Corina Apostol

Dr. Corina L. Apostol is an art curator, educator and writer from Constanța, Romania. She currently serves as an assistant professor of social practice in contemporary art and culture at the University of Amsterdam. Between 2019 and 2023 she was a curator at the Tallinn Art Hall.[1] In 2022 she was appointed the curator of the Estonian pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale held in the Dutch pavilion.[2][3] Her work has been recognised with nominations for the 2015 Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco Prize, the 2016 Kandinsky Prize, the 2020 Sergey Kuryokhin Award and the 2022 Igor Zabel Award.[4]

Education

Corina Apostol received a Bachelor of Art major in Art History, History and minor in Visual Studies at the Duke University.[5] She obtained a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in Art History at Rutgers University.[6]

Career

Apostol served as a curator at the Tallinn Art Hall (2019-2023) and guest lecturer at the Art Academy of Latvia (2021-2023). Since 2010, she is the cofounder of the activist publishing collective ArtLeaks and editor-in-chief of the ArtLeaks Gazette.[7] 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.[8] In 2013 she opened the exhibition "Leningra'd Perestroika: Crosscurents in Photography, Video and Music" highlighting the unique photographic, video, and musical innovations that shaped the Leningrad (now known as St. Petersburg) unofficial art culture during the period of glasnost and perestroika.[9]

In 2010, she co-founded ArtLeaks, together with an international group of artists, writers, curators and activists, a platform that draws attention to cases involving politically active cultural workers and associated campaigns. Artleaks seeks to create a strong network of art whistleblowers to support and protect arts workers. Based on her experiences with ArtLeaks, she contributed to the book Truth Is Concrete Handbook,and for an activism that Truth is Concrete: A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics and to the exhibition "Publishing Against the Grain," (2017-2023)][10] organized by ICI.[11]

In 2016, she was selected as part of the Board of Directors of the Romanian National Cultural Fund.[12] She wrote the chapter "The Art of Making Community" in Area Studies in the Global Age: Community, Place, Identity (Cornell University Press, 2016), about Romanian artist Lia Perjovschi.[13] Between 2017 and 2019 she was the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Creative Time. In 2019, Apostol 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.[14] In 2018, she co-curated together with Elvira Dyangani-Ose the Creative Time Summit: "On Archipelagoes and Other Imaginaries" at the Arsht Center for Performing Arts and other locations across Miami, FL.

In 2020, she was selected as the curator for the Estonian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale.[15] The project, entitled "Orchidelirium: An Appetite for Abundance" was presented in the Dutch Rietveld Pavilion in the Giardini della Biennale, and showcased artworks by contemporary artists Kristina Norman, Eko Supriyanto, the botanical artist Emilie Rosalie Saal (1871-1954).[16][17]

In 2022, Apostol curated the project "Polar Rainbow", a socially engaged project using Augmented Reality, first presented by Time Square Arts during Pride Month.[18] Under her curatorship, the project was also presented by Fundacja Bęc Zmiana and Asociația Accept in the same year.

Between 2019 and 2023 she was a curator and member of the steering committee of Beyond Matter an international, collaborative, practice-based research project that takes cultural heritage and culture in development to the verge of virtual reality, spearheaded by the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. In this framework, she co-edited together with Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás the book Immerse! (2023), published by Hatje Canz.

In fall 2023 Apostol was appointed assistant professor of social practice in contemporary art and culture at the University of Amsterdam. Apostol's next book project, Flora Fantastic: From Orchidelirium to Eco-critical Contemporary Art, is due out with Routledge in fall 2024.

She is the associate producer of Zach Blas' CULTUS which addresses a burgeoning AI religiosity in the tech industry and considers the ways in which artificial intelligence is imbued with god-like powers and marshalled to serve beliefs of judgement and transcendence, extraction and immortality, pleasure and punishment, individual freedom and cult devotion. The project was first presented at zach-blas arebyte gallery (October 2023 - February 2024) [19] and at the Vienna Secession (March - June 2024).[20]

Recognition

In 2016, Apostol was longlisted for the Kandinsky Prize in the category “Scholarly work. Contemporary art history and theory.”,[21] and in 2020 she was on the longlist of the Sergey Kuryokhin Award for "Best Curatorial Project".[22] In 2022 she was nominated for the Igor Zabel Award. In 2023, she won the apexart curatorial open call in NYC together with Dr. Tashima Thomas, with the exhibition "Flora Fantastic: Eco-critical Contemporary Botanical Art."

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. ^ "Igor Zabel Award 2022". Igor Zabel Award 2022. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
  5. ^ "Duke News and Communication". Duke University. Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
  6. ^ "Creative Time". Creative Time. Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  7. ^ "Art Leaks". Art Leaks. 9 July 2011. Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  8. ^ "Former West Corina Apostol". Former West. Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
  9. ^ Schwendener, Martha (2013-06-01). "A City's Artistic Rebellion". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
  10. ^ "Patriarchy Over & Out: Discourse Made Manifest: Corina Apostol and Jasmina Tumbas - Independent Curators International". curatorsintl.org. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ "The new composition of the Board of Directors of the National Cultural Fund". Agentia de Arte (in Romanian). 29 January 2016. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ "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.
  16. ^ "Orchidelirium: An Appetite for Abundance". Arterritory. Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  17. ^ "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.
  18. ^ Lambert, Audra (2022-06-01). ""Polar Rainbow" Public Art Augmented Reality Project Stretches Over Times Square for Pride Month". Untapped New York. Retrieved 2023-09-03.
  19. ^ Jochim, Beth (2023-10-11). "CULTUS". TechArt Talks. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  20. ^ "Katrin Hornek: testing grounds / Imran Perretta: tears of the fatherland / Zach Blas: CULTUS - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2024-05-06.
  21. ^ "Kandinsky Prize 2016". Kandinsky Prize. Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  22. ^ "XIth Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award". Kuryokhin. Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2021-03-19.

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