Philippe Vergne

Interview : Philippe Vergne is Director of the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves in Porto. Previously, he served as Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Dia Art Foundation in New York and the Musée d'Art Contemporain in Marseille. From 1997 to 2008 Vergne worked first as Chief Curator and then as Deputy Director-of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where he organized Cameron Jamie's first US institutional solo exhibition in 2006. He was co-curator with Chrissie Iles of the 2006 Whitney Biennial of American Art in New York. Survey : Ralph RUgoff has been the Director of London's Hayward Gallery since 2006. Rugoff was previously director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco. In 2015 he was Guest Curator of the 13th Lyon Biennale and in 2019 he was Artistic Director of the 58th Venice Biennale. Focus : Elena Filipovic is Director of Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland. She served as Director and Curator of Kunsthalle Basel (2014-24) and, prior to that, Senior Curator of WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels (2009-14). Filipovic curated the Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Art (2022) and co-curated the 5th Berlin Biennial of Contemporary Art (2008) with Adam Szymczyk. She writes widely about art, has edited several compendiums on exhibition histories, and is the author of David Hammons Blizaard Ball Sale (2017) and The Apparently Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp (2016).