Catherine Aimée David

Catherine David is a curator and art historian. She is currently Deputy Director and is in charge of the Globalisation Department at the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, since 2014.

From 1982 to 1990 she was curator at the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou and from 1990 to 1994 at the 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 Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona. She organized The State of Things for Kunst Werke, Berlin (2000).

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 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In 2005-2006 she was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

She organized a monograph exhibition of Bahman Jalali at Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona (2007) and the interdisciplinary event Di/ Visions: Culture and Politics of the Middle East at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin (2007). 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 the Venice Biennial. In March 2011 she organized Hassan Sharif’s Exhibition Experiments & Objects 1979-2011 at the ADACH Exhibition hall in Abu Dhabi and the first monograph of the artist, Works 1973-2011 (Hatje Cantz). In 2013 she presented MARWAN Early Works 1962-1972 at the Beirut Exhibition Center. In 2014 UNEDITED HISTORY:  Iran 1960-2014 at the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, in 2015 WIFREDO LAM at the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou and in 2016 DIA Al-AZZAWI: A RETROSPECTIVE (from 1963 until tomorrow) at MATHAF Doha.

^{photograph: Bob Goedewaagen}