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'''Catherine David''' (born 1954) is a French art historian, curator and museum director. David was the first woman and the first non-German speaker to curate [[Documenta|documenta X]] in [[Kassel]], Germany (21 June – 28 September 1997).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/14/arts/suddenly-i-have-hundreds-of-friends.html | title=Kimmelman, Michael, 'Suddenly I have Hundreds of Friends,' New York Times, August 14, 1994|publisher=nytimes.com | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref> David is currently deputy director of the National Museum of Modern Art ([[Musée National d'Art Moderne]]) at the [[Centre Georges Pompidou]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2014/01/23/pompidou-nabs-catherine-david-as-deputy-director-of-the-musee-national-d%E2%80%99art-moderne/ |title='Pompidou Nabs Catherine David as Deputy Director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne,' artinfo, January 23, 2014 |publisher=artinfo.com |accessdate=2014-09-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904095416/http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2014/01/23/pompidou-nabs-catherine-david-as-deputy-director-of-the-musee-national-d%E2%80%99art-moderne/ |archive-date=September 4, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She was born and lives in Paris.

==Early life and education==
David studied Spanish and Portuguese literature, [[linguistics]] and art history at the [[Sorbonne University|Université de la Sorbonne]] and the [[École du Louvre]] in Paris.{{cn|date=October 2023}}

==Career==
===National Museum of Modern Art, 1981–1990===
From 1981 to 1990 David was a curator at the National Museum of Modern Art (Musée National d'Art Moderne), Centre Pompidou, Paris.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://universes-in-universe.de/doc/e_david.htm | title=Catherine David-biographical data, Universe-in-Universe | publisher= universes-in-universe.de | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref>

===Jeu de Paume, 1990–1994===
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From 1990 to 1994 she moved to the National Gallery of the Jeu de Paume ([[Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume]]), also in Paris, where she organized several solo and group exhibitions including: "Reinhard Mucha, Passages de l'image"; "[[Stan Douglas]]: Monodramas and Television Spots"; "[[Marcel Broodthaers]]"; "[[Hélio Oiticica]]"; "[[Eva Hesse]]"; "[[Jeff Wall]] and [[Chantal Ackerman]]: D'Est", among others.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/02/arts/a-paris-museum-reopens-in-a-new-guise.html | title= Kimmelman, Michael, 'A Paris Museum Reopens in a New Guise' New York Times, July 2, 1991 | publisher=nytimes.com | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref> In the 1990s, she took part to a worldwide movement with [[Okwui Enwezor]], judging art according to natural disasters, migration policies and gender war.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hengevoss-Dürkop|first1=Kerstin|date=2004|title=About Flesh|journal=Beaux-Arts Magazine|issue=special "Philippe Pasqua"}}</ref>

===Documenta X, 1994–1997===
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In 1994 David was appointed artistic director of [[documenta X]] in [[Kassel]], staged in the summer of 1997.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/17/arts/2-top-art-shows-select-french-directors.html | title=Smith, Roberta, '2 Top Art Shows Select French Directors,' New York Times, March 17, 1994 | publisher=nytimes.com | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref> She made headlines in the international art world with her original approach to documenta, where she brought her cross-sector discipline to the exhibition, inviting writers, sociologists and architects, as well as artists, to speak over the 100-day exhibition.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/16/travel/a-taste-of-the-zeitgeist.html | title=Cotter, Holland, 'A Taste of The Zeitgeist,' New York Times, March 16, 1997 | publisher= nytimes.com | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref> For the first time a website was conceived as a part of the exhibition, curate by the artist and Swiss curator [[Simon Lamunière]]. Documenta X still is one of the most relevant major exhibitions of the 20th Century, a place where the ideas of Center and Periphery, Modern and Pre-Modern could be examined and understood.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Statements by Catherine David, and comments. documenta 10, 1997 |url=https://universes.art/en/documenta/1997/statements-comments |access-date=2022-05-12 |website=universes.art |language=en-US}}</ref> Catherine David lead the way to show what "political art" means, and inspired the programme of a good number of museums around Europe in the early 21st Century.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Allen |first=Jennifer |date=2012-05-31 |title=documenta – Looking Back and Ahead |language=en |work=Frieze |issue=5 |url=https://www.frieze.com/article/documenta-%E2%80%93%C2%A0blick-zur%C3%BCck-nach-vorn |access-date=2022-05-12 |issn=0962-0672}}</ref>


===Later career===
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'''Catherine David''' (born 1954) is a French art historian, curator and museum director. David was the first woman and the first non-German speaker to curate [[Documenta|documenta X]] in [[Kassel]], Germany (June 21 – September 28, 1997).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/14/arts/suddenly-i-have-hundreds-of-friends.html | title=Kimmelman, Michael, 'Suddenly I have Hundreds of Friends,' New York Times, August 14, 1994|publisher=nytimes.com | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref> David is currently deputy director of the National Museum of Modern Art ([[Musée National d'Art Moderne]]) at the [[Centre Georges Pompidou]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2014/01/23/pompidou-nabs-catherine-david-as-deputy-director-of-the-musee-national-d%E2%80%99art-moderne/ | title='Pompidou Nabs Catherine David as Deputy Director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne,' artinfo, January 23, 2014 | publisher= artinfo.com | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref> She was born and lives in [[Paris]].
In 1999 David went on to curate the film and video program of the XXIV Biennial of São Paulo. The following year she organized "The State of Things" for the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.


In 2002 she took over as Director of the [[Witte de With]] Center for Contemporary Art in [[Rotterdam]] where she remained until 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://artdaily.com/news/12068/Curator-Catherine-David-Leaves-Witte-de-With | title='Curator Catherine David leaves Witte de With,' Artdaily | publisher= artdaily.com | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref> Over several years David was chief curator of the Musées de France (French Museum Board). She was also artistic director of the 2009 Lyon Biennale.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.flashartonline.com/interno.php?pagina=news_det&id=245&det=ok&title=Catherine-David-to-curate-Lyon-2009 | title='Catherine David to curate Lyon 2009,' Flash Art | publisher=flashartonline.com | accessdate=2014-09-04 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819194926/http://www.flashartonline.com/interno.php?pagina=news_det | archivedate=August 19, 2014 | df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/catherine-david-as-curator-for-2009/ | title='Catherine David as Curator for 2009,' e-flux, October 1, 2009 | publisher= e-flux.com | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref>
==Education and work==
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David studied Spanish and Portuguese literature, [[linguistics]] and [[art history]] at the [[Sorbonne University|Université de la Sorbonne]] and the [[École du Louvre]] in Paris. From 1981 to 1990 she was a curator at the National Museum of Modern Art (Musée National d’Art Moderne), Centre Pompidou, Paris.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://universes-in-universe.de/doc/e_david.htm | title=Catherine David-biographical data, Universe-in-Universe | publisher= universes-in-universe.de | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref> From 1990 to 1994 she moved to the National Gallery of the Jeu de Paume ([[Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume]]), also in Paris, where she organized several solo and group exhibitions including: "Reinhard Mucha, Passages de l’image"; "[[Stan Douglas]]: Monodramas and Television Spots"; "[[Marcel Broodthaers]]"; "[[Hélio Oiticica]]"; "[[Eva Hesse]]"; "[[Jeff Wall]] and [[Chantal Ackerman]]: D’Est", among others.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/02/arts/a-paris-museum-reopens-in-a-new-guise.html | title= Kimmelman, Michael, 'A Paris Museum Reopens in a New Guise' New York Times, July 2, 1991 | publisher=nytimes.com | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref>


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Turning her focus to the Middle East, David became Director of the long-term project "Contemporary Arab Representations" (Représentations Arabes Contemporaines ) in 1998, an initiative presenting contemporary Middle East and Arab artists, first shown at the [[Fundació Antoni Tàpies]] in [[Barcelona]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/contemporary-arab-representations-the-iraqui-equation/ | title='Contemporary Arab Representations. The Iraqui Equation,' Fundació Antoni Tàpies, April 25, 2006 | publisher= e-flux.com | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2003/jun/17/artsfeatures | title=Searle, Adrian, 'Stop the racket,' The Guardian, June 17, 2003 | publisher= theguardian.com | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref> In 2006, she staged the exhibition "The Iraqi Equation" in Berlin and Barcelona.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kw-berlin.de/en/exhibitions/contemporary_arab_representations_the_iraqi_equation_108 |title='Contemporary Arab Representations. The Arab Equation.' KW Berlin |publisher=kw-berlin.de |accessdate=2014-09-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054258/http://www.kw-berlin.de/en/exhibitions/contemporary_arab_representations_the_iraqi_equation_108 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In December 2007, she curated "DI / VISIONS. Culture and politics in the Middle East" at the [[Haus der Kulturen der Welt]] in Berlin, which aimed to break down the Western stereotype of Arab culture. In 2009 she organized a retrospective in honor of the Iranian photographer [[Bahman Jalali]], again at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.fundaciotapies.org/site/IMG/pdf/ddp_ang-2.pdf | title= 'Bahman Jalali,' 28 September-9 December, 2007, Fundació Antoni Tàpies | publisher= fundaciotapies.org | accessdate= 2014-09-04 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050445/http://www.fundaciotapies.org/site/IMG/pdf/ddp_ang-2.pdf | archive-date= March 4, 2016 | url-status= dead }}</ref> and was artistic director of the first national presentation of the [[ADACH]] (Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage) at the [[Venice Biennale]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/jun/04/venice-biennale-united-arab-emirates | title=Higgins, Charlotte, 'United Arab Emerites confronts stereotypes in Venice Biennale debut,' The Guardian, June 4, 2009 | publisher= theguardian.com | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref> In March 2011 she organized [[Hassan Sharif]]'s exhibition "Experiments & Objects 1979-2011" at the ADACH Exhibition hall in [[Abu Dhabi]] and launched the first monographic publication of the artist in Venice Biennale 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/nafas/articles/2011/hassan_sharif_abu_dhabi | title='Hassan Sharif, Experiments & Objects 1979-2011,' April 2011 | publisher= universes-in-universe.org | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref>
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In 1994 David was appointed artistic director of documenta X in Kassel, staged in the summer of 1997.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/17/arts/2-top-art-shows-select-french-directors.html | title=Smith, Roberta, '2 Top Art Shows Select French Directors,' New York Times, March 17, 1994 | publisher=nytimes.com | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref> She made headlines in the international art world with her original approach to documenta, where she brought her cross-sector discipline to the exhibition, inviting writers, sociologists and architects, as well as artists, to speak over the 100-day exhibition.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/16/travel/a-taste-of-the-zeitgeist.html | title=Cotter, Holland, 'A Taste of The Zeitgeist,' New York Times, March 16, 1997 | publisher= nytimes.com | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref> For the first time a website was conceived as a part of the exhibition, curate by the artist and Swiss curator [[Simon Lamunière]]. In 1999 she went on to curate the film and video program of the XXIV Biennial of São Paulo. The following year she organized "The State of Things" for the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, [[Berlin]]. In 2002 she took over as Director of the [[Witte de With]] Center for Contemporary Art in [[Rotterdam]] where she remained until 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://artdaily.com/news/12068/Curator-Catherine-David-Leaves-Witte-de-With#.VAf7Hkhifww | title='Curator Catherine David leaves Witte de With,' Artdaily | publisher= artdaily.com | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref> Over several years David was chief curator of the Musées de France (French Museum Board). She was also artistic director of the 2009 Lyon Biennale.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.flashartonline.com/interno.php?pagina=news_det&id=245&det=ok&title=Catherine-David-to-curate-Lyon-2009 | title='Catherine David to curate Lyon 2009,' Flash Art | publisher=flashartonline.com | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/catherine-david-as-curator-for-2009/ | title='Catherine David as Curator for 2009,' e-flux, October 1, 2009 | publisher= e-flux.com | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref>


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In 2014 David curated "UNEDITED HISTORY, Iran 1960-2014" at the [[Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mam.paris.fr/en/expositions/exposition-unedited-history | title='Unedited History, Iran 1960-2014,' Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris| publisher= mam.paris.fr | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref> Earlier in the year it was announced that David would be returning to Centre Pompidou with her appointment as the deputy director and head of global outreach for the National Museum of Modern Art (Musée National d'Art Moderne), replacing Catherine Grenier.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2014/01/22/catherine-david-nommee-directrice-adjointe-du-musee-national-d-art-moderne_4352073_3246.html | title=Lequeux, Emmanuel, 'Catherine David nommée directrice adjointe du Musée national d'art moderne,' Le Monde, January 22, 2014 | publisher= lemonde.fr | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref>
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Turning her focus to the Middle East, David became Director of the long-term project "Contemporary Arab Representations" (Représentations Arabes Contemporaines ) in 1998, an initiative presenting contemporary Middle East and Arab artists, first shown at the [[Fundació Antoni Tàpies]] in [[Barcelona]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/contemporary-arab-representations-the-iraqui-equation/ | title='Contemporary Arab Representations. The Iraqui Equation,' Fundació Antoni Tàpies, April 25, 2006 | publisher= e-flux.com | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2003/jun/17/artsfeatures | title=Searle, Adrian, 'Stop the racket,' The Guardian, June 17, 2003 | publisher= theguardian.com | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref> In 2006, she staged the exhibition "The Iraqi Equation" in Berlin and Barcelona.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kw-berlin.de/en/exhibitions/contemporary_arab_representations_the_iraqi_equation_108 | title='Contemporary Arab Representations. The Arab Equation.' KW Berlin | publisher= kw-berlin.de | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref> In December 2007, she curated "DI / VISIONS. Culture and politics in the Middle East" at the [[Haus der Kulturen der Welt]] in Berlin, which aimed to break down the Western stereotype of Arab culture. In 2009 she organized a retrospective in honor of the Iranian photographer [[Bahman Jalali]], again at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fundaciotapies.org/site/IMG/pdf/ddp_ang-2.pdf | title= 'Bahman Jalali,' 28 September-9 December, 2007, Fundació Antoni Tàpies | publisher= fundaciotapies.org | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref> and was artistic director of the first national presentation of the [[ADACH]] (Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage) at the [[Venice Biennale]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/jun/04/venice-biennale-united-arab-emirates | title=Higgins, Charlotte, 'United Arab Emerites confronts stereotypes in Venice Biennale debut,' The Guardian, June 4, 2009 | publisher= theguardian.com | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref> In March 2011 she organized [[Hassan Sharif]]'s exhibition "Experiments & Objects 1979-2011" at the ADACH Exhibition hall in [[Abu Dhabi]] and launched the first monographic publication of the artist in Venice Biennale 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/nafas/articles/2011/hassan_sharif_abu_dhabi | title='Hassan Sharif, Experiments & Objects 1979-2011,' April 2011 | publisher= universes-in-universe.org | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref>


==Other activities==
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In 2014 David curated "UNEDITED HISTORY, Iran 1960-2014" at the [[Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mam.paris.fr/en/expositions/exposition-unedited-history | title='Unedited History, Iran 1960-2014,' Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris| publisher= mam.paris.fr | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref> Earlier in the year it was announced that David would be returning to Centre Pompidou with her appointment as the deputy director and head of global outreach for the National Museum of Modern Art (Musée National d’Art Moderne), replacing Catherine Grenier.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2014/01/22/catherine-david-nommee-directrice-adjointe-du-musee-national-d-art-moderne_4352073_3246.html | title=Lequeux, Emmanuel, 'Catherine David nommée directrice adjointe du Musée national d'art moderne,' Le Monde, January 22, 2014 | publisher= lemonde.fr | accessdate=2014-09-04}}</ref>
David was a member of the advisory committee of [[Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art|MACBA]] in Barcelona during the tenure of [[Ferran Barenblit]] as director (2015-2021).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fernández@@VictorFdez_ |first=Víctor |date=2016-10-04 |title=El Macba enseña sus cartas |url=https://www.larazon.es/local/cataluna/el-macba-ensena-sus-cartas-BB13657363/ |access-date=2022-05-12 |website=La Razón |language=es}}</ref> She is member of the advisory committee of the Saradar Collection, devoted to Lebanese art from the contemporary and modern periods,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.saradar.com/English/SaradarCollection |title=Saradar Collection - Saradar Group |author= |year=2015 |work= |publisher=Saradar |accessdate=26 December 2016 |archive-date=May 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528183521/http://www.saradar.com/English/SaradarCollection |url-status=dead }}</ref> and of [[NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore]] directed by [[Ute Meta Bauer]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-02 |title=International Advisory Board |url=https://ntu.ccasingapore.org/international-advisory-board/ |access-date=2022-05-12 |website=NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore |language=en-US}}</ref>


In 2018, David was among a group of more than 60 artists and art professionals who spoke out in an open letter against the suspension of [[Catherine de Zegher]] as director of the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent]], after news reports revealed that the museum had put on a show including what may be [[Toporovski collection controversy|fake artworks attributed to Russian avant-garde artists]].<ref>Alex Greenberger (10 October 2018), [https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/open-letter-artists-art-professionals-decry-suspension-director-ghents-museum-fine-arts-11142/ In Open Letter, Artists and Art Professionals Decry Suspension of Director of Ghent’s Museum of Fine Arts] ''[[ARTnews]]''.</ref>
Catherine David is member of the advisory committee of the Saradar Collection, devoted to Lebanese art from the contemporary and modern periods.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.saradar.com/English/SaradarCollection |title=Saradar Collection - Saradar Group |author= |year=2015 |work= |publisher=Saradar |accessdate=26 December 2016}}</ref>


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Latest revision as of 02:17, 6 April 2024

For the French writer, see Catherine David (writer).

Catherine David
Catherine David – Painting 1988
by Christian W. Staudinger
Born1954 (age 69–70)
Paris, France
Alma materUniversité de la Sorbonne, École du Louvre
Occupation(s)curator, art historian, museum director

Catherine David (born 1954) is a French art historian, curator and museum director. David was the first woman and the first non-German speaker to curate documenta X in Kassel, Germany (21 June – 28 September 1997).[1] David is currently deputy director of the National Museum of Modern Art (Musée National d'Art Moderne) at the Centre Georges Pompidou.[2] She was born and lives in Paris.

Early life and education

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David studied Spanish and Portuguese literature, linguistics and art history at the Université de la Sorbonne and the École du Louvre in Paris.[citation needed]

Career

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National Museum of Modern Art, 1981–1990

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From 1981 to 1990 David was a curator at the National Museum of Modern Art (Musée National d'Art Moderne), Centre Pompidou, Paris.[3]

Jeu de Paume, 1990–1994

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From 1990 to 1994 she moved to the National Gallery of the Jeu de Paume (Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume), also in Paris, where she organized several solo and group exhibitions including: "Reinhard Mucha, Passages de l'image"; "Stan Douglas: Monodramas and Television Spots"; "Marcel Broodthaers"; "Hélio Oiticica"; "Eva Hesse"; "Jeff Wall and Chantal Ackerman: D'Est", among others.[4] In the 1990s, she took part to a worldwide movement with Okwui Enwezor, judging art according to natural disasters, migration policies and gender war.[5]

Documenta X, 1994–1997

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In 1994 David was appointed artistic director of documenta X in Kassel, staged in the summer of 1997.[6] She made headlines in the international art world with her original approach to documenta, where she brought her cross-sector discipline to the exhibition, inviting writers, sociologists and architects, as well as artists, to speak over the 100-day exhibition.[7] For the first time a website was conceived as a part of the exhibition, curate by the artist and Swiss curator Simon Lamunière. Documenta X still is one of the most relevant major exhibitions of the 20th Century, a place where the ideas of Center and Periphery, Modern and Pre-Modern could be examined and understood.[8] Catherine David lead the way to show what "political art" means, and inspired the programme of a good number of museums around Europe in the early 21st Century.[9]

Later career

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In 1999 David went on to curate the film and video program of the XXIV Biennial of São Paulo. The following year she organized "The State of Things" for the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.

In 2002 she took over as Director of the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam where she remained until 2004.[10] Over several years David was chief curator of the Musées de France (French Museum Board). She was also artistic director of the 2009 Lyon Biennale.[11][12]

Turning her focus to the Middle East, David became Director of the long-term project "Contemporary Arab Representations" (Représentations Arabes Contemporaines ) in 1998, an initiative presenting contemporary Middle East and Arab artists, first shown at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona.[13][14] In 2006, she staged the exhibition "The Iraqi Equation" in Berlin and Barcelona.[15] In December 2007, she curated "DI / VISIONS. Culture and politics in the Middle East" at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, which aimed to break down the Western stereotype of Arab culture. In 2009 she organized a retrospective in honor of the Iranian photographer Bahman Jalali, again at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona[16] and was artistic director of the first national presentation of the ADACH (Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage) at the Venice Biennale.[17] In March 2011 she organized Hassan Sharif's exhibition "Experiments & Objects 1979-2011" at the ADACH Exhibition hall in Abu Dhabi and launched the first monographic publication of the artist in Venice Biennale 2011.[18]

In 2014 David curated "UNEDITED HISTORY, Iran 1960-2014" at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.[19] Earlier in the year it was announced that David would be returning to Centre Pompidou with her appointment as the deputy director and head of global outreach for the National Museum of Modern Art (Musée National d'Art Moderne), replacing Catherine Grenier.[20]

Other activities

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David was a member of the advisory committee of MACBA in Barcelona during the tenure of Ferran Barenblit as director (2015-2021).[21] She is member of the advisory committee of the Saradar Collection, devoted to Lebanese art from the contemporary and modern periods,[22] and of NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore directed by Ute Meta Bauer.[23]

In 2018, David was among a group of more than 60 artists and art professionals who spoke out in an open letter against the suspension of Catherine de Zegher as director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, after news reports revealed that the museum had put on a show including what may be fake artworks attributed to Russian avant-garde artists.[24]

References

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  1. ^ "Kimmelman, Michael, 'Suddenly I have Hundreds of Friends,' New York Times, August 14, 1994". nytimes.com. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  2. ^ "'Pompidou Nabs Catherine David as Deputy Director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne,' artinfo, January 23, 2014". artinfo.com. Archived from the original on September 4, 2014. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  3. ^ "Catherine David-biographical data, Universe-in-Universe". universes-in-universe.de. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  4. ^ "Kimmelman, Michael, 'A Paris Museum Reopens in a New Guise' New York Times, July 2, 1991". nytimes.com. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  5. ^ Hengevoss-Dürkop, Kerstin (2004). "About Flesh". Beaux-Arts Magazine (special "Philippe Pasqua").
  6. ^ "Smith, Roberta, '2 Top Art Shows Select French Directors,' New York Times, March 17, 1994". nytimes.com. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  7. ^ "Cotter, Holland, 'A Taste of The Zeitgeist,' New York Times, March 16, 1997". nytimes.com. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  8. ^ "Statements by Catherine David, and comments. documenta 10, 1997". universes.art. Retrieved May 12, 2022.
  9. ^ Allen, Jennifer (May 31, 2012). "documenta – Looking Back and Ahead". Frieze. No. 5. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved May 12, 2022.
  10. ^ "'Curator Catherine David leaves Witte de With,' Artdaily". artdaily.com. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  11. ^ "'Catherine David to curate Lyon 2009,' Flash Art". flashartonline.com. Archived from the original on August 19, 2014. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  12. ^ "'Catherine David as Curator for 2009,' e-flux, October 1, 2009". e-flux.com. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  13. ^ "'Contemporary Arab Representations. The Iraqui Equation,' Fundació Antoni Tàpies, April 25, 2006". e-flux.com. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  14. ^ "Searle, Adrian, 'Stop the racket,' The Guardian, June 17, 2003". theguardian.com. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  15. ^ "'Contemporary Arab Representations. The Arab Equation.' KW Berlin". kw-berlin.de. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  16. ^ "'Bahman Jalali,' 28 September-9 December, 2007, Fundació Antoni Tàpies" (PDF). fundaciotapies.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  17. ^ "Higgins, Charlotte, 'United Arab Emerites confronts stereotypes in Venice Biennale debut,' The Guardian, June 4, 2009". theguardian.com. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  18. ^ "'Hassan Sharif, Experiments & Objects 1979-2011,' April 2011". universes-in-universe.org. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  19. ^ "'Unedited History, Iran 1960-2014,' Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris". mam.paris.fr. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  20. ^ "Lequeux, Emmanuel, 'Catherine David nommée directrice adjointe du Musée national d'art moderne,' Le Monde, January 22, 2014". lemonde.fr. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  21. ^ Fernández@@VictorFdez_, Víctor (October 4, 2016). "El Macba enseña sus cartas". La Razón (in Spanish). Retrieved May 12, 2022.
  22. ^ "Saradar Collection - Saradar Group". Saradar. 2015. Archived from the original on May 28, 2019. Retrieved December 26, 2016.
  23. ^ "International Advisory Board". NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. March 2, 2021. Retrieved May 12, 2022.
  24. ^ Alex Greenberger (10 October 2018), In Open Letter, Artists and Art Professionals Decry Suspension of Director of Ghent’s Museum of Fine Arts ARTnews.
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