Francesco Manacorda appointed director of Castello di Rivoli in Turin

The Italian curator Francesco Manacorda has been appointed director of the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Turin, one among Italy’s most influential up to date artwork establishments. He takes up the position subsequent January, changing the high-profile artwork historian, author and curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, who has been in publish since 2016.

Between 2017 and 2022, Manacorda was the inventive director of V-A-C Basis, an organisation based by the Russian oligarch Leonid Mikhelson, who launched the artwork house GES-2 Home of Tradition in a former Moscow energy plant in late 2021. Manacorda resigned in March final yr, citing the battle in Ukraine as the explanation.

Manacorda was additionally the inventive director of Tate Liverpool (2012-17), director of the Artissima honest in Turin (2010-12) and the curator on the Barbican Artwork Gallery in London (2007-09). Nicholas Serota, former director of Tate and presently chair of Arts Council England, was on the director choice panel together with the Turin-based collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.

Manacorda has a level in humanities from the College of Turin and a masters in Curating Up to date Artwork from the Royal Faculty of Artwork, London. In 2016, he wrote a tutorial textual content for the Stedelijk Research journal, analysing, he mentioned, “exhibitions as texts which might be ‘written’—or perhaps higher mentioned, encoded—by curators to be learn, or decoded, by their public”.

Christov-Bakargiev, who retires on the finish of the yr, has curated a variety of exhibitions for the museum, together with exhibits dedicated to Anne Imhof and William Kentridge in 2020, an exhibition about Beeple in 2022, and exhibits that includes the work of Hito Steyerl and Giorgio di Chirico in 2018. She is finest identified for serving as inventive director of the extremely acclaimed thirteenth version of Documenta, the five-yearly up to date artwork present in Kassel, Germany, in 2012.

In 2015, Christov-Bakargiev was appointed “superdirector” of two of Turin’s up to date artwork establishments, the GAM (Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea) and the Castello di Rivoli. In the direction of the top of her tenure, she was solely accountable for the Castello di Rivoli.

In July 2017, the Castello di Rivoli signed an settlement with the Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti per l’Arte to safeguard, analysis, improve, and show the gathering of the eponymous Italian tycoon.