Catherine de Zegher

Catherine de Zegher (born in Groningen, NL) is a prominent international curator and contemporary art critic and art historian. Currently, she is the Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Gent (Belgium). She was the curator of the Australian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and the curator of the 5th Moscow Biennale. De Zegher was the artistic co-director of the 18 Biennale of Sydney, Australia in 2012.

Catherine de Zegher's most recent book is an anthology of collected essays on contemporary women artists written over 13 years: Women's Work. Is Never Done. In 2012, de Zegher edited All our relations (18th Biennale of Sydney). Catherine de Zegher wrote On Line. Drawing Through the Twentieth Century (1910-2010) as a curator of an exhibition by that name at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2010 she has curated the exhibition Alma Matrix: Bracha Ettinger and Ria Verhaeghe in juxtaposition with Eva Hesse. Studioworks (2010) at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona. De Zegher was the Director of Exhibitions and Publications at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto in 2007-09 and the Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Drawing Center in New York in 1999-2006 and Editor of its Drawing Papers. She was previously co-founder and Director of the Kanaal Art Foundation (Kortrijk, Belgium, 1988-1998).

De Zegher came to prominence after she had curated Inside the Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of Twentieth-Century Art in, of, and from the Feminine at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston in 1996. The exhibition was accompanied by an important book (MIT Press). Her exhibitions accompanied by books and catalogues include: Mona Hatoum: Beyond the Violence Vortex into the Beauty Vortex (2011); Bracha L. Ettinger: Art as Compassion (2011), co-edited with Griselda Pollock; Cristina Iglesias: Deep Fountain (2008); Julie Mehretu: Drawings (2007); Freeing the Line (2007); Eva Hesse Drawing (2006); Joelle Tuerlinck: Drawing Inventory (2006); 3 x Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing by Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, and Agnes Martin (2005);Richard Tuttle: It’s a Room for 3 People (2005); Giuseppe Penone: The Imprint of Drawing (2004); The Stage of Drawing: Gesture and Act. Selected from the Tate Collection (2003); Anna Maria Maiolino: A Life Line/Vida Afora (2002); Untitled Passages by Henri Michaux (2000); The Prinzhorn Collection: Traces upon the Wunderblock (2000), and Martha Rosler: Positions in the Life, 1998. She co-edited with Carol Armstrong Women Artists at the Millennium (MIT Press).

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