Paola Antonelli
Paola Antonelli (born May 13, 1963 in Sassari , Sardinia ) is an Italian architect and museum curator .
Life
Antonelli graduated from the Milan Polytechnic in 1990 with the title Laurea . So far she has not worked as an architect, but has subsequently curated various exhibitions on the subject of design in Italy, France and Japan. During her studies, she worked for the Italian magazine Domus . She was also the design editor of Abitare magazine .
Antonelli was a lecturer in Theory and History of Design at the University of California, Los Angeles until 1994, before becoming a curator at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City in February 1994 . Since 2007 she has been chief curator for architecture and design at MoMA.
Antonelli is also responsible for MoMA's design purchases and has initiated acquisitions for the museum by designers such as Richard Sapper , Dieter Rams , Ingo Maurer , Philippe Starck , Kenji Ekuan and posters by graphic artist Stefan Sagmeister .
Antonelli writes articles on design for various magazines such as Harper's Bazaar , Metropolis , Metropolitan Home , The Harvard Design Review etc. She is married and lives in New York.
Curated exhibitions (selection)
- 1996: Thresholds: Contemporary Design from the Netherlands
- 1997/98: Achille Castiglioni : Design!
- 1999: Projects 66: Fratelli Campagna Design Brazil / Ingo Maurer
- 2001: Workspheres
- 2004: Humble Masterpieces
- 2005: Safe: Design Takes on Risk
- 2008: Design and the Elastic Mind , Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Manhattan, New York City, USA. Catalog.
Teaching
From 2002 to 2007 Antonelli taught the theory and history of design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Since 2009 she has been teaching at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Awards
Publications
- as editor
- 2005: Safe: Design Takes on Risk. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, ISBN 0-87070-580-6 .
- 2008: Design and the Elastic Mind . The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, ISBN 978-0-87070-732-2 .
- in cooperation
- 2004: with Kirk Varnedoe and Joshua Siegel: Modern Contemporary Art since 1980 at MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, ISBN 0-87070-491-5 .
- 2008: Editor Andrew Garn, with Udo Kultermann: World exhibitions 1933-2005: architecture, design, graphics. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich, ISBN 978-3-421-03696-4 .
- 2010: Hella Jongerius - Misfit , Phaidon Press, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-7148-5987-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ Heaven and back in: FAZ of May 28, 2011, page C3
- ↑ Paola Antonelli is the winner of the Lucky Strike Designer Award 2010
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Antonelli, Paola |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian museum curator |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sassari , Sardinia , Italy |