Category: Curator
Nationality: Italian
Last Year: Reentry (63 in 2002)
Four decades after he coined the term Arte Povera, Germano Celant is still moulding perceptions of art in and outside Italy. Senior curator of contemporary art at the Guggenheim, New York, Celant has also been director of the Prada Foundation since 1995, overseeing its admirable stream of biannual shows: the most recent being by Natalie Djurberg. And when, by 2012, the organisation opens its 1,600-square-metre Rem Koolhaas-designed landmark of a museum in Milan – a venue for the 500-plus contemporary artworks Miuccia Prada has collected since 1993 – he’ll run it. Celant, says Mrs Prada, ‘taught me quality’. Enough said.