Castello di Rivoli Museum of Modern Artwork in Turin stated in a press release its present director, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, will retire aged 66 on the finish of this yr after greater than 20 years of service to the museum, which she has led since 2016. The museum is looking for a substitute to begin in January 2024.
Christov-Bakargiev has curated a variety of exhibitions for the museum, together with reveals dedicated to Anne Imhof and William Kentridge in 2020, an exhibition about Beeple in 2022, and reveals that includes the work of Hito Steyerl and Giorgio di Chirico in 2018. Along with Marianna Vecellio, she curated the museum’s present exhibition, Artists in a Time of Battle. Within the second half of 2023, the museum is displaying a significant exhibition dedicated to Michelangelo Pistoletto to mark his ninetieth birthday.
She is best-known for serving as creative director of the extremely acclaimed thirteenth version of Documenta, the five-yearly modern artwork present in Kassel, Germany, in 2012.
