Catherine David
Art historian and exhibition curator Catherine David was deputy director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne (MNAM) – Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, as well as head of the Research and Globalization department from 2014 to 2021.
From 1982 to 1990, she was curator at the MNAM, then from 1990 to 1994 at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris. Between 1994 and 1997, she was artistic director of documenta X in Kassel (1997). From 1998 to 2003, she directed the long-term project Contemporary Arab Representations, initiated by the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona. From 2002 to 2004, she was also director of the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.
Over the past fifteen years, she has curated: the ADACH Platform for Visual Arts at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2011); the retrospective Hassan Sharif Experiments & Objects / 1979–2011 at Qasr Al Hosn in Abu Dhabi (2011); MARWAN: Early Works 1962–1972 at the Beirut Exhibition Center (2013) and then at the Serralves Foundation, Porto (2014); Unedited History. Iran 1960–2014 at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and MAXXI, Rome (2014); and Dia al-Azzawi: A Retrospective (From 1963 until Tomorrow) at Mathaf and Al Riwaq, Doha (2017).
As deputy director of the MNAM (2016–2021), Catherine David also organized several projects, including: Wifredo Lam (2015), Memories from the futures. Indian modernities (2017), Latiff Mohidin: Pago Pago (1960–1969) (2018), Yuan Jai (2020), Bagyi Aung Soe (2020), and S.H. Raza (2023).
