The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) in New York announced today that Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the director of Castello di Rivoli in Turin, Italy, has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence. She will be presented with the annual $25,000 prize at the CCS Bard Gala Celebration on April 17, 2019.
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (b. 1957, Ridgewood, New Jersey, US) is an Italian and American author, an organizer of events and exhibitions, and a researcher of artistic practices, the histories of art and the politics of aesthetics and multispecies co-evolution. She is the Director of Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea and Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti in Turin and is currently completing the expansion of the museum to incorporate the Cerruti Collection (May 2019). Additionally, she is Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor in Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University (2013–ongoing).
Previously,...she was senior curator at MoMA PS1, artistic director of the sixteenth Biennale of Sydney, artistic director of Documenta 13—which took place in Kassel, Germany; Kabul, Afghanistan; Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt; and Banff, Canada—and curator of the fourteenth edition of the Istanbul Biennial. As a prolific writer, she has authored numerous works, including the book Arte Povera (Phaidon Press, 1999) and the first monographs on artists William Kentridge and Janet Cardiff.
“I am very pleased to receive this important award, and to follow many other visionary people who have received it before me,” Christov-Bakargiev said in a statement. “To young people approaching our field I wish to say: act committedly, act with skepticism, and act understanding that we serve the artists and no-one else.”
Past recipients include Helen Molesworth and Hans Ulrich Obrist (2011), Ann Goldstein (2012), Elisabeth Sussman (2013), Charles Esche (2014), Christine Tohme and Martha Wilson (2015), Thelma Golden (2016), Nicholas Serota (2017), and Lia Gangitano (2018).
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