Faculty
Catherine David
(Paris, 1954).
Studied Linguistics and History of Art at the Université de la Sorbonne and Ecole du Louvre in Paris.
From 1982 to 1990 she was Curator at the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou and from 1990 to 1994 at Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, both in Paris, where she organized several monographs and group exhibitions including: Lothar Baumgarten;Reinhard Mucha;Gilberto Zorio; Passages de L’Image; Stan Douglas:Monodramas and Television Spots;Suzanne Lafont; Marcel Broodthaers; Helio Oiticica; Robert Gober; Jeff Wall and Chantal Ackerman: D’Est, among others.
From 1994 to 1997 David served as Artistic Director for documenta X in Kassel, Germany, and from 1998 on is Director of the long-term project Contemporary Arab Representations produced by Tàpies Foundation in Barcelona.
In 2000 she organized The State of Things for Kunst Werke, Berlin.
Between 2002 and 2004 David was Director of the Witte de With Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
In 2004-2005 she was Rudolf Arnim Guest professor Humboldt University, Berlin
In 2005-2006 she was fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
In 2007 she organized a monograph exhibition of Bahman Jalali at Tàpies Fondation in Barcelona and the interdisciplinary event: Di/Visions: Culture and Politics of the Middle East at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.
In 2008 she received the Bard Award for curatorial excellence in New York
In 2009 she was curator of the ADACH (Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage) pavilion at Venice Biennal.
In March 2011 She organized the Hassan Sharif’s Exhibition Experiments & Objects 1979-2011 at the ADACH Exhibition hall in Abu Dhabi and her last publication is the first monograph of the Artist Works 1973-2011 ( Hatje Cantz).