University of Pisa, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, 1977-1981, graduated Magna cum Laude 1981
Independent Curator. Honorary Guest Professor FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern, Switzerland, she has lectured widely at art and educational institutions and Universities for the Arts, including the Goethe University, Frankfurt; Harvard University, Cambridge; MIT, Boston; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli; Cooper Union, New York; The Courtauld Institute of Art, London; Monash University, Melbourne; Di Tella University, Buenos Aires; Northwestern University, Chicago, and Università di Torino, Turin. She was PhD thesis Supervisor at Royal College of Art, London in 2011, and is PhD thesis Supervisor at Aarhus University, Aarhus in 2025
Independent Guest Curator and Writer based in Turin, New York and Velletri
Member, Academic Research Council, 1OF1, Zug
Honorary Guest Professor, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern, Basel
Member, Commissioning Committee, Hartwig Art Foundation, Amsterdam
Advisor of the MUNCH Triennale, Oslo
DocStAr Laboratory Evaluation, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Artistic Director, Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti, Rivoli, Turin
Director, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli-Torino
Scientific Committee Member, Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, Turin
Director, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Visiting Scholar, GRI Getty Research Institute, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Curator, 14th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor in Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Harvard Museums Guest Lecturer on Innovative Curatorial Practice, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds
Pernod Ricard Visiting Professor in the Philosophy of Art and Naturecultures at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main / Institut für Philosophie, Frankfurt
Menschel Visiting Professor in Art, The Cooper Union, New York
Guest Professor in Critical Theory, M.F.A. program, The Art Institute of Boston, Lesley University, Boston
Artistic Advisory Board Member, Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul
Artistic Director dOCUMENTA 13 (2012), Kassel
Interim Director, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino
Artistic Director, 16th Biennale of Sydney (2008), Sydney
Chief Curator, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino
Senior Curator, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / a MoMA affiliate (MoMA PS1), New York
Independent Curator, Writer and Art Critic based in Rome
Hessian Cultural Prize (Hessischer Kulturpreis) as former Artistic Director of dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel
Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence, Bard College
1OF1 Innovation Award, Zug
"On Angels. Transcendence and Immanence" (provisional title), curated with X Zhu-Nowell, Rockbund Art Museum, forthcoming
“Fabio Mauri. Esperimenti nella verifica del Male”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (16 December – 24 March 2024) (with Sara Codutti and Marianna Vecellio)
“Michelangelo Pistoletto. Molti di uno (Many of One)”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (2 November – 25 February 2024) (with Marcella Beccaria) ⭢
“Artisti in guerra. Artists in a Time of War”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, (15 March – 19 November) (with Marianna Vecellio)
“Opere in viaggio. Un dipinto di Claude Monet alla Collezione Cerruti”, Collezione Cerruti, Rivoli (Turin), (25 November – 18 August 2024) (with Fabio Cafagna)
“Sensing Painting. Opere dalla Collezione d’arte della Fondazione CRC”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (27 October – 24 March 2024) (with Marcella Beccaria)
“Espressioni con Frazioni”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, (24 April – 17 July, Manica Lunga and Casa del Conte Verde, 24 April – 27 November, Castello di Rivoli and Villa Cerruti) (with Marcella Beccaria, Marianna Vecellio and Fabio Cafagna)
“Richard Bell”, in the frame of “Espressioni con Frazioni”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (24 April – 27 November)
“Beeple. Human One”, in the frame of “Espressioni con Frazioni”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (24 April – 27 November)
“Susan Philipsz: A Song A Part | A CIELO APERTO”, Rondò dei Talenti, Cuneo
“Bracha L. Ettinger. Bracha’s Notebooks”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (4 November – 26 March 2023) (with Marcella Beccaria and Andrea Viliani)
“Agnieszka Kurant. Crowd Crystal”, in the frame of “Espressioni con Frazioni”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (4 November – 26 February 2023)
“Pittura in Persona. La nuova Collezione della Fondazione CRC”, Complesso Monumentale di San Francesco, Cuneo, for Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (7 November – 6 March 2022) (with Marcella Beccaria)
“Otobong Nkanga. Of Cords Curling around Mountains”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (25 September – 3 July 2022) (with Marcella Beccaria)
“A.B.O. THEATRON. Art or Life”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (25 June – 30 January 2022) (with Andrea Viliani)
“Anne Imhof. SEX”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (15 March – 7 November) ⭢
“E LUCE FU. Giacomo Balla, Lucio Fontana, Olafur Eliasson and Renato Leotta”, Complesso Monumentale di San Francesco, Cuneo for Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (23 October – 20 June 2021) (with Marcella Beccaria)
“Giulio Paolini. Le Chef-d’oeuvre inconnu”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (15 October – 31 January 2021) (with Marcella Beccaria)
“William Kentridge, Respirare”, Chiesa di San Domenico, Alba (21 September – 8 December)
“Facing the Collector. The Sigg Collection of Contemporary Art from China”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (25 February – 21 June) (with Marcella Beccaria)
“Giorgio Morandi: Major Works from the Cerruti Collection”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino
(25 February – 30 August) (with Fabio Cafagna and Laura Cantone)
“Renato Leotta. Sole”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (25 February – 27 September) (with Marianna Vecellio)
“James Richards. Alms for the Birds”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (25 February – 30 August) (with Marianna Vecellio)
“Michael Rakowitz”, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (11 March – 22 November) (with Iwona Blazwick)
“Claudia Comte. How to Grow and Still Stay the Same Shape”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (October 31 – January 10 2021) (with Marianna Vecellio)
“For an Imaginist Renewal of the World. Pellizza da Volpedo (Taner Ceylan), Pinot Gallizio (with Constant, Giorgio Gallizio, Asger Jorn, Jan Kotik and Piero Simondo), Piero Simondo, Mario Merz”, Fondazione CRC, Chiesa di San Domenico, Alba (22 September – 10 November)
“By Artists: From the Home to the Museum, from the Museum to the Home. Homages to the Works of the Cerruti Collection” a project in different chapters, (Liu Ding; Camille Henrot; Michael Rakowitz), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino
“Michael Rakowitz. Imperfect Binding”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (8 October – 19 January 2020) (with Iwona Blazwick)
“Michael Rakowitz. Imperfect Binding”, Whitechapel, London (4 June –5 August) (with Iwona Blazwick)
"Dall’argilla all’algoritmo. Arte e tecnologia. Dalle Collezioni di Intesa Sanpaolo e del Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea", Gallerie d’Italia, Milano (30 May – 8 September) (with Marcella Beccaria)
“Anri Sala AS YOU GO”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (26 February – 23 June) (with Marcella Beccaria)
“Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (26 February – 26 May) (with Glenn Philipsz and Pietro Rigolo)
"Hito Steyerl. The City of Broken Windows”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (1 November – 1 September 2019) (with Marianna Vecellio)
“Nalini Malani: The Rebellion of the Dead. Retrospective 1969-2018. Part II”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (18 September – 17 January 2019) (with Marcella Beccaria)
“Giorgio de Chirico. Major Works from the Collection of Francesco Federico Cerruti”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (6 March – 4 November) (with Fabio Cafagna and Laura Cantone)
“Arte Povera. A Creative Revolution”, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (17 May – 16 August) (with Dimitri Ozerkov)
“Anna Boghiguian”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (19 September – 7 January 2018) (with Marianna Vecellio)
“L’emozione dei COLORI nell’arte”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, and GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin (14 March – 23 July) (with Marcella Beccaria, Elena Volpato, Elif Kamisli and the scientific consultation by Vittorio Gallese and Michael Taussig)
“Wael Shawky”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (3 November – 5 February 2017) (with Marcella Beccaria)
“Ed Atkins”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (27 September – 29 January 2017) (with Marianna Vecellio)
“Organismi. Dall’Art Nouveau di Émile Gallé alla Bioarchitettura / Organisms. From Émile Gallé’s Art Nouveau to Bioarchitecture”, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin (4 May – 6 November) (with Virginia Bertone)
“Giovanni Anselmo. While the hand indicates, the light focuses, in universal gravitation one interferes, the earth finds its bearings, the stars come one hand’s span closer……”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (6 April – 25 September)
“Quel che fa un artista. Una mostra dalla Collezione permanente”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (6 April – 31 July)
“Intention to Know: The Thought Forms of Annie Besant”, Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago (29 December – 1 March 2016)
“dOCUMENTA(13). The dance was frenetic, animated, clattering, twisted, and lasted a long time”, various locations in Kassel, Kabul, Alexandria-Cairo, Banff (9 June – 16 September) (Artistic Director and Overall Curator. Members of the curatorial team included agents Chus Martinez [Head of Department], Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Pierre Huyghe, Sunjung Kim, Koyo Kouoh, Joasia Krysa, Marta Kuzma, Raimundas Malašauskas, Lívia Páldi, Kitty Scott, Andrea Viliani; as well as Leeza Ahmady, Hetti Perkins, Adam Kleinman, Sarah Rifky, Eva Scharrer, Nicola Setari; Advisory committee included Mario Bellatin, Iwona Blazwick, Ali Brivanlou, Donna Haraway, Salah Hassan, Michael Petzet, Jane Taylor, Alexander Tarakhovsky, Michael Taussig, Anton Zeilinger)
“Revolutions – Forms That Turn”, 16th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (18 June – 7 September)
"Susan Hiller" in the frame of “Concetto, Corpo e Sogno / Concept, Body and Dream”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (10 March – 30 July)
"Laurence Wiener" in the frame of “Concetto, Corpo e Sogno / Concept, Body and Dream”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (27 March – 30 July)
"Dan Graham" in the frame of “Concetto, Corpo e Sogno / Concept, Body and Dream”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (29 April – 30 July)
"Joseph Kosuth" in the frame of “Concetto, Corpo e Sogno / Concept, Body and Dream”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (16 May – 30 July)
"Joan Jonas: Two Works" in the frame of “Concetto, Corpo e Sogno / Concept, Body and Dream”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (30 May – 30 July)
“Faces in the Crowd: Images of modern life from Manet to today / Volti nella folla: Immagini della vita moderna da Manet a oggi”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, and Rivoli-Torino, Whitechapel Gallery, London (6 April – 10 July) (with Iwona Blazwick)
T1 Turin Triennial – “The Pantaguel Syndrome”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, GAM Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Turin (11 November – 19 March 2006) (with Francesco Bonami)
“Franz Kline”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (20 October – 30 January 2005)
“Pierre Huyghe”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (21 April – 18 July)
“William Kentridge”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (10 January – 29 February)
“I moderni / The Moderns”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (16 April – 3 August)
“Animations”, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA affiliate, New York (14 October 2001 – 13 January 2002); touring Kunst-Werke, KW - Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (8 February – 6 April 2003)
“Janet Cardiff: A Survey of Works including collaborations with George Bures Miller”, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA affiliate, New York (14 October 2001 – 31 January 2002); touring (Montreal, Miami, Turin, 21 May – 31 August 2003)
“Greater New York”, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA affiliate, New York (27 February – 30 May) (with Alanna Heiss, Klaus Biesenbach, Glenn Lowry, Roxana Marcocci, Rob Storr, et al.)
“Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties”, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA affiliate, New York (21 May – 30 September)
“Some New Minds”, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA affiliate, New York (17 December – 28 February 2001)
“La Ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire”, a triennial exhibition series, Villa Medici, Rome (with Laurence Bossé and Hans Ulrich Obrist) [La Ville (29 May – 30 August 1998); La Mémoire "Ville99" (28 May – 29 August 1999); Le Jardin (21 June – 24 September 2000)]
“Città-Natura”, city-wide exhibition, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Museo zoologico; Villa Mazzanti and Orto Botanico, Rome (21 April – 23 June) (with Ludovico Pratesi)
“Alberto Burri”, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (9 November – 15 January 1997); Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels (5 June – 17 August); Lenbachhaus, Munich (5 February 1997 – 6 April 1997)
“Il suono rapido delle cose / The Rapid Sound of Things / A Homage to John Cage” for the XLV Biennale di Venezia Arti Visive, Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Granai delle Zitelle, Venice (14 June – 10 October) (with Angela Vettese, Ludovico Pratesi and Alanna Heiss)
“On taking a normal situation and retranslating it into overlapping and multiple readings of conditions past and present”, for Antwerp ’93: European Capital of Culture, MuKHA – Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium (19 September – 28 November) (with Iwona Blazkwick and Yves Aupetitallot)
"Molteplici Culture", Museo del Folklore, Convento di S. Egidio, Rome (19 May – 19 June) (with Ludovico Pratesi)
“Storie”, Galleria Alice, Rome and Studio Casoli, Milan
"Mel Bochner: Fontana's light: omaggio a Lucio Fontana", Studio Casoli, Milan (December – January 1992)
“Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Rodney Graham, Robert Kleyn”, Studio Casoli, Rome
"Davvero. Ragioni pratiche nell'arte", galleria L'Osservatorio, Milan (with Giacinto di Pietrantonio and Angela Vettese)
“Non in Codice: Judith Barry, Dara Birnbaum, Barbara Ess, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, John Knight”, American Academy in Rome, Canadian Cultural Center in Rome and Galleria Pieroni, Rome (October – November)
- unless otherwise mentioned all publications are by C. Christov-Bakargiev
Non in Codice [American Academy in Rome and Galleria Pieroni, Rome], 1987 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “La distanza dell'esperienza: cronaca di una mostra”, in Davvero. Ragioni pratiche nell'arte [galleria L'Osservatorio, Milan] 1988 (catalogue)
Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Rodney Graham, Robert Kleyn [Studio Casoli, Milan], 1988 (catalogue)
Bestiarium, Jardin-Theatre [Art Contemporain, Entrepot-Galerie du Confort Moderne, Poitiers], 1989, pp. 9-13 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Heading for Places, Looking at Object in the Eighties”, in Lifesize, A Sense of the Real in Recent Art [The Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem], 1990, pp. 33-44 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Sherrie Levine”, in Un Art de la distinction [Abbaye St. André, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac], 1990 (catalogue)
Storie [Studio Casoli, Milan, Marco Noire, Turin and Galleria Alice, Rome], 1991 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, "Con Mel Bochner / With Mel Bochner", in Mel Bochner: Fontana's light: omaggio a Lucio Fontana [Studio Casoli, Milan], 1991, pp. 7, 20-21 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Essay, in Chen Zhen [Galleria Valentina Moncada, Rome], 1991 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, "Molteplici Culture", in Molteplici Culture [Carte Segrete, Rome 1992], pp. 11-13 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Essay, in Edge '92 [London – Madrid], 1992 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “A Normal Situation Retranslated”, in Iwona Blazwick, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Yves Aupetitallot, eds., Antwerp '93 "on taking a normal situation and retranslating it into over lapping and multiple readings of conditions past and present" [MUKHA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen, Belgium], 1993, pp. 11-19 (catalogue)
Mel Bochner, Via Tasso [Museo Storico della Liberazione, Carte Segrete, Rome], 1993 (catalogue)
Fabio Mauri, Via Tasso [Museo Storico della Liberazione, Carte Segrete, Rome], 1993 (catalogue)
Lawrence Weiner, Via Tasso [Museo Storico della Liberazione, Carte Segrete, Rome], 1993 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Viaggiamo in aereo, ma pensiamo a cavallo, un omaggio italiano a John Cage”, in La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 1993 (catalogue)
Willie Doherty [British School in Rome, Rome], 1993 (brochure)
Mona Hatoum [British School in Rome, Rome], 1994 (brochure)
Fabio Mauri. Opere e Azioni 1954-1994 [Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna], Giorgio Mondadori, Rome, 1994 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, "Arte Identità Confini" in Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Ludovico Pratesi, eds., Arte Identità Confini, Carte Segrete, Rome, 1995, pp. 9-14 (book)
Willie Doherty [Kunsthalle Bern, Bern], 1996 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Appunti sull'arte italiana e internazionale negli anni 80 e 90”, in Ultime Generazioni [Esposizione Nazionale Quadriennale d'Arte di Roma, Rome], Ed. De Luca, Rome 1996, p. 225 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Alberto Burri: la superficie a rischio”, in Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Burri, Electa, Milan, 1996, pp. 47-62 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Città Natura [Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome], Ed. Fratelli Palombi, Rome, 1997 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Haim Steinbach”, in Haim Steinbach. Zero per Cent [Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Austria], 1997 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Arte Povera [Kunstverlag Inzvild G.M.B.H., Munich], 1997 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Ursus Maritimus”, in Mark Dion [Ikon Gallery, Birmingham], 1997, pp. 44-45 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Introduction, in Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Hans Ulrich Obrist, eds., Uccelli / Birds, Ed. I Libri di Zerynthia, Rome, 1997, pp. 12-14 (book)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, "La Ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire: conversazione", in Laurence Bossé, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Hans Ulrich Obrist, eds., La Ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire [Villa Medici, Rome], 1998, pp. 9-14 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., William Kentridge [Palais des Beaux Arts de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium], 1998 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Un parcours: reflet de grosses gouttes de verre placées sous la fenêtre / Un percorso: riflessi di grosse gocce di vetro posate sotto la finestra / A Pathway: Reflections of Large Drops of Glass Beneath the Window", in Laurence Bossé, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Hans Ulrich Obrist, eds., La Ville, le Jardin, la Memoire [Villa Medici, Rome] 1999, pp. 13-31; 31-48; 48-64 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Interview”, in Dan Cameron, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, J.M. Coetzee, eds., William Kentridge, Phaidon Press, London, 1999 (book)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Arte Povera, Phaidon Press, London, 1999 (book)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Around 1984: A look at art in the Eighties, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2000 (publication in newspaper format designed by Peter Halley)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Appunti sull’opera di Luca Vitone”, in Luca Vitone. stundàiu, S8zero/project room, Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, Rome, 2000, pp. 10-17 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, "Bestiarium", "Maria Eichhorn", "Teresita Fernandez", "Interview with Max Neuhaus", in Laurence Bossé, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Hans Ulrich Obrist, eds., La Ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire [Villa Medici, Rome], 2000, pp. 9-10; 10-11; 12; 12-14 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Janet Cardiff”, in Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Vol. 2, 2000, pp. 110-113 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “William Kentridge”, in Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Vol. 2, 2000, pp. 98–99 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Essay, in Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2000 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “John Wesley’s Capricci”, in A. Heiss, John Wesley, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2000, pp. 29-35 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Santiago Sierra. Person Remunerated for a Period of 360 Consecutive Hours, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2000 (brochure)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Some New Minds, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2000 (brochure)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Georges Adéagbo. Abraham – L’ami de Dieu, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2000 (brochure)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Arturo Herrera, California UCLA, Hammer Projects, Los Angeles, 2001 (brochure)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Luigi Ontani: 1969–2001, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2001 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Massimo Bartolini: Untitled (Wave), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2001 (brochure)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Thrust into the whirlwind: Italian Art before Arte Povera”, in Arte Povera, Tate Modern, London, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2001 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Janet Cardiff, Including Works Done in Collaboration with George Bures Miller, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2001 – Musée d’art contemporain de Monréal, Montreal - Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, 2002 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Arte Povera circa 1967 and today”, in Arte Povera, Art from Italy 1967-2002, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2002 (catalogue)
“Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Liam Gillick in conversation”, in The Producers: Contemporary Curators in conversation (4), Baltic, University of Newcastle, 2002 (book)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., The Moderns / I moderni, Skira, Milan - Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, 2003 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., William Kentridge, Skira, Milan - Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, 2004 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Pierre Huyghe, Skira, Milan - Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, 2004 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Iwona Blazwick, eds., Faces in the Crowd. Picturing Modern Life from Manet to today / Volti nella folla. Immagini della vita moderna da Manet a oggi, Skira, Milan, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2004 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Franz Kline, Skira, Milan - Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, 2004 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Essay, in Susan Philipsz, Malmo Konsthal, Malmo, 2005 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Essay, in P. Schimmel, Ecstasy [Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles], The MIT Press 2005 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Essay, in Miroslav Tichy, The Artist With the Bad Camera, Fondation Tichy Ocean, Walter Konig, 2008 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Revolutions – Forms That Turn, Thames and Hudson - Biennale of Sydney, 2008 (catalogue)
“Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, "On Macuga and The Nature of the Beast”, in Goshka Macuga: The Nature of the Beast, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2009 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Thomas Ruff, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, and Skira, Milan, 2009 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Gianni Colombo, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, and Skira, Milan, 2010 (catalogue)
Conversation between Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Daniel Birnbaum, Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg: The Campo del Cielo Meteorites. Vol. 1: El Taco, dOCUMENTA(13) - Hatje Cantz, Osterfildern, 2010 (book)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Essay, in Jonathan Watkins, ed., Nedko Solakov: All in Order, with Exceptions, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2011 (catalogue)
“Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev: Letter to a Friend”, in 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, No. 003, dOCUMENTA(13) - Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2011 ⭢ (brochure)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “On the Destruction of Art—Or Conflict and Art, or Trauma and the Art of Healing”, in 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, No. 040, dOCUMENTA(13) - Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2011 (brochure)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Introduction in Mark Lombardi. 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, No. 071, dOCUMENTA(13) - Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2012 (brochure)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev in conversation with Dinh Q Lê”, in Dinh Q. Lê. 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, No. 073, dOCUMENTA(13) - Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2012 (brochure)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Introduction, in Alanna Heiss, Placing the Artist. 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, No. 074, dOCUMENTA(13) - Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2012 (brochure)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Introduction, in Rudolf Arnheim, 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, No. 100, dOCUMENTA(13) - Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2012 (brochure)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Foreword and Interview, in Füsun Onur. Retrospective, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2012, (book)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Preface by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Conversation with Theaster Gates, in Theaster Gates: 12 Ballads for Huguenot House, dOCUMENTA(13) - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2012
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Introduction and conversation with Etel Adnan, in Etel Adnan: Works 1965–2011, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut/Hamburg, 2012 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Interview with Nalini Malani, in Nalini Malani: In Search of Vanished Blood, dOCUMENTA(13) - Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2012 (book)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “The dance was very frenetic, lively, rattling, clanging, rolling, contorted, and lasted for a long time”, in Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., dOCUMENTA(13): 1/3 The Book of Books, documenta und Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs-GmbH and Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2012 ⭢
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., dOCUMENTA(13) Catalog 2/3: Logbook, documenta und Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs- GmbH and Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2012
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Concept and Author, 3, volume catalogue of dOCUMENTA(13): 1/3 The Book of Books, 2/3 The Logbook, 3/3: The Guidebook, edited by Bettina Funcke, documenta und Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs-GmbH and Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2012 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Introduction in Horst Hoheisel / Aschrottbrunnen 2012, Förderverein der Gedenkstätte Breitenau und die Stadt Kassel, Kassel, 2012 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Foreword, in Dora Garcia: Mad Marginal Number 3: Klau Mich, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2012 (book)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Contribution to Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg: The Campo del Cielo Meteorites - Vol. 2: El Chaco, dOCUMENTA(13) - Hatje Cantz, Osterfildern, 2012 (book)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Live like a frog and die like a snake: conversations with Sopheap Pich”, in Sopheap Pich / Sculptures 2004 – 2013, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, 2013 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev,“Arte Povera: Radical Uses Of Materials, Processes, And Situations”, in Stedelijk collection reflections: reflections on the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, nai010 Publishers, Amsterdam, New York, 2013, Jan van Adrichem, Adi Martis eds. (catalogue of collection)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Sopheap Pich – Interview”, in Erin Gleeson, Barbara Barsch and Erv Fischer, eds., connect: Phnom Penh: Rescue Archaeology, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Berlin, 2013 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “On art and dreaming: the singular and the collective from cement to compost: an interview with Rosella Biscotti”, in Secession (ed.), Rossella Biscotti. The Side Room, Revolver Verlag, Berlin, 2013 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Notes on Writing, Thoughts on Art”, afterward, in Lori Waxman, 60 wrd/min art critic, One Star Press, Paris, 2013 (book)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Enchantment-ification: Notes on the work of Lea Porsager”, in Lea Porsager: FOOD FOR THE MOON_Sluggish and Well-lubricated, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK), Høvikodden, Norway, 2013, pp. 22-29 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Notes on a Collection of Arte Povera”, in Eyes Wide Open: An Italian Vision, London, Christie’s, 2014 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Arte Povera: circa 1967 and today”, in Eyes Wide Open: An Italian Vision, London, Christie’s, 2014 (catalogue), emended excerpt from Arte Povera: Art from Italy 167-2002, Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Alberto Burri: Expanding the Field of Painting”, in Eyes Wide Open: An Italian Vision, London, Christie’s, 2014 (catalogue), note and emended excerpt from Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1967- 1972, London, 2001.
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “To Watch, to Listen, to Sing a Lullaby”, in Brigitte Franzen and James Lingwood, eds., Susan Philipsz: You Are Not Alone, Köln, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2014 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Wael Shawky: Commitment and the Practice of Art-Making as a Form of Engaged Storytelling – A Celebration of Puppets and not Puppeteers”, in Susanne Pfeffer and Heike Catherina Mertens, Ernst Schering, Wael Shawky: Al Araba Al Madfuna, König Books, London, 2014 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “On anger, fear, laughter and the art of healing”, in Stuart Ringholt: Kraft, Melbourne, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2014 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Worldy Worlding: The Imaginal Fields of Science/Art", in Fan Di’An and Zhang Ga, thingworld: International Triennial of New Media Art 2014, Beijing, National Art Museum of China, 2014 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Arte Povera, London, Phaidon, 2014 (paperback edition)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “A Note on Francis Alys and his Afghan works 2010-2014” and “And So, What the Artist Does. With Pencils”, in Francis Alÿs, Reel-Unreel, Milan, Electa / Warsaw, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle / Naples, Museo Madre, 2014 (catalogue)
“Panel response to Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Nicholas Cullinan, and Ming Tiampo”, in Allan Schwartzman, ed., Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, Bologna, Damiani, 2014 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Concept and Author, 14° İstanbul Bienali / 14th Istanbul Biennial - TUZLU SU Düşünce Biçimleri Üzerine Bir Teori / SALTWATER A Theory of Thought Forms. Katalog / Catalogue, İKSV - İstanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfı in scope of the 14th Istanbul Biennial, 2015 (book) ⭢
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., “SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms”, in 14° İstanbul Bienali / 14th Istanbul Biennial - TUZLU SU Düşünce Biçimleri Üzerine Bir Teori / SALTWATER A Theory of Thought Forms. Katalog / Catalogue, İKSV - İstanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfı in scope of the 14th Istanbul Biennial, 2015 (book)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Foreword, in Bracha Ettinger, And My Heart, Wound-Space Within Me. Eurydice – Medusa, 2015 (artist’s book published in the framework of the 14th Istanbul Biennial)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “A brief monologue about Ana Prvački’s art”, in Finding comfort in an uncomfortable imagination. A catalogue of ideas by Ana Prvački, Singapore, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore / LASALLE College of the Arts, 2015 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Foreword, in Carolee Thea, On Curating II, New York, D.A.P. Publications, 2016, (book)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Introduction and “To cross that sunlit landscape for a little longer – particles and particulars”, in Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Giovanni Anselmo, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, and Milan, Skira, 2016 (catalogue)
Introduction and Essay: “Verso una consapevolezza ecologica: una sequenza temporale”, in Organismi. Dall’Art Nouveau di Émile Gallé alla Bioarchitettura, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin, and Milan, Skira, 2016 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Rendere conto di sé. Parliamone in 5341 parole”, in Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Ed Atkins, Torino - Milano, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, and Milan, Skira, 2016 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Wael Shawky: these are things of this earth, which will persist on this earth”, in Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Wael Shawky, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and Milan, Skira, 2016 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Drawing Chronicles: Wael Shawky's Cabaret Crusades and the Fall of Teleological History”, in Abdellah Karroum, Laura Barlow, Wael Shawky: Crusades and Other Stories, Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art and Cinisello Balsamo, Silvana Editoriale, 2016 (essay in catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Marisa Merz”, in Butler, Cornelia, ed., The Sky is a Great Space, Hammer Museum and Metropolitan Museum, Prestel, New York and London, 2017 (essay in catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “The World Ends Not With A Bang, But With A Whimper. Fabio Mauri’s Il televisore che piange”, in Chiara Costa, ed., Tv 70: Francesco Vezzoli Guarda La Rai, Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2017, pp. 237-243 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Possibly… He was the Lamb. Anna Boghiguian’s Expanded Book”, in Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Anna Boghiguian, Castello di Rivoli Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino and Skira, Milan, 2017 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “A Color that is a Form of Thinking”, in Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Colori. Emotions of color in art, Castello di Rivoli Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino and GAM, Torino, Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo, 2017 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Gilberto Zorio: prima che le parole brucino. Una conversazione” in Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Gilberto Zorio, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino and Skira, Milan, 2017 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Those who were seen dancing: Harald Szeemann and Armand Schulthess”, in Glenn Phillips and Philipp Kaiser, eds., Harald Szeemann, The Kingdom of Obsession, Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2018 (essay in catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Max Neuhaus, Les pianos ne poussent pas sur les arbres, Ecrits et entretiens, Les presses du reel, in the collection Ohcetecho devoted to sound studies, interview with Max Neuhaus from 2000 (at the P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center) within “Pianos don't grow on trees" by Neuhaus, 2019
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, "Dimenticano la violenza dei loro gesti. Finestre, schermi e atti pittorici in un tempo inquieto / They Are Oblivious to the Violence of Their Acts. Windows, Screens and Pictorial Gestures in Troubled Times", in Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Hito Steyerl. The City of Broken Windows, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, Milano, Skira, 2019 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, 2019 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Michael Rakowitz, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, and Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo (Milan), 2019 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, "Cecile B. Evans, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. A Conversation / Una Conversazione", in Lorenzo Giusti and Nicola Ricciardi, Museums at the Post-Digital Turn, AMACI - OGR and Mousse Publishing Contrappunto, 2019, pp. 125-139 (book)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Giuseppe Penone: Incidences of the void, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, 2019 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Anri Sala AS YOU GO, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, Skira, Milan 2019 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Marcella Beccaria, eds., Dall’argilla all’algoritmo. Arte e tecnologia. Dalle Collezioni di Intesa Sanpaolo e del Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Skira, Milano, 2019 (catalogue)
Essay in, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Eungie Joo, Adrián Villar Rojas, Phaidon Press, London, 2020 (book)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Facing the Collector. The Sigg Collection of Contemporary Art from China, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, 2020 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Enchantment-ification: Notes on the work of Lea Porsager”, in Lea Porsager [?!], Moderna Museet, Mousse publishing, Milano, 2020, pp. 258-281, emended excerpt from Lea Porsager: FOOD FOR THE MOON_Sluggish and Well-lubricated, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK), Høvikodden, Norway, 2013, pp. 22-29 (essay)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, "Shimmering", in Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., E luce fu, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, 2020, pp. 18-23 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, "La scomparsa del pubblico. Per una vita riservata / The disappearance of the public. In praise of a reserved life", in Marcella Beccaria, ed., Giulio Paolini: Le Chef-d’oeuvre inconnu, Recital. Scritture in versi | Writings in verse, 1987-2020, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, 2020, pp. 36-43 (catalogue, ed. by Marcella Beccaria)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, "The Transitional Realm / Il mondo transizionale", in Gianluigi Ricuperati, ed., Elisa Sighicelli 9 Years, Skira, Milano, 2020, pp. 8, 268 (catalogue) ⭢
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Bracha L. Ettinger. BRACHA’s Notebooks / A publication devoted to Bracha L. Ettinger’s Notebooks (1984-2021), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, Skira, Milan, 2021 (catalogue)
Beeple Everymonths, series of conversations online with Mike Winkelmann, alias Beeple, conducted in 2021, 2022 and 2023, Cosmo digitale, Castello d Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Pittura in persona. La nuova Collezione della Fondazione CRC / Painting in Person. The New Collection of Fondazione CRC, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, 2021 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Andrea Viliani, eds., A.B.O. Theatron L’Arte o la Vita – Art or Life, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino and Skira, Milano, 2021 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., The Cerruti Collection General Catalogue, 2 Vols., Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti and Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, Allemandi Editore, Turin, 2021, (book)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Claudia Comte: An Anthology of Wall Paintings: How to Grow and Still Stay the Same Shape, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, 2021 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Vessels, Plants and Reparations: Otobong Nkanga’s Art of Healing” in Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Marcella Beccaria, eds., Otobong Nkanga. When looking across the sea / Do you dream? Of cords curling around mountains, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, and Villa Arson, Nice, Skira, Milano, 2023 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Marcella Beccaria, eds., Sensing Painting. Opere dalla Collezione d’arte della Fondazione CRC / Sensing Painting. Works from the Collection of Fondazione CRC, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, 2023 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Anne Imhof. SEX, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, and Milano, Skira, 2023 (catalogue) ⭢
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Marcella Beccaria, eds., Le Collezioni del Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea / The Collections of Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, 2 Vols., Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, Allemandi Editore, Turin, 2023, (book)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., "How to compose a choreography of fragments in nine episodes”, in SELF-PORTRAIT AS A COFFEE-POT, Arsenale Institut of Representation, Venice, 2024 (catalogue)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., ARTE POVERA, Pinault Collection, Dilecta, Paris, 2024 (catalogue) ⭢
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, "Laudatio Anna Boghiguian: Ein Gedicht oder Die Bedeutung von Rosen. Laudation Anna Boghiguian: A Poem. Or, The Importance of Roses", in Pia Gamon, ed., Anna Boghiguian, Wolfgang Hahn Preis 2024 / 2014 Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig e.V., Verlag der Buchhandlung, Walther und Franz König, Cologne, 2025, pp.26-45 (essay) ⭢
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, "Il Terzo Paradiso come creazione del mondo", in Achille Bonito Oliva, Valentino Catricalà, eds., REBIRTH. Dal Terzo Paradiso alla Formula della Creazione / From the Third Paradise to the Formula of Creation, Fondazione Pistoletto Città dell'Arte, Biella, 2025 (essay) ⭢
Fabio Mauri. Catalogo generale / Catalogue Raisonné, Allemandi editore, Turin, and Hatje Cantz, Berlin, forthcoming (book)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Michelangelo Pistoletto. The Book of Works and Books / Il libro delle opere e dei libri, Hatje Cantz, Berlin, forthcoming (book)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, "Theaster Gates and Arte Povera", in Theaster Gates, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2025 forthcoming (essay)
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Espressioni. Espressioni con frazioni. Artisti in guerra, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, forthcoming (catalogue)
Periodicals (selection)
Over one hundred articles published between 1983 and 2013 in Reporter, Roma; Giornale dell’Arte, Turin; Il Sole 24 Ore, Milan; Flash Art, Milan; Janus, Bruxelles; Artforum, New York
"Arte cieca e deprivazione visiva", in Rivista di Psicologia dell'Arte, vol.IV, n.6/7, June-December, 1983
“Notes on some works by Maria Eichhorn”, in Afterall, n.1, The London Institute, London, 1999, pp.29-42
“Some poems written during dOCUMENTA(13)”, in The Exhibitionist, n.7, The Exhibitionist and Archive Books, Berlin/Turin, January 2013
“Adrián Villar Rojas”, in Artforum, n.4, New York, December 2013, pp.236-239
“In the screen: insomnia for various contrary forms of universe”, in Hauser & Wirth, n. 5, March-May 2015, pp.48-53; translation and excerpt from C. Christov-Bakargiev, “Nello schermo: insonnia per diverse forme contrarie di universo” (Rome, 1994)
Ludovico Pratesi, "La nuova signora dell'arte di Torino è pronta alla sfida", in Il venerdì, La Repubblica, 4 September 2015, p.83
“Knotty by Nature. A conversation between Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, William Irvine, Jean-Michel Vappereau, and Ed Atkins”, in Mousse n.50, Contrappunto, Milan, October-November 2015, pp.218-225
“A Color That Is A Form Of Thinking” in Mousse n.57, Milan, February-March, 2017, pp.178-185
“Julian Schnabel”, in Flash Art, December 1985 – translated and published in 2017 for the research project "Art of the United States in European Writing ca. 1945-1990" by Claudia Hopkins and Prof. Iain Boyd Whyte, School of History of Art, University of Edinburgh
"Eurycide and her notebooks". Bracha L. Ettinger special, in Nova Express, vol.2, September 2022, pp.81-83
PAROLA Magazine – Museum issue, October 2022
A selection of statements: "Revolution Forms That Turns", "The dance was very frenetic", "SALTWATER: a Theory of Thought-Forms", "A world were strawberries can vote", and the selection of poems: "Gorky", "Bactrian", "The Lake", Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev special, in Nova Express, vol.6, July 2023, pp.64-83
"One More Time", in APOLLO. The International Art Magazine, London, n.734, October 2024, pp.74-79 ⭢
"Arte povera. Trecento milioni di anni", in Flash Art Agenda Italia, n.1, 2025, pp.228-238 ⭢
May 02 2009, Public conversation, Curatorial Session with Raimundas Malasauskas, Bart De Baere, and Tone Olaf Nielson, Upstairs Space, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
May 28 2009, “Che fare? / What is to be done?”, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main
October 16 2009, Conversation with Brian Jungen, Hirschhorn Museum and National Museum of American Indian Smithsonian Institution, Washington
October 19 2009, Lecture, introduced by Mary Kelly, UCLA - University of California, Los Angeles
October 21 2009, “Global Art in the Downturn”, Panel discussion with Jens Hoffmann, Hou Hanru, and Dominic Willsdon, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
October 22 2009, Lecture, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
October 26 2009, “Notes towards dOCUMENTA(13)”, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
October 28 2009, Lecture, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff
November 14 2009, “Gianni Colombo”, Symposium "«Œuvres ouvertes». Umberto Eco at la scène Italienne des années ‘60", Musée du Louvre, Paris
February 15 2010, “The dance was very frenetic - Notes towards dOCUMENTA(13) - 2012”, 1 Shanti Road Studio/Gallery, Bangalore
February 18 2010, “The dance was very frenetic - Notes towards dOCUMENTA(13) – 2012” Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
March 2 2010, “Miroslav Tichý and the Last Snapshot”, in conversation with Brian Wallis, International Center of Photography, New York
March 11 2010, In conversation with Susan Philipsz, VR Auditorium, Helsinki, in association with Pro Arte Foundation Finland
May 3 2010, Lecture, Cooper Union School of Art, New York
May 19 2010, Lecture-Seminar for MA students, Royal College of Art, London
June 7 2010, “Notes on dOCUMENTA(13), 2012”, Lecture with contributions by anthropologist Michael Taussig and artists Francis Alÿs and Mario Garcia Torres, Timur Shah Mausoleum, Kabul
July 28 2010, Lecture, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
September 16 2010, Lecture and conversation with Lisette Lagnado, Goethe-Institut São Paulo, São Paulo
September 18 2010, International Curators Meeting, Public presentation and discussion Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo
October 4 2010, Talk for students, Northwestern University, Chicago
October 6 2010, Lecture, Harbourfront Centre, The Power Plant, Toronto
October 15 2010, “Entanglement: Notes Towards dOCUMENTA(13)”, in the framework of the “Global Aesthetics: Intersecting Culture, Theory, Practice” conference organized by The Society for the Humanities & Mellon Central New York Humanities Corridor, October 15-16, 2010 Cornell University, Ithaca
January 22 2011, Book presentation, 'seeing studies' by Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Ashkan Sepahvand, dOCUMENTA(13) artist book published in cooperation with Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht
February 02 2011, “Ka - the person: carefully balanced on the edge of a hole in time / between collapse and recovery and the role of art in processes of civic society building”, in the framework of the “Culture and Conflict – Our Mandate, Our Interests, Our Potentials” workshop organized by the Goethe-Institut and.V., Munich
February 10 2011, “Attaining Full Equality: Women Artists, Museums, and Markets”, Panel discussion, on occasion of CAA Centennial session on feminism, with Connie Butler, Carol Duncan, Catherine Morris, Katja Ziegerlin, Rendezvous Trianon, Hilton, New York
February 14 2011, Conversation with Pierre Huyghe, on occasion of his new film The Host and the Cloud, Gloria Cinema, Kassel
April 14 2011, Lecture, in the framework of lecture series “Curating the context”, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen
April 21 2011, “dOCUMENTA(13) in a state of hope”, Lecture, and presentation of dOCUMENTA(13) notebooks, Goethe Institut, Cairo
May 10 2011, “100 Notes – 100 Thoughts”, Presentation of dOCUMENTA(13) notebooks, Artists Space, New York
May 19 2011, “100 Notizen – 100 Gedanken / 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts”, Talk and presentation of dOCUMENTA(13) notebooks, ArteBA, Open Forum, Buenos Aires
May 25 2011, “The history of documenta”, Embassy of Hessia, Brussels
May 27 2011, “Notes on documenta”, on occasion of documenta Archive Jubilee 2011 conference, Evangelische Akademie Hofgeismar
June 29 2011, “…and lasted for a long time”, DLDwomen Conference, Munich ⭢
July 19 2011, “Cum-fligere: The Commitment of Art in Processes of Healing and Repair; to Become Worldly Together”, for the symposium “Reflecting Conflicts through Cultural Initiatives: Perspectives from Southeast Asia”, organized by the Goethe-Institut and Japan Foundation in cooperation with the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok
August 24 2011, “Jimmie Durham’s sceptical universe: notes towards a study of his art”, The Artist's Institute, New York
September 3 2011, “En route to dOCUMENTA(13)”, documenta-Halle, Kassel
October 15 2011, “100 Notizen – 100 Gedanken / 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts”, presentation of dOCUMENTA(13) notebooks, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
October 17 2011, Student workshop and public lecture, dOCUMENTA(13), Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
October 18 2011, Student workshop and public lecture, dOCUMENTA(13), Academy of Fine Arts Münster, in collaboration with LWL Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Münster
October 19 2011, Student workshop and public lecture, dOCUMENTA(13), Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, in collaboration with Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart
October 25 2011, Laudatio Goshka Macuga, on occasion of the Arnold Bode Prize 2011, Kasseler Kunsverein e.V., Kassel
October 27 2011, “En route to dOCUMENTA(13) / Art and Destruction”, German Academy Villa Massimo, Rome
November 02 2011, Student workshop and public lecture, dOCUMENTA(13), Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, in collaboration with Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf
November 24 2011, “En route to dOCUMENTA(13)”, public conversation with Prof. Martin Köttering, Hochschule für Bildenden Künste Hamburg, Germany; held in cooperation with Deichtorhallen Hamburg, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Kunstverein, Hamburg
November 30, 2011, “En route to dOCUMENTA(13)”, Kunsthochschule, Universität Kassel, Kassel
December 12 2011, “Kunst im Kontext”, public conversation with Kasper König Museum Ludwig, Cologne
January 16 2012, Public talk with Iwona Blazwick, Beit Ariela Cultural Center, Tel Aviv
February 6 2012, “Interpreting Art: Keys and Positions”, Queen’s Palace, Kabul
April 12 2012, Artist’s talk with Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Haus der Kunst, Munich
April 24 2012, “100 Notizen – 100 Gedanken / 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts”, presentation of dOCUMENTA(13) notebooks, Ashkal Alwan, the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Beirut
May 8 2012, “Boetti and Afghanistan”, Panel with Adam Curtis, Pip Rau and Mario Garcia Torres, on the occasion of the exhibition Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan, Tate Modern, London
May 19 2012, “Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev in conversation with Luca Massimo Barbero”, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
June 7 2012, “About Afghanistan: A conversation on 'KABUL-BAMIYAN Seminars and Exhibition'”, Panel discussion with Christov-Bakargiev, Mario Garcia Torres, Mariam Ghani, Chus Martínez, Aman Mojadidi, Abul Qasem Foushanji, Michael Rakowitz, and others, Ständehaus, Kassel
June 9 2012, Public conversation with following film premiere of Picasso in Palestine by Khaled Hourani and Rashid Masharawi, dOCUMENTA(13) Film Program, with Charles Esche and Khaled Hourani, Gloria Cinema, Kassel
June 11 2012, Introduction to “From Secret Speech to Subversive Affirmation”, “The Artists’ Congresses: A Congress”, dOCUMENTA(13) symposium, Ständehaus, Kassel
June 13 2012, Panel discussion, on the occasion of the screening of O.k. by Michael Verhoeven, with Hartmut Becker, Ulrich and Erika Gregor, Chus Martínez, Adam Kleinman, in the framework of the dOCUMENTA(13), Film Program Gloria Cinema, Kassel
June 29 2012, “On Conviviality: A Seminar on Living Together”, In conversation with Suely Rolnik, dOCUMENTA(13), Ständehaus, Kassel
July 4 2012, “The dance was very frenetic and lasted a long time”, in the framework of The Cairo Seminar, a position of dOCUMENTA(13), MASS, Alexandria
October 14, 2012, Terry Smith in conversation with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, organised by Independent Curators International (ICI), The New Museum, New York
October 15 2012, Columbia graduate colloquium, Master in Critical and Curatorial Studies, Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University, New York
October 20 2012, Lecture and panel, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union, New York
October 21 2012, “Is Warhol the most influential artist of the last fifty years?”, in the framework of the exhibition “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years”, the Metropolitan Museum of Arts The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, MET, New York
November 7 2012, “documenta 1955 and dOCUMENTA(13) 2012”, in the framework of the CCAA – Chinese Contemporary Art Awards 2012 Lecture Hall, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing
November 14 2012, “It's very difficult: on skepticism and value judgments. Notes from a curatorial perspective”, Keynote Speech for the Norwegian Arts Council Annual Conference, Folketeatret Hotel, Oslo
November 16 2012, “Art and Precariousness”, VIII ACCA International Symposium, MACBA, Barcelona
November 20 2012, “William Kentridge”, Keynote Speech in the framework of the public program, Jewish Historical Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
November 26 2012, “dOCUMENTA(13)”, Auditiorium di Santa Margherita, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice
December 11 2012, “Public Intimacy”, Dornbracht Conversation Series: Charlotte Klonk in conversation with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Susanne Pfeffer, Jeremy Shaw et al., KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
December 18 2012, Lecture, Zürich University of the Arts, Zürich
January 9 2013, “About dOCUMENTA(13): Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev in conversation with Helen Molesworth”, Lesley University, Boston
January 17 2013, Conversation with Giuseppe Penone, Centre Pompidou, Paris
January 18 2013, Discussion with Michael Rakowitz, supported by La Maison Rouge and Dena Art Foundation, INHA, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris
February 5 2013, “Ritratto di una città: Conversazione con Gianfranco Baruchello”, MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome
February 24 2013, “The dance was very frenetic: temporality, choreography and the locational turn of dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel, Kabul, Cairo-Alexandria and Banff”, Keynote Lecture, AGO, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
February 25 2013, “Visiting Artists Presentation: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev” SAIC, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
March 1 2013, “Nature and culture. The future we want”, Keynote Speech in the framework of Natur Congress, Congress Centre, Basel
March 1 2013, “On Arte Povera”, in the framework of Andrea Büttner exhibition MMK, Museum Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
March 7 2013, “Raccogliere Insieme: Tempo, Corpo, Spazio e Luoghi in dOCUMENTA(13)” Accademia di San Luca, Rome
March 14 2013, “Yes Naturally”, presentation and round table discussion, Gemeentemuseum - GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague
March 15 2013, A day of programming including a lecture and discussion of documenta in the framework of project “Where Are We Going Walt Whitman”, with Rene Gabri, Ayreen Anastas, Vinciane Despret, Marcos Lutyens, Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
March 26 2013, “What Dust Rises, What Clay is Fired: Performing Matter”, Keynote Lecture, Goethe Institut, New York
April 24 2013, “On Witnessing”, Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union, New York
May 7 2013, “On Witnessing, in relation to dOCUMENTA(13)”, in the framework of “Sofia Contemporary 2013”, Aula magna, Sofia University, Sofia
May 23 2013, “La danza è stata molto frenetica: temporalità, coreografia e rotazione della sede di dOCUMENTA(13) a Kassel, Kabul, Cairo-Alessandria e Banff”, Dottorato di Ricerca in Storia dell’Arte, Ciclo di Conferenze A.A. 2012-2013 “Esercizi di Singolarità”, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome
May 23 2013, “On Anna Boghiguian and Witnessing”, Conversation with Anna Boghiguian Kampnagel, Hamburg
July 27 2013, “A Conversation Around the Subject of Worlding and Naturecultures: Research in Art Today as a Practice of Intra-action and Multispecies Co-evolution”, Mildred’s Lane, The Mildred Complex(ity), Narrowsburg (NY)
September 22 2013, Talk related to the exhibition Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, The Warehouse, Dallas (TX)
November 1 2013, “Stuff and Matter: on the art of Marisa Merz and Adrian Villar Rojas”, Lecture organized by the Serpentine Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
November 13 2013, “The Locational Turn? Reflections from Chicago on documenta in Kassel, Alexandria, Banff and Kabul”, with Kristina Buch, Brian Holmes, Claire Pentecost, Michael Rakowitz, Dieter Roelstraete and Lori Waxman, The Block Museum at Northwestern University, Evanston (IL)
November 14 2013, “Notes on the ‘Brain’ at dOCUMENTA(13)”, LA><art, Los Angeles
December 8 2013, “The Distracted Exhibition. On Enchantment and Composting Archival Shreds”, 10th Annual Parodi Lecture in Philosophy of Art, University of Miami Philosophy Department, The Miami Art Museum, PMAM, Miami
February 7 2014, “Sine/syn/aesthesia. Without the enfolding of aesthesis: a symbiotic view of art as experience”, Keynote Lecture at the symposium "Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia and the Social", Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, London
February 2014, Leverhulme Institute Lectures I, first lecture of three in the frame of the Leverhulme Professorship 2013-2014, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds February 5, Session I, part 1⭢ ; February, Session I, part 2 "The making of dOCUMENTA 13"⭢ ; Session II, Close reading Karen Barad⭢ ; Session II, part 2, Close reading Karen Barad⭢ ; Session II, part 3, Close reading Karen Barad⭢ ; Session III, part 1, The dance was very frenetic⭢ ; Session III, part 2, The dance was very frenetic⭢ ; Session IV, part 1, Critical curatorial artistic practices⭢ ; Session IV, part 2, Critical curatorial artistic practices⭢
March 4-5 2014, Leverhulme Institute Lectures II, “Worlding. From the Archive to the Compost. Art and Creativity and Speculative Fabulations in Human and Non-human Sentient Beings”, second lecture of three in the frame of the Leverhulme Professorship 2013-2014, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds Session I, part 1⭢ ; Session I, part 2⭢
March 24 2014, “Synaesthesia”, Student Commons Theater, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
April 1 2014, “Women Modernists in dOCUMENTA(13)”, talk with Griselda Pollock, in the frame of the Leverhulme Professorship, 2013-2014, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, Gallery Walk, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield
April 2 2014, "The Art of Hospitality: Mario Garcia Torres and Alighiero Boetti at The One Hotel in Kabul", keynote lecture at the symposium "Setting", in the frame of the Leverhulme Professorship 2013-2014, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, The Buckley Lecture Theatre, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield
April 30 2014, “Worldly Worlding: Curating the Imaginal Fields of Science and Art”, Lecture organized by Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Northwest Building, University of Harvard, Cambridge, (MA)
May 19 2014, Leverhulme Institute Lecture III, “On Withnessing, Withdrawing, Retreating and Participating: Gifts, Debts and Lies / Trauma and Healing”, third lecture of three in the frame of the Leverhulme Professorship 2013-2014, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds Session III, part 1⭢ ; Session III, part 2⭢ ; Session III, part 3⭢
May 21 2014, “Some considerations on the question of sculpture: matter, materials, new materialisms”, lecture in the framework of the Leverhulme Professorship 2013-2014, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds
May 22 2014, “A centrifugal Brain: curating the imaginal fields of art and science with examples from dOCUMENTA(13)”, lecture in the framework of the Leverhulme Professorship 2013-2014, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, The Buckley Lecture Theatre, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield
June 9 2014, Lecture in the frame of "In the Name of the Thing symposium on thingworld: International Triennial of New Media Art", National Art Museum of China, Beijing
June 19 2014, “String Theory. The Aesthetic of Crafts and the Crafting of Politics. Some Commentary on the Work of Goshka Macuga, Etel Adnan, Alighiero Boetti and Hannah Ryggen”, a conversation with Rike Frank, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo
August 7 2014, “In Conversation: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Stuart Ringholt”, Artist talk, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
August 11 2014, Lecture organized by Monash University Museum of Art [MUMA], in association with Monash Art, Design and Architecture [MADA], MADA Lecture Theatre, Monash University, Melbourne
September 7 2014, "The 2nd Round Table Discussion Responding to the New Narrative for Europe Declaration – Domino in Venice", Arsenale, Venice
October 11 2014, “Curators in Conversation: Notes towards ‘documenta’ in Kassel in 2017”, Discussion with Adam Szymczyk, McCormick Auditorium at Norris University Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, (IL)
November 8 2014, “To Make Committed Exhibitions: Not κρίσις (krísis), Not κρίνω (krínō), Not to Separate, Not to Decide”, lecture in the framework of the international conference "Art History and Emergency", The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, (MA)
November 13 2014, “Wish You Were Here - Gertrude Stein”, discussion between Jens Hoffmann and “Gertrude Stein”, portrayed by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, in the frame of "Wish You Were Here" series of interviews, Scheuer Auditorium, Jewish Museum, New York
November 14 2014, "Worldly Worlding: Curating the Imaginal Fields of Science and Art", lecture in the framework of the seminar "Acts of Learning—or how to sensibly comprehend curiosity, will, and chance", organized by the Fundación Cisneros, Live-streamed from the offices of the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York
November 19 2014, “A Look at the 14th Istanbul Biennial”, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago (IL)
November 20 2014, “Cum-mittere - to put with, to put together: holding environments and knots in art work and work with art”, 8th AICA/USA Distinguished Critic Lecture at The New School, presented by the United States Chapter of International Association of Art Critics (AICA: Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art) in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics The New School, 12th Street Auditorium, New York
November 27 2014, “Let Us Speak of The Place of the Curatorial in Steinese - that was a solid thing, a charming thing, a lovely thing, a perplexing thing, a disconcerting thing, a simple thing, a clear thing, a complicated thing, an interesting thing”, Closing keynote in the framework of the conference "Collecting and Curating – A Positional Shift in the Art Scene?", organized by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Forum, Café Moskau, Berlin
January 24 2015, lecture on the work of artist Francis Alÿs ,Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
February 17 2015, lecture on the work of artist Pierre Huyghe, Bing Theatre, LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
April 3 2015, “Arab Artists in an International Context”, conversation with Chris Dercon in the framework of the international symposium "Exploring Contemporary Arab Art: 1995 – 2015", Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut
April 9 2015, "Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev in conversation with Ivo Mesquita", in the framework of the program "Talks - Art as a Value", co-organized by SP-Arte 2015 and Arte!Brasileiros magazine, Auditorium MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo
May 28 2015, "Reconsidering Harald Szeemann", organization and moderation of the panel, with the participation of Mario Garcia Torres, Alanna Heiss, Giuseppe Penone, Lea Porsager and Pietro Rigolo, as speakers, Harold M. Williams auditorium, The Getty Center, Los Angeles
June 3 2015, “Drawing Chronicles. Wael Shawky's Cabaret Crusades and the fall of teleological history”, Atrium, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
June 18 2015, lecture in the framework of the conference "Economies of Aesthetics. From Possible to Desirable", presented by ELIA – The European League of Institutes of the Arts in collaboration with FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel, FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Campus of the Arts, Basel
July 18 2015, participation in the panel "dOCUMENTA(13): Speculative Fabulations", in the framework of the symposium "documenta 1997-2017: expanding thought-collectives", documenta Halle, Kassel
September 2 – October 31 2015, The 14th Istanbul Biennial – SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms Speech Acts and Forms of Discourse, Istanbul
October 23 2015, “Acque dolci e salate: una teoria delle forme tra le arti e le scienze”, lecture in the framework of BookCity Milano, Teatro Franco Parenti, Milan
October 30 2015, “On Thought Forms, Annie Besant, Mad Science, Love and Politics”, lecture during the symposium "Thought Forms and Brain Waves: Neuro-Aesthetics and Art", organized in the framework of the 14th Istanbul Biennial – SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms, Cezayir, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
November 11 2015, reading of the lectures delivered by Gertrude Stein in 1934, in the frame the event "An Adventure Was Home: Gertrude Stein in Chicago", organized by the Poetry Foundation, Chicago, and co-sponsored with the Renaissance Society and the Arts Club of Chicago, The Poetry Foundation, Chicago
November 13 2015, “On Saltwater: A Theory of Thought Forms. The 14th Istanbul Biennial 2015”, lecture in the frame of the Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles
November 17 2015, “SALTWATER: from the Brain to the Channel. Concerning dOCUMENTA(13), 2012, and the 14th Istanbul biennial”, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago
November 19 2015, “The 14th Istanbul Biennial: On Annie Besant, thought forms, mad science, love and politics”, The Belkin Art Gallery Curatorial Lecture Series Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
February 24 2016, 5th Meeting of European and Ibero-American Museums, and ARCO Madrid
February 28 2016, “The Unorthodox Museum”, Keynote address symposium, The Jewish Museum, New York
February 29 2016, "Drafting exhibitions: empathy and artistic relations. An old way that might be the best way of doing things - beyond the notion of professionalism", Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) Lecture Series 2016, MIT, Boston
March 5 2016, Lecture on Alberto Burri, on occasion of the exhibition Alberto Burri. The Trauma of Painting, K21 Kunstsammlung Nord Rhein Westfalen, Dusseldorf
March 19 2016, Keynote lecture in the frame of the international colloquium "Aisthesis and the Common: Reconfiguring the Public Sphere", Media@McGill, MAC Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal
March 31 2016, "Drafting exhibitions: empathy and artistic relations. An old way that might be the best way of doing things - beyond the notion of professionalism”, Institute of Art History and Centre of Contemporary Art, Tallin
July 30 2016, Opening Keynote Address, Transart Triennale, Uferstudios, Berlin
September 3 - 5 2016, "Biennials in Transformation: Hybridization as New Challenge", IBA International Conference, Shanghai
November 19 2016, "The circus mistress and mastering the ceremony — A lecture", Keynote lecture in the frame of “The Museum and Its Responsibilities”, CIMAM 2016 Annual Conference, MACBA, Barcelona
January 19 2017, “Immaginare l’arte con Orhan: essere personaggio”, Giornata di Studi Orhan Pamuk, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan
February 16 2017, Art at Work, Curator’s Talk, Kampnagel Internationale Kulturfabrik GmbH, Hamburg
March 16 2017, “L’arte nel territorio”, Affidarte, un nuovo paradigma sul valore dell’arte, Conference presentation, Azimut, Palazzo Madama, Turin
April 26 2017, “Laudatio for Jimmie Durham”, Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee, MADRE Museum, Naples
October 6 2017, participation in panel discussion on “The Aesthetics of Display”, Frieze Masters Talks 2017, London
November 03 - 04 2017, "Cécile B. Evans, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev: a conversation", conference "Museums at the 'Post-digital' turn", convened by AMACI and OGR at OGR Turin
November 18 2017, “A Nine Point Charta”, Curatorial Activism and the Politics of Shock summit, SVA MA Curatorial Practice master’s program, School of Visual Arts, New York.
December 15 2017, Renaissance. A new artistic and discursive platform, Bruxelles
March 2 2018, MUSEO CITY 2018 – Conference on Arte contemporanea tra museo e collezionismo, Sala delle Otto Colonne, Palazzo Reale, Milan
March 25 2018, 21st Biennale of Sydney, ‘Biennale Archive Stories’ Lecture on 2008 Biennale,Revolution – Forms That Turn, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
May 19 2018, “The 'elsewhere' generation. Etymological concerns around the words 'research' and 'innovation' “- WatchYourBubble!, Humboldt University, School of Mind and Brain, Einstein Group Social Identity, Berlin
July 13 2018, “To deliver us from hybris: can the HI/AI divide be reconfigured in a more worldly alliance between NHI/HI/AI?”, Conference on Art and Aesthetics at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella´s Art Department, opening lecture, Buenos Aires
September 8 2018, Ted, Tempo delle Donne - NON BASTA UN GARAGE, CI VUOLE UNA VISIONE, Triennale, Milan
September 8 2018, THE WORK OF ART IN POST-HUMAN TIMES, Aesthetics Workshop, Conversation with Brunella Antomarini and Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, JCU, Discussion on Posthuman Studies and Emerging Arts and Technologies, Rome
July 21 2018, Conversation with Anna Boghiguian, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
October 3 2018, Moderator in conversation with Doris Salcedo and Julie Mehretu “On conflict, migration and diaspora” White Cube, London
November 26 – December 4 2018, Lead Professor Lecture and Seminar on Art and Cross-disciplinary Practice, SAFA (Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts), Shanghai
April 8 2019, Europe of Museums, General round table, Centre Pompidou, Paris July 10 – 13, 2019, 2019, Visioning Group, Cockatoo Island, Sydney
September 14 2019, Symposium on the limits of representation inspired by Elisa Sighicelli’s work, Is this a Photography? Is this a good question? - Accademia di Belle Arti Napoli, Faust Production, MiBAC, Villa Pignatelli, Naples
October 22 2019, Roundtable US-Italy Collaboration on Emerging Technologies: innovation and cultural environment in Torino Piemonte, Consolato Generale d’Italia, New York
November 6 2019, focus of the “Giornata del Contemporaneo – Italian Contemporary Art” – 5th edition of the Luxemburg Art Week, MUDAM, Luxemburg
December 7 2019, “Festival of Open Culture”, interview/conversation with Joseph Grima and Carlo Antonelli, Capital of Culture, Matera
March 4 2020, International platform XXIII TRIENNALE 2022, La Triennale di Milano, Milan
October 15 2020, The City of Truth, symposium, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden
March 18 2021, participation at the panel discussion "The Biennial Nation, in the frame if "March Meeting 2021: Unravelling the Present", Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah
April 9 2021, Beeple: Everymonths, Season I, Episode 1⭢ ; ⭢
May 28 2021, Beeple: Everymonths, Season I, Episode 2⭢
June 25 2021, Beeple: Everymonths, Season I, Episode 3⭢ ; ⭢
July 16 2021, Chiamata alle Arti. Conversazioni in giardini sui piaceri della cultura, MRT Musei Reali Turin
September 10 2021, Festival del Gruppo Gedi La Stampa – Repubblica - Ritorno al Futuro: la lezione di Covid e il domani della medicina, Teatro Carignano, Turin
October 31 2021, Beeple: Everymonths, Season I, Episode 4 ⭢
February 19 2022, "Full Spectrum Curatorship – Digital Archeology", talk in the frame of "CONTEMPORARY CURATING: RADICAL, DIGITAL, DIVERSE, Online conference on contemporary curating", Planet IMPAKT, Utrecht
February 28 2022, Beeple: Everymonths, Season II, Episode 1⭢ ; ⭢
March 25 2022, “Auditing the Cerruti Collection. The case of Jacopo del Sellaio”, Lecture in the frame of the conference "Why are we still looking for Nazi-looted art in Italy?, The importance of provenance research and negotiated solutions", Ateneo Veneto, Venice
March 30 2022, “Digitainment dal museo tradizionale al museo digitale - and back again”, lecture, Schiattarella Associati, Rome
May 8 2022, "L’arte nell’epoca dell’intelligenza artificiale", ETHOS, Festival dell’etica pubblica, Auditorium Parco della Musca Ennio Morricone, Rome
June 29 2022, “L’esempio dell’Arte Povera”, lecture on the occasion of "Naturecultures. Arte e Natura dall’Arte Povera a oggi. Dalle Collezioni della Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT al Castello di Rivoli", OGR Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin
July 5 2022, Conversation in conference "Costruire il patrimonio culturale del domani – I musei italiani tra conservazione e innovatività: le radici del futuro", Stati Generali della Cultura, Gruppo 24 Ore, Museo del Risorgimento, Turin
July 13 2022, Beeple: Everymonths, Season II, Episode 2 ⭢ ; ⭢
September 15 2022, “Nuclei of future knowledge: climate change, clean nuclear energy, new imaginaries between art and science”, a conversation with Stefano Buono, in the frame of the event"Naturecultures. Arte e Natura dall’Arte Povera a oggi. Dalle Collezioni della Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT al Castello di Rivoli", OGR Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin
September 25 2022, “L’arte contemporanea al servizio della rigenerazione”, conversation with Otobong Nkanga. SLOW FOOD 2022, Turin
September 28 2022, Introduction to the Study Day: the international fortune of Arte Povera. The legacy of Germano Celant within Germano Celant. Cronistoria di un critico militante convention by Studio Celant, based on a proposal from the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca – “L’attività di Germano Celant in rapporto alla genesi e agli sviluppi dell’Arte povera a Torino”, by CRRI Research Center of the Castello di Rivoli in collaboration with Studio Celant
September 28 2022, "OPEN DOORS, Il Museo partecipativo oggi", Round table, Brescia Musei, Brescia
October 1 2022, "Artificial Art?", Conversation with Agnieszka Kurant, in the frame of "Who is the Machine? talks, panel and performances", MUNCH Triennale, Oslo
November 19 2022, Intervention at the presentation event of the volume curated by Italo Rota "Io sono museo", ADI Design Museum, Milan
November 21 2022, Beeple: Everymonths, Season II, Episode 3 ⭢
January 31 2023, Beeple: Everymonths, Season III, Episode 1 ⭢ ; ⭢ ; ⭢
April 13 2023, Introduction in dialogue with Giuliana Setari, COCUMINT-Consumption of Cultural Goods Seminar, online
May 5 2023, Conversation with Gabriele Romeo at the "First International Meeting of Studies on the State of Art Criticism: Dynamic Updates" organized by AICA (International Association of Art Critics | Italy), Rotonda del Talucchi, Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino, Turin
May 12 2023, Conversation with Wael Shawky and Andrea Viliani, with an introduction by Gabriel Zuchtriegel, on the occasion of the presentation of Shawky's I Am Hymns of the New Temples, Parco Archeologico, Pompei
June 18 2023, Conversation with Richard Bell on the occasion of the exhibition Embassy, Tate Modern, London, online
July 13 2023, “Essere riservati. L’immortalità attraverso l’immortalità della propria collezione. Dalla precisione alla perfezione”, Lecture in the frame of “L'Esperienza dell'Arte”, Collezione Cerruti, Rivoli
July 19 2023, Speaker within the programme "Millemiglia delle idee", MAUTO – Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile, Turin
August 31 2023, Beeple: Everymonths, Season III, Episode 2⭢
September 12 2023, “Il digitale nei musei: Che rapporto intercorre tra il museo e il digitale?”, Keynote lecture in the frame of the DRHA Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts Conference “Performing Cultural Heritage in the Digital Present”, Università di Torino, Turin
September 30 2023, Talk and guided tour on the occasion of the exhibition Fabio Mauri. Amore Mio, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
October 6 2023, “Museums Today: Castello di Rivoli a Case Study”, Lecture, Istanbul Modern Auditorium, in collaboration with Istituto italiano di cultura, Istanbul⭢
October 14 2023, “The museum of the future”, Teatrostudio Radio3 Scienza, La Festa di RAI Radio3, Teatro comunale, Bolzano
November 13 2023, “Prolegomena to a theory of Artistic freedom. How much and what depends on Artistic freedom”, Keynote lecture, Novo Nordisk Foundation - Copenhagen Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
January 25 2024, “On Artists in a Time of War”, Keynote lecture, CIMA Center for Italian Modern Art, New York
January 28 2024, “Vessels, Plants and Reparations: Otobong Nkanga’s Art of Healing”, Presentation of 2025 Nasher Prize Laureate, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
May 23 2024, "La libertà artistica e la liturgia ecclesiastica - è possibile conciliare rappresentazionee presentazione? Una questione dell’arte e del sacro" during the conference "AVVENTURE DELLO SPAZIO SACRO. Criticità e nuove sfide", Talk, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca and Pontificia Accademia dei Virtuosi al Pantheon, Rome
June 19 2024, "On the concept of artistic freedom: arte povera as a state of mind", Lecture, Aktsaal, HfBK Dresden, Dresden
October 9 2024, "Arte Povera: trecentomilionidianni. Conversation between Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Giuseppe Penone, and Gilberto Zorio", Conference, Pinault Collection, Paris
October 14 2024, Talk with Michelangelo Pistoletto, Galleria Continua, Paris
December 6 2024, "Emilio Prini. Portrait de Napoléon", Conference with Luca Lo Pinto, Pinault Collection, Paris
January 13 2025, Beeple Studios, Charleston
February 13 2025, "Trecento milioni di anni. In dialogo con Giuseppe Penone", Talk, Fondazione Ferrero, Alba
February 22 2025, "With thought-light-sounds waves mainly nocturnal, she carries. Notes on the resonant work of Bracha L. Ettinger", Keynote lecture in the frame of "Talks with BRACHA", K21, Dusseldorf
[upcoming] June 5 2025, "In conversation with Mario Garcia Torres", Lecture in the frame of Revisitations Discussion Series, Fridericianum, Kassel
[upcoming] June 7 2025, Lecture, documenta, Kassel
XLIX Esposizione internazionale d'arte, Venice (Venice Biennale)
Dena Foundation Art Award, Bruxelles
Art Pace, San Antonio,Texas
The 4th and the 9th Benesse Prize, Venice Biennale
DAAD Berlin
Asia Art Award Forum, Seoul
MAXXI Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea, Rome
Prix Marcel Duchamp, Paris
The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative
The Chinese Contemporary Art Awards, Beijing
The Pinchuk Future Generation Art Award, Kiev
The Absolut Art Award, Stockholm, (chair of jury)
The Umsicht – Regards – Sguardi
Swiss Award for Sustainable Design of the Living Environment
The jury for the European Central Bank Art on Site Competition, Frankfurt
OCAT – Pierre Huber Prize
Illy prize Present Future, Turin
Edvard Munch Art Award, Oslo
Korea Artist Prize 2016, Seoul
AAC Awards in China in Beijing
The New School, Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics, New York (chair of jury)
Hepworth Prize for Sculpture jury, Leeds/Wakefield
Artes Mundi 7, Cardiff
“Camera con vista” First Edition Prize, Regione Piemonte, Turin
Concorso Internazionale di Idee Unione Industriale, Turin
National Arts Award and Festival, The Future – Accademia Albertina Academy of Turin
Concorso di Idee “Il rondò dei talenti”, by Fondazione CRC, Cuneo
Visible Award, Cittadellarte–Fondazione Pistoletto and Fondazione Zegna in partnership, in collaboration with Lafayette Anticipations
Toronto Biennial of Art
Nasher Prize, Nasher Sculpture Prize, Dallas
Samdani Art Award, Dakkha
Dubai Culture and Bulgari jury member for Bulgari Contemporary Art Award, Dubai
Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2024 by the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Park Seo-Bo Art Prize of the 14th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
LG Guggenheim Award, New York
Monica D'Onofrio, "La storica dell'arte e curatrice Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev", per il ciclo di interviste "La vita che mi diedi", Radio3 Suite - Magazine, n. 42, online, 13 October 2024 ⭢
Jacob Fabricius, ed., "Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev", in Setting the Tone of the Exhibition - The Anatomy of Exhibition Openings, Distanz, Berlin, 2024 (book) pp. 15-37 ⭢
"Vom Aufbruch in die Peripherie", in KUNSTFORUM International, n.269, August - September, 2020, pp. 146-157
Halil Altındere, Süreyyya Evren, "Istanbul Biennals and Cherishing Life on the Planet. Interview with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev", in Halil Altındere, Süreyyya Evren, User's Manual 2.0, Contemporary Art in Turkey 1975-2015, Revolver publishing, Berlin, 2015, pp. 207-211