Giovanni Carmine

Carmine worked at the Kunstraum Walcheturm in Zürich and has organised exhibitions for various institutions such as 999 (1999) and Updating Landscapes (2003) for the Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, the exhibition Body Proxy about Norma Jeane (Helmhaus Zürich, Swiss Institute New York, and Kunstverein Freiburg, 2004/5), and the painting trilogy Fois Gras (Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris, 2007). He has also initiated a number of independent projects like Unloaded (2002) in former Swiss-army bunkers and the mobile platform zimmerfrei. He has contributed to various magazines (Kunst-Bulletin, Frieze,Parkett), written for catalogues and edited publications (PSYOP Post 9/11 Leaflets with the artist Christoph Büchel, 2005). Since March 2007 he is the director of the Kunst Halle St. Gallen. He lives and works in Zürich and St. Gallen.