GRAZER KUNSTVEREIN APPOINTS NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
The Irish curator Kate Strain has been appointed the new artistic director at the Grazer Kunstverein in Graz, Austria, and will assume her new position on September 1. Born in Dublin in 1983, Strain has worked for the past decade as an independent curator and organized shows for Project Arts Centre in Dublin and Cow House Studios, an art space in Wexford, Ireland. She is part of The Centre For Dying On Stage, a research and commissioning platform for art that examines death’s relationship to the stage, and recently cofounded the first “Department of Ultimology” at Trinity College Dublin for the study of the dead and dying, in collaboration with artist Fiona Hallinan.
Strain was a previously a participant in the 2015 Young Curators Residency Program at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin and the de Appel Curatorial Program in Amsterdam from 2013-14.
The previous director of the Kunstverein in Graz, Krist Gruijthuijsen, was recently appointed as the new director and chief curator of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.
