Bice Curiger
Studies in History of Art at Zurich University.1984 co-founder and since editor-in-chief of «Parkett», the book series with contemporary artists, published in German and English two times a year in Zurich and New York. Since 1992 curator at Kunsthaus Zurich, the museum of fine arts. Since 2004 also Editorial Director of „Tate etc.“ the magazine of the Tate in London. 2006/07 Rudolf-Arnheim-Professor at Humboldt-University in Berlin. 2007 awarded with the „Heinrich Wölfflin-Medaille“ of the City of Zurich, 2009 SI Award, Swiss Institute New York, 2011 Director of the 54. Venice Biennale.
Selected exhibitions at Kunsthaus Zürich:
«Signs and Wonder – Niko Pirosmani and Contemporary Art», 1995, «Birth of the Cool – American Painting from Georgia O’Keeffe to Christopher Wool», 1997, «Martin Kippenberger – Early Paintings, Sculptures and the Complete Posters», 1998, «Hypermental – Rampant Reality from Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons», 2000, «Public Affairs», 2002, «Georgia O’Keeffe», 2003, «Sigmar Polke – Works & Days», 2005, «The Expanded Eye – Stalking the Unseen», 2006, «Peter Fischli & David Weiss – Flowers and Questions», 2007, »Friedrich Kuhn– Der Maler als Outlaw», 2008, Katharina Fritsch, Kunsthaus Zurich and Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2009.
Exhibitions organised as a free lance curator for international institutions such as Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, («La revue Parkett», 1987), Hayward Gallery London («Double Take – Collective Memory and Recent Art», 1992), Guggenheim Museum New York («Meret Oppenheim», 1996).
Books:
Monography on Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985), «Defiance in the Face of Freedom», MIT Press, 1990, Boston (german edition Zurich 1982), «Looks et tenebrae», Peter Blum Editions, 1983, New York und Zürich. Sigmar Polke, «Music from an Unknown Source», ifa Stuttgart 1997. Collected Essays, «Bice Curiger, Kunst expansiv -zwischen Gegenkultur und Museum», Lindinger+Schmid Verlag, Regensburg, 2002.
