Kate Fowle
Also known as: Kate FOWLE
Kate Fowle is the director of MoMA PS1, New York City, New York. She was appointed in 2019 after six years as the inaugural chief curator of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, and director-at-large at Independent Curators International, New York. During her tenure at Garage, she oversaw the institution’s transition from art center to internationally recognized, public-facing museum. In 2014 she established Field Research, the first research-oriented program in Russia for artists, and in 2017 she established Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art. From 2009 to 2013, Ms. Fowle was the executive director of Independent Curators International (ICI). She also founded ICI’s signature program, the Curatorial Intensive, the first itinerant, short-term international professional training program for curators. Previously, Ms. Fowle was the inaugural international curator at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China, from 2007 to 2008, and chair of the Master’s Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, which she cofounded in 2002. Before moving to the United States, Ms. Fowle was codirector of Smith + Fowle in London. From 1994 to 1996 she was curator at the Towner Art Gallery and Museum in Eastbourne, East Sussex. Source: [New York Academy of Arts](
Most acclaimed
Proof
Featuring works by Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein and Robert Longo, 'Proof' offers insight into the singularity of vision through which artists can reflect the social, cultural and political complexities of their times. Spanning eras and continents, each of these artists witnessed the turbulent transition from one century to another, experiencing the seismic impacts of revolution, civil rights movements and war. While Goya served church and king, Eisenstein the state, and Longo emerged during the rise of the contemporary art market--the dominant benefactors of each period--they all rose to prominence through developing nuanced practices that challenged expectations.
To Be Continued
Can temporary interventions into the activities of a small town create a meaningful dialogue with the people that live and work there? To Be Continued furthers the discussion on critical art practice in public places, examining the potential for socially engaged projects. The book features contextual essays by leading critics, and projects from more than 20 international practitioners developing ways of working with the built environment, social history and day-to-day culture of Walsall, a post-industrial town in the West Midlands, UK. Together the works define a public space without physical boundaries, extending traditional notions of monument, spectacle and civic pride. The commissions include major architectural collaborations by Richard Wentworth and Catherine Yass, a web-based project by Anne Parouty, interventions into local businesses by Jeremy Deller, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen and Sean Dower, performances by Julie Laffin and Bobby Baker, and installations by Fiona Banner and muf.