Ruth Noack
Ruth Noack, born in Heidelberg (DE) in 1964, trained as a visual artist and art historian; she has worked as author, art critic, university lecturer and exhibition-maker since the 1990s. Noack was curator of documenta 12 (2007). Head of the Curating Contemporary Art Programme, Royal College of Art, London (2012–13), she acted as Research Leader for the EU project MeLa – European Museums in an age of migrations. Noack was Šaloun professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (2013–14) and directed the Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course in 2014. Since 2015 she has been responsible for one of the DAI Roaming Academy trajectories.
Courses
2018 Thinking with Works of Art (30.07.2018–08.08.2018)
2017 Thinking with Works of Art (17.07.2017–29.07.2017)
Exhibitions
2018 Sleeping with a Vengeance − Dreaming of a Life. DAI, Athens. 2015 Notes on Crisis, Currency and Consumption, curated by_Vienna 2015, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna. 2012 Not Dressed for Conquering – Ines Doujak’s Loomshuttles/Warpaths, Royal College of Art, London. 2007 documenta 12, Kassel (DE). 2003–05 The Government (curated with Roger M. Buergel), Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg, MACBA-Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (ES), Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL), MAC, Miami (US), Secession, Vienna. 2000 Things We Don’t Understand (curated with Roger M.Buergel), Generali Foundation, Vienna. 1995 Scenes of a Theory (curated with Roger M.Buergel), Depot, Vienna.
Publications
Ruth Noack: Sanja Ivekovic: Triangle, One Work Series, Afterall Books, London 2013
Ruth Noack (ed.): Agency, Ambivalence, Analysis. Approaching the Museum with Migration in Mind, Politecnico di Milano, Milan 2013.
