Corina Apostol

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Dr. Corina L. Apostol is an art curator and writer from Constanța, Romania. Having been a curator at Tallinn Art Hall since 2019,[1] she is the curator of the Estonian pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale held in 2022.[2][3] Her work has been recognised with nominations for the 2015 Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco Prize, the 2016 Kandinsky Prize, and the 2020 Sergey Kuryokhin Award.

Education[]

Corina Apostol received a Bachelor of Art major in Art History, History and minor in Visual Studies at the Duke University.[4] She obtained a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in Art History at Rutgers University.[5]

Career[]

Apostol is a curator at the Tallinn Art Hall. She is the cofounder of the activist publishing collective ArtLeaks.[6] Between 2010 and 2017 she was the Norton Dodge Curatorial Fellow at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, researching and exhibiting The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art.[7] She contributed to the 2014 book Truth is Concrete: A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics, edited by Anne Faucheret and Florian Malzacher.[8]

In 2016, she was selected as part of the Board of Directors of the Romanian National Cultural Fund.[9] She wrote the chapter "The Art of Making Community" in Area Studies in the Global Age: Community, Place, Identity (Eds. Edith Clowes, Shelly Jarrett Bromberg, 2016), about Romanian artist Lia Perjovschi.[10] Between 2017 and 2019 she was the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Creative Time. That same year co-edited together with Nato Thompson the book Making Another World Possible: 10 Creative Time Summits, 10 Global Issues, 100 Art Projects, published by Routledge.[11]

In 2020, she was selected as the curator for the Estonian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale.[12] The project, entitled "Orchidelirium: An Appetite for Abundance", will present artworks by contemporary artists Kristina Norman, Bita Razavi and the botanical artists Emilie Rosalie Saal.[13][14]

Recognition[]

In 2016, Apostol was longlisted for the Kandinsky Prize in the category “Scholarly work. Contemporary art history and theory.”,[15] and in 2020 she was on the longlist of the Sergey Kuryokhin Award for "Best Curatorial Project".[16]

References[]

  1. ^ "Tallinn Art Hall announces new curator". Rutgers. Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  2. ^ "Norman, Razavi and Saal to represent Estonia at 59th Venice Biennale". ERR. August 7, 2020. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Estonia represented by Kristina Norman, Bita Razavi and Emily Rosaly Saal at the 59th Venice Biennale". Estonian Artists' Association. August 7, 2020. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Duke News and Communication". Duke University. Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
  5. ^ "Creative Time". Creative Time. Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  6. ^ "Art Leaks". Art Leaks. 9 July 2011. Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  7. ^ "Former West Corina Apostol". Former West. Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
  8. ^ Faucheret, Anne; Malzacher, Florian, eds. (2014). Truth is Concrete: A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics. Sternberg Press. ISBN 9783943365849. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  9. ^ "The new composition of the Board of Directors of the National Cultural Fund". Agentia de Arte (in Romanian). Retrieved 2021-04-07.
  10. ^ Apostal, Corina (2016). "The Art of Making Community". In Clowes, Edith; Jarrett Bromberg, Shelly (eds.). Area Studies in the Global Age. United States: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781609091873. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  11. ^ White, Katie (August 16, 2019). "We Asked Three of the Art World's Most Plugged-In Young Women What They Can't Wait to See (and Read) This Fall". ArtNet. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  12. ^ "Art Industry News: Far Side Cartoon Artist Gary Larson Just Published His First New Cartoons in 25 Years + Other Stories". ArtNet. July 9, 2020. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  13. ^ "Orchidelirium: An Appetite for Abundance". Arterritory. Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  14. ^ "Estonia represented by Kristina Norman, Bita Razavi and Emily Rosaly Saal at the 59th Venice Biennale". Estonian Centre for Contemporary Art. Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
  15. ^ "Kandinsky Prize 2016". Kandinsky Prize. Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  16. ^ "XIth Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award". Kuryokhin. Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
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