Curator Ralph Rugoff OBE has been the Director of London’s Hayward Gallery since 2006, and last year, curated the 58th Venice Biennale, entitled May You Live in Interesting Times. Since his appointment at the Hayward, Rugoff has overseen the institution’s rise to one of the city’s most important public art spaces. With his vision, the…
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson consistently seeks to make his art relevant to society at large, engaging the public in striking ways both inside and outside the museum. For Eliasson, the potential of art is determined by the viewer’s own participation in and experience of the work. Covering a diverse range of media, from painting, sculpture,…
Artistic Director of London’s Serpentine Galleries, Zurich-born curator, critic and art historian, Hans-Ulrich Obrist has established a reputation for being one of the most prolific and influential curators in the world. Since his first show “World Soup” (The Kitchen Show) in 1991 he has curated more than 300 diverse exhibitions. Among the titles he’s authored,…
Australian-born and raised in Rome, Judith Clark is a curator and exhibition-maker based in London. She moved to the city to study Architecture at the Bartlett, and later, the Architectural Association. She is currently Professor of Fashion and Museology at the London College of Fashion, where she runs the Fashion Curation masters programme. Since setting…
For over 15 years, the Yvon Lambert bookshop in Paris has supplied curious minds with an extensive and eclectic choice of art books, exhibition catalogues, rare and out of print volumes, collectible multiples and ephemera. Since opening his original Parisian gallery in the late 1960s, Lambert has played an important role in representing and supporting…
Massimiliano Gioni, the New York-based Italian curator and contemporary art critic, serves as the Artistic Director of NYC’s New Museum, as well as the Artistic Director of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation in Milan. Hailing from Busto Arsizio, Italy, Gioni is a leading figure in the contemporary art world, having curated a multitude of celebrated exhibitions,…
magCulture Founder and Creative Director Jeremy Leslie is a steadfast believer in magazines being a uniquely relevant and dynamic media form, despite various challenges faced by the industry today. His business operates simultaneously as a studio, offering strategic and creative services, a journal, focussing on the future of editorial design, and a shop with a…
New York-based David Platzker is the Director of Specific Object, an innovative gallery, bookstore and think-tank dedicated to art post 1959, archiving and selling diverse materials from artists’ publications, multiples, and unique works of art, to literature, music, and counterculture ephemera. Until 2018, for close to five years, Platzker was Curator in the Department of…
Located on the historic row of Victorian shop-fronts, Cecil Court, Tenderbooks provides a unique space for independent artist publications, contemporary poetry, niche magazines, and rare photography books, among other volumes. The site also hosts exhibitions and commissions limited editions, supporting artist projects and experimental publishing. While the shop, like all others, has been shuttered during…