ELENA FILIPOVIC

Speaker, 2025
Photo Credit: Xandra M. Linsin

Elena Filipovic (born in 1972) joins the Kunstmuseum after more than nine years as director and curator of Kunsthalle Basel, where she has organised over seventy exhibitions, and following her tenure as senior curator of WIELS, Brussels from 2008 to 2014. She was curator of the Croatian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale of Art in 2022 and was co-curator, with Adam Szymczyk, of When things cast no shadow, the 5th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2008. She has a Ph.D in Art History from Princeton University and has placed writing and research at the center of her approach to art. Her writings have appeared in numerous artists’ catalogues and journals and she has edited several compendiums, including The Artist as Curator: An Anthology (Mousse Publications, 2017) and The Biennial Reader: Anthology on Large-Scale Perennial Exhibitions of Contemporary Art, with Marieke van Hal and Solveig Øvstebø (Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010). She is author of David Hammons, Bliz-aard Ball Sale (Afterall Books, 2017), for which she was awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant, and The Apparently Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2016), winner of Honorable Mention, 2017 PROSE Awards in Art History and Criticism.

Discover Elena's work here.