Director and Curator, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland
Beatrix Ruf studied in Vienna, New York and Zürich. Since September 2001 she is the Director/Curator of the Kunsthalle Zürich. In 2006 she was curator of the Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London. Previously, she had been Director/Curator of the Kunsthaus Glarus, and between 1994 and 1998 curator at the Kunstmuseum of the Canton of Thurgau. Since 1995 she is curator of the Ringier collection. Since 1999 Board member of the Schweizerische Graphische Gesellschaft (SGG) and member of the Art commission of Swiss Re. Since 2003 she is also Associate Editor of the publishing house JRP/Ringier. She has organized exhibitions, has written essays and published catalogues on artists such as Jenny Holzer, Marina Abramovic, Peter Land, Liam Gillick, Urs Fischer, Emmanuelle Antille, Angela Bulloch, Ugo Rondinone, Richard Prince, Keith Tyson, Elmgreen&Dragset, Monica Bonvicini, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Pierre Huyghe/Philippe Parreno: No Ghost just a Shell, Rodney Graham, Isa Genzken, Doug Aitken, Wilhelm Sasnal, de Rijke / de Rooij, Eva Rothschild, Rebecca Warren, Carol Bove, Oliver Payne&Nick Relph, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Sean Landers, John Armleder, Catherine Sullivan, Daria Martin, Trisha Donnelly, Wade Guyton, Seth Price, Kelley Walker, Josh Smith, General Idea and many others.
Chief Curator, Castello di Rivoli Museum Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is selected the curator of the Biennale of Sydney 2008. She has been Chief Curator of Castello di Rivoli Museum Contemporary Art in Turin, Italy, since 2002 and was Co-curator of the 2005 Turin Triennial. A member of the 2001 Venice Biennale jury, Christov-Bakargiev has written extensively on Italian and international art for publishers including Phaidon Press and SKIRA, and is the author of Arte Povera (1999). She was Curator of Castello di Rivoli exhibitions: The Moderns (2003), William Kentridge (2004), Pierre Huyghe (2004), Kline (2004) and Faces In the Crowd (2004-2005). Christov-Bakargiev was previously Senior Curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York - A Museum of Modern Affiliate from 1999-2001, where she co-curated Greater New York (2000) and organised group and solo exhibitions includingAround 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties (2000), Animations (2001) and Janet Cardiff (2001). In 1993 she was a co-curator of Antwerp European Capital of Culture. Christov-Bakargiev is based in Rome and Turin.
