Press Kit (pdf file, 490 Kb) - Palazzo Grassi

Alison M. Gingeras
Curator of the exhibition “Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection”
Alison Gingeras is born in New-York in 1973. She is responsible for the management and
conservation of the François Pinault post-war and contemporary art collection and is in charge of
developing exhibitions of this collection. She has been designated by François Pinault co-curator
with Francesco Bonami of the inaugural exhibition of the contemporary art center Punta della
Dogana and the new exhibition at Palazzo Grassi in June 2009.
In April 2006, she curated Where Are We Going? Selections from the François Pinault
Collection, the exhibition that inaugurated the newly renovated spaces of Palazzo Grassi
as well as Sequence 1: Painting and Sculpture from the Pinault Collection in May 2007.
From 1999 to 2004, Alison Gingeras was curator for Contemporary Art at the Centre Pompidou,
Paris, where she curated several exhibitions, including: Dear Painter, Paint Me: Painting the
Figure after Late Picabia (2002); Daniel Buren: Le Musée Qui N’Existait Pas (2002), as well
as two public projects with Thomas Hirschhorn—Skulptur Sortier Station (2001) and Le Musée
Précaire Albinet (2004)—and two project space shows with Urs Fischer and Kristin Baker
(2004). In 2004, she was appointed Adjunct Curator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
In October 2009, she will co-organize the exhibition Sold Out: The Artist in the Age of Pop
at Tate Modern, London.
In addition to her curatorial activities, Alison Gingeras is also a writer who frequently contributes
to Artforum and is a member of the editorial board of the art magazine Tate, Etc. She has
authored several artist monographs and exhibition catalogues, including books dedicated to the
work of Jeff Koons, Martin Kippenberger, Thomas Hirschhorn and Glenn Brown. Her most recent
publications include a new monograph on the work of the photographer Guy Bourdin, published
by Phaidon and an essay dedicated to John Currin co-published by Rizzoli and Gagosian Gallery.
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