Elena Filipovic
Elena Filipovic is director and curator of Kunsthalle Basel and curator of the 2022 Croatian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale of Art. She was senior curator at WIELS in Brussels from 2009-2014 and co-curator, with Adam Szymczyk, of the 5th Berlin Biennale in 2008. She has organized more than seventy exhibitions, including shows that have travelled to the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum of Modern Art in São Paolo, and the Tate in London. Her writings have appeared widely in art journals and catalogs, and she has edited a number of anthologies on exhibition histories, including The Artist as Curator: An Anthology (Mousse Publications, 2017), and The Biennial Reader: Anthology on Large-Scale Perennial Exhibitions of Contemporary Art (Hatje Cantz, 2010), co-edited with Marieke van Hal and Solveig Øvstebø. She is author of David Hammons, Bliz-aard Ball Sale (Afterall Books, 2017) for which she received an Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant and The Apparently Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2016), winner of Honorable Mention, 2017 PROSE Awards in Art History and Criticism.