Curator talk : Ruba Katrib : MoMA PS1

Friday the 10 April AHC invited inside for a morning session in the company of Ruba Katrib, Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at MoMA PS1, New York.

Presented and moderated by Lars Bang Larsen (AHC), Katrib discussed a few of the recent shows and especially touched upon her work on artists, mostly women, who break from conventions and focus on forms of creative independence.

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ABOUT RUBA KATRIB
Ruba Katrib is the Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at MoMA PS1, New York where she oversees the museum’s program and is a member of the leadership team. At PS1 she has organized exhibitions such as Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE (2023), Daniel Lind Ramos (2023), Jumana Manna: Break, Take, Erase, Tally (2022), Frieda Toranzo Jaeger: Autonomous Drive (2022), Greater New York (2021), Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life (2021), Simone Fattal’s retrospective in 2019, as well as solo shows by Edgar Heap of Birds (2019), Karrabing Collective (2019), Fernando Palma Rodríguez, and Julia Phillips (2018). From 2012–2018 she was the Curator at SculptureCenter in New York, where she organized over twenty exhibitions including 74 million million million tons (2018, co-organized with artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan) and solo shows with Carissa Rodriguez, Kelly Akashi, Sam Anderson, Teresa Burga, Nicola L., Charlotte Prodger, Rochelle Goldberg, Aki Sasamoto, Cosima von Bonin, Anthea Hamilton, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Magali Reus, Gabriel Sierra, Erika Verzutti, and David Douard. In 2018, Katrib co-curated SITE Santa Fe’s biennial, Casa Tomada, along with José Luis Blondet and Candice Hopkins. She regularly writes for periodicals and museum catalogues.