Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (b. 1957, Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA) is an art historian, author, curator and the director of Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea and Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti in Turin. In 2019 she received the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence. Previously, she was senior curator at PS1 MoMA in New York, from 1999 to 2001; chief curator at Castello di Rivoli (2002-08); the artistic director of the 16th Biennale of Sydney in 2008; the artistic director of documenta 13 in 2012 in Kassel, as well as in Kabul, Afghanistan; Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt; and Banff, Canada; the curator of the 14th edition of the Istanbul Biennial in 2015 and, in 2016, she directed the Castello di Rivoli and the GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, both in Turin (2016-17).

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