Category: Curator
Nationality: American
Last Year: New
Chief curator at Turin’s Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art since 2001, formerly senior curator at New York’s P.S.1 and boasting a CV brimming with bold curatorial moves, Carolyn Christov- Bakargiev is currently clutching one of her profession’s grails. In December, she was named artistic director of Documenta 13, which opens in 2012. As her stewardship of 2008’s Biennale of Sydney proved, she knows about expos; and as was demonstrated by The Pantagruel Syndrome – her 2005 curatorial exploration (with Francesco Bonami) of contemporary excess and giganticism – she knows about big. What better preparation for the hassles of Kassel?