06-2004
Manifesta 5 curators

Massimiliano Gioni is a curator and art critic who currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Trussardi Foundation in Milan. He is also part of the curatorial team for Monument to Now: New Acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection (Athens, 2004). For the 50th edition of the Venice Biennial in 2003, he curated The Zone, a new pavillion for young Italian contemporary art. His other recently curated exhibitions include: Short Cut - Elmgreen and Dragset (Milan, 2003); If I Had You - Darren Almond (Milan, 2003); Yesterday Begins Tomorrow (Athens, 2003); and Maurizio Cattelan (Milan, 2004). The former US editor for Flash Art magazine, Massimiliano Gioni has written extensively on contemporary art, publishing articles in Parkett, Flash Art, and Carnet, along with contributions to various publications and catalogues.
In collaboration with Ali Subotnick and Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni runs The Wrong Gallery, a New York-based non-profit space that has presented works and special projects by Tomma Abts, Pawel Althamer, Phil
Collins, Martin Creed, Sam Durant, Cameron Jamie, Paul McCarthy, Keegan
McHargue, Elizabeth Peyton, Paola Pivi, Jason Rhoades, Tino Sehgal, and
Lawrence Weiner, among others. With Cattelan and Subotnick, Gioni also edits the visual magazine Charley and holds a regular column in Domus magazine.

Marta Kuzma is an independent curator who presently resides in San Sebastián, Spain for the duration of Manifesta 5 (2003-2004). Kuzma served as the Artistic Director of Washington Project for the Arts, in Washington, DC (2000-2002) where she restructured the programme by initiating The Mutable Monument, an international project approaching revisions in the notion of monument. From 1991 - 1999, she served as Artistic Director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Kyiv, Ukraine where she curated numerous exhibitions including Boris Mikhailov: A Retrospective (1996); Alchemic Surrender aboard the nuclear battleship Slavutych in Sevastopol (1994); and The Crimean Project in Livadia Palace (1998). Prior to Kyiv, she headed the International Exhibitions Programme at the International Center of Photography, NYC. Kuzma studied at Barnard College/Columbia University, NYC, and completed her postgraduate degree in Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Centre for Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, London. She served on the jury of the DAAD artist residency panel for 2003 and 2004 and is a visiting lecturer in the postgraduate programme at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. At present, she is curating a project with Dan Graham entitled Passaic to open in NYC in 2004.