Dr. Corina L. Apostol is an art curator and writer from

Constanța Constanța (, ; ; rup, Custantsa; bg, Кюстенджа, Kyustendzha, or bg, Констанца, Konstantsa, label=none; el, Κωνστάντζα, Kōnstántza, or el, Κωνστάντια, Kōnstántia, label=none; tr, Köstence), histo ...

, Romania. Having been a curator at

Tallinn Art Hall Tallinn Art Hall () is an art gallery built in 1934 by Edgar Johan Kuusik on Freedom Square, Tallinn, Freedom Square in Tallinn, Estonia. It is known for its exhibitions of modern art, held in the gallery itself as well as the locations Tallinn ...

since 2019, she is the curator of the

Estonian pavilion Estonian pavilion houses Estonia's national representation during Venice Biennale arts festivals. Outside of the central, international exhibition, individual nations produce their own shows, known as pavilions, as their national representation. ...

at the 59th Venice Biennale held in 2022. Her work has been recognised with nominations for the 2015 Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco Prize, the 2016

Kandinsky Prize The Kandinsky Prize, named after Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky is an award sponsored by the Deutsche Bank AG and the Art Chronika Culture Foundation. It was organized in hopes of developing Russian contemporary art, and to reinforce the sta ...

, and the 2020 Sergey Kuryokhin Award.

Education

Corina Apostol received a Bachelor of Art major in Art History, History and minor in Visual Studies at the

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

. She obtained a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in Art History at Rutgers University.

Career

Apostol is a curator at the

. She is the cofounder of the activist publishing collective ArtLeaks. Between 2010 and 2017 she was the

Norton Dodge Norton Townshend Dodge (June 15, 1927 – November 5, 2011) was an American economist and educator who amassed one of the largest collections of Soviet-era art outside the Soviet Union. Education and teaching A native Oklahoman named for his ...

Curatorial Fellow at the

Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum (known popularly as the Zimmerli Art Museum) is located on the Voorhees Mall of the campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The museum houses more than 60,000 works, including Russian and ...

, researching and exhibiting The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of

Soviet Nonconformist Art The term Soviet Nonconformist Art refers to Soviet art produced in the former Soviet Union from 1953 to 1986 (after the death of Joseph Stalin until the advent of Perestroika and Glasnost) outside of the rubric of Socialist Realism. Other terms u ...

. She contributed to the 2014 book ''Truth is Concrete: A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics'', edited by Anne Faucheret and Florian Malzacher. In 2016, she was selected as part of the Board of Directors of the Romanian National Cultural Fund. She wrote the chapter "The Art of Making Community" in ''Area Studies in the Global Age: Community, Place, Identity'' (Eds. Edith Clowes, Shelly Jarrett Bromberg, 2016), about Romanian artist Lia Perjovschi. Between 2017 and 2019 she was the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at

Creative Time Creative Time is a New York-based nonprofit arts organization. It was founded in 1974 to support the creation of innovative, site-specific, socially engaged artworks in the public realm, particularly in vacant spaces of historical and architectura ...

. That same year co-edited together with Nato Thompson the book ''Making Another World Possible: 10 Creative Time Summits, 10 Global Issues, 100 Art Projects'', published by Routledge. In 2020, she was selected as the curator for the Estonian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. The project, entitled "Orchidelirium: An Appetite for Abundance", will present artworks by contemporary artists Kristina Norman, Bita Razavi and the botanical artists Emilie Rosalie Saal.

Recognition

In 2016, Apostol was longlisted for the Kandinsky Prize in the category “Scholarly work. Contemporary art history and theory.”, and in 2020 she was on the longlist of the Sergey Kuryokhin Award for "Best Curatorial Project".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Apostol, Corina Living people Duke University alumni Rutgers University alumni People from Constanța 21st-century Romanian women Romanian art curators Year of birth missing (living people) Romanian women curators