015, Christov-Bakargiev served because the Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor in Artwork Principle and Observe at Northwestern College in Illinois. Earlier roles embrace these of senior curator at New York’s MoMA PS1, inventive director of the Sixteenth Biennale of Sydney, and curator of the fourteenth version of the Istanbul Biennial. Among the many many works she has authored are the e book Arte Povera (Phaidon Press, 1999) and the inaugural monographs on artists Janet Cardiff and William Kentridge.