Friday, August 17, 2012

Q+A with Massimiliano Gioni on his approach to curating and debt to curators past


In 2002 Massimiliano Gioni founded the Wrong Gallery, a three-foot-square space in New York's Chelsea district, where as he said "nothing was for sale." This led to prominent curatorial positions including the 2008 Berlin Biennale and 2010 Gwangju Biennale. He is currently the associate director and head of exhibitions and director of New York's New Museum and director of the 2013 Venice Biennale.

Gioni's latest exhibition, Ghosts in the Machine, is currently showing at the New Museum. Art in America caught up with him to talk about his unorthodox approach to curating the show and his debt to curators past. Read more...