Catherine David

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Catherine David - painting 1998

Catherine David (born September 19, 1954 in Paris ) is a French art historian , art educator and exhibition curator.

Life

David studied Spanish and Portuguese literature , linguistics and art history in Paris. From 1981 to 1990 she was curator at the State Museum of Modern Art, Center Georges Pompidou , Paris, from 1990 curator of the National Gallery of Jeu de Paume in Paris as well as several international exhibitions. David is chief curator of the Musées de France. From 1994 to 1997 Catherine David was artistic director of Documenta X in Kassel . This made her the first woman to curate a documenta . From 2002 to 2004 she was director of the Witte de With , a center for contemporary art in Rotterdam ( Netherlands ). In 2009 she organized the retrospective in honor of the Iranian photographer Bahman Jalali at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona .

Since 1998 David has directed the project “ Représentations Arabes Contemporains ” with Arabic art.

In 2006 she showed the exhibition The Iraqi Equation ( The Iraqi Equation ) in Berlin and Barcelona . From December 2007 she curated DI / VISIONS for a good four weeks . Culture and politics in the Middle East at the House of World Cultures in Berlin to help break up Western clichés. In 2009 David was Artistic Director of the first national presentation of the United Arab Emirates at the Venice Biennale , organized by Dubai .

Publications

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Kimmelman: 'Suddenly I Have Hundreds Of Friends'. In: The New York Times . August 14, 1994, accessed October 27, 2016 .
  2. ↑ DI / VISIONS. Culture and Politics in the Middle East. In: House of World Cultures . Retrieved October 27, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME David, Catherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French art historian, art educator and exhibition curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris