Catherine de Zegher

Catherine de Zegher (* 1955 in Groningen ) is a Dutch art historian , curator and art critic .

life and work

Catherine de Zegher studied archeology and art history at Ghent University . From 1982 to 1987 she worked for the province West-Vlaanderen in the art patronage department in Brugge. From 1986 to 2004 Catherine de Zegher was a member of the Koninklijke Commissie voor Monumenten en Landschappen .

As co-founder and director (1988 to 1998) of the Kanaal Art Foundation in Kortrijk , Belgium, she curated the exhibition “Inside the Visible”. Catherine de Zegher was director of the Drawing Center in New York from 1999 to 2006 . From 2007 to 2009 Zegher was the artistic director of the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. De Zegher was together with Gerald McMaster director of the 18th Biennale of Sydney , Australia in 2012 and curator for the Australian pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale and the 5th Moscow Biennale in 2013 .

From November 1, 2013 to the beginning of 2019, she was director of the Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Ghent) . In March 2018, after a scandal surrounding a painting exhibition with works by the Russian avant-garde of unknown provenance, she was suspended from work and temporarily replaced by Cathérine Verleysen . In February 2019, she was dismissed with immediate effect and transferred to a leading position in the Culture and Leisure Office of the City of Ghent.

Curator / Editor / Author

• Mona Hatoum : Beyond the Violence Vortex into the Beauty Vortex (2011)
• Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker : Violin Phase (2010)
• Bracha Ettinger : Art as Compassion (2009)
• Cristina Iglesias : Deep Fountain (2008)
• Julie Mehretu : Drawings (2007)
• Freeing the Line (2007)
• Eva Hesse Drawing (2006)
• Joëlle Tuerlinckx : Drawing Inventory (2006)
• Persistent Vestiges: Drawing from the American Vietnam War (2005)
• 3 × Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing by Hilma af Klint , Emma Kunz , and Agnes Martin (2005)
• Richard Tuttle : It's a Room for 3 People (2005)
• Giuseppe Penone : The Imprint of Drawing (2004)
• The Stage of Drawing: Gesture and Act. Selected from the Tate Collection (2003)
• Anna Maria Maiolino : A Life Line / Vida Afora (2002)
• Untitled Passages by Henri Michaux (2000)
• The Prinzhorn Collection : Traces upon the Wunderblock (2000)
• Martha Rosler : Positions in the Life World (1998)

Awards

The Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art (AICA) and the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) awarded Catherine de Zegher several prizes for her work.

literature

• Women's Work is Never Done by Catherine de Zegher, MER Paper Kunsthalle Gent 2015, ISBN 978-9-49069-3-473
• Women Artists at the Millennium (October Books) Carol Armstrong (Editor), Catherine de de Zegher (Editor), The MIT Press 2011, ISBN 978-0-262515-948
• On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century by Catherine de Zegher (Editor), Cornelia Butler (Editor), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010/2011 ISBN 978-0-87070-7-827
• Inside the Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of 20th Century Art in, of, and From the Feminine by Catherine de Zegher, The MIT Press, 1996 ISBN 978-0-26254-0-810

Web links

• Invisible Culture The Inside is the Outside: The Relational as the (Feminine) Space of the Radical by Catherine de Zegher

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nieuwsblad Catherine de Zegher wordt nieuwe directeur van Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, accessed on March 26, 2015 (Dutch)
2. ↑ accessed on March 26, 2015 (English): Flanders Arts institute visual arts Catherine de Zegher appointed director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent. (No longer available online.) In: bamart.be. June 20, 2013, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on February 24, 2020 (English). 
3. ↑ Catherine de Zegher is the nieuwe directeur of the Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent. Retrieved February 24, 2020 (Flemish). 
4. ↑ Cathérine Verleysen acting director of the MSK | MSK Gent. April 9, 2018, accessed February 24, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Catherine de Zegher is not a long directeur MSK. In: avs.be. AVS Oost-Vlaamse Televisie, February 22, 2019, accessed on February 24, 2020 (Dutch). 
6. ↑ Moscow Biennale Catherine de Zegher biography ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on March 26, 2015 (English)