Francesco Manacorda to Lead Castello di Rivoli

Francesco Manacorda has been named director of Italy’s Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. Manacorda was most recentlyartistic directorof the Venice-based V-A-C Foundation, an international nonprofit devoted to the development and international presentation of Russian contemporary culture; heresignedfrom the organization in 2022 as the war in Ukraine intensified. Manacorda will step into his new role on January 1, 2024. He succeeds Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, who has served as director since 2016 and isretiringat the end of this year.RelatedHELEN FRANKENTHALER FOUNDATION SUED FOR “DESTROYING” PAINTER’S LEGACYBMA CREATES PAID INTERNSHIPS HONORING VALERIE MAYNARD Prior to arriving at the V-A-C Foundation in 2017, Manacorda served asartistic director of Tate Liverpoolfrom 2012 to 2017. Before that, he spent two years asartistic director of Italian contemporary art fair Artissima; from 2007 to 2009, he was a curator at Barbican Art Gallery in London. Manacorda from 2006 to 2011 was a visiting lecturer in the Curating Contemporary Art department at London’s Royal College of Art.

He was one often co-curatorsof the 2016 Liverpool Biennial and alongside Mali Wuco-curatedthe Eleventh Taipei Biennial, held in in 2018. Manacorda was chosen following a public selection process conducted by a judging committee chaired by Francesca Lavazza, president of Castello di Rivoli, and composed of Richard Armstrong, who was director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation from 2008 until July 2023; Andrea Ruben Levi, collector, friend benefactor of Castello di Rivoli, and member of the board of trustees of New York’s New Museum; Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, collector, president of the foundation that bears her name, and, president of Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT; and Nicholas Serota, president of Arts Council England and a former director of London’s Tate..