Elena Filipovic

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Elena Filipovic (* 1972 in Los Angeles ) is a curator and holds a PhD in art history . After working as a curator at the Wiels - Center for Contemporary Art from 2009 to 2014 , she has been the first female director of the Kunsthalle Basel since 2014 .

Life

Filipovic holds a bachelor's degree in English from Cornell University and a PhD in art history from Princeton University in 2013 with a PhD on Marcel Duchamp . After a curatorial assistant to Hans-Ulrich Obrist at the Musée D'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris , she was co-curator of the “Utopia Station” section at the Venice Biennale in 2003 . In 2008 she curated the 5th Berlin Biennale “When Things Cast No Shadow” together with the curator Adam Szymczyk . From 2009 to 2014 she was chief curator at the Wiels - Center for Contemporary Art in Brussels . In 2014 Elena Filipovic was appointed as the first director of the Kunsthalle Basel . Overall, she curated numerous group and solo exhibitions (including on Marcel Duchamp, Félix Gonzalez-Torres , Alina Szapocznikow , Franz Erhard Walther , Klara Lidén , Anicka Yi , Mark Leckey , Vincent Meessen , Anne Imhof , Lynette Yiadom-Boakye , Michael E. Smith , Yuri Ancarani , Sadie Benning , Maria Loboda , Shahryar Nashat and Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel ).

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • The Artist as a Curator, ed. by Elena Filipovic, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3960981787
  • Elena Filipovic, David Hammons. Bliz-aard Ball Sale, London 2017, ISBN 978-1846381867
  • Elena Filipovic, The Apparently Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp, Cambridge Massachusetts 2016, ISBN 978-0262034821
  • The Biennial Reader , ed. by Elena Filipovic, Marieke Van Hal and Solveig Øvstebø, Bergen 2010, ISBN 978-3775726108

Web links

Literature by and about Elena Filipovic in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elena Filipovic. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Sarah Thornton: https://www.culturedmag.com/elena-filipovic-rags-to-riches/. In: Cultured. July 28, 2019, accessed April 2, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Elena Filipovic. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Elena Filipovic: Reflections on Three Retrospectives. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Elena Filipovic becomes director of the Kunsthalle Basel. In: Art Magazine. April 16, 2014, accessed April 2, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Elena Filipovic Named Director of Kunsthalle Basel. In: Artforum. April 15, 2014, accessed April 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Filipovic, Elena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American curator and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles