Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

art historian, critic, and curator

Date of Birth: 02-Dec-1957

Place of Birth: New Jersey, United States

Profession: curator, art historian, museum director

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (born December 2, 1957, in Ridgewood, New Jersey, US) is an Italian-American writer, art historian and curator.
She is the recipient of the 2019 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence .
Currently, she is the Director of Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea and Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti in Turin.
Additionally, she is Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor in Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University. Named 2012’s most powerful person in the art world by ArtReview’s Power 100 listings , Christov-Bakargiev was Artistic Director of dOCUMENTA (13) which opened in Kassel on June 9, 2012, holding workshops, seminars and exhibitions in Alexandria, Egypt; Kabul, Afghanistan; and Banff, Canada.
Her stewardship of dOCUMENTA(13), considered to be one of the most intellectual and significant exhibitions in the art world, renewed one of the exhibition’s primal intentions to enlist culture as an agent of reconstruction, healing and dialogue.