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Carina Plath

From Curatorial Studies over Kunstverein to Sculpture Projects and Museum – Curatorship between Liberties, Conditions and Conservation


Carina Plath studied Art History, Classical Archaeology and Roman Literature in Münster, Bologna, Munich and Bochum. PhD on the 1970s work of Maria Nordman and Southern Californian art. From 1994 writing for Das Kunst-Bulletin and Neue Bildende Kunst, numerous essays on contemporary art. 1999-2001 Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York. 2001-2010 Director of the Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, solo exhibitions with Pawel Althamer (2002), Wilhelm Sasnal (2003), Valérie Favre (2004), Matthew Buckingham (2005), Gustav Metzger (2007) as well as thematic shows such as Formal Social (2002), Streik (2003) and T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G, (2005). 2005-2007 Associate Curator of skulptur projekte münster 07. From 2010 Curator for Painting and Sculpture, Sprengel Museum Hannover.