Jens Hoffmann, a German citizen, and Andrea Bellini, an Italian, have been appointed as Co-Directors of Art at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in the Castello di Rivoli near Turin. Jens Hoffmann, who was born in Costa Rica in 1972 and grew up in Germany, will leave the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco where he was Director and Chief Curator for the past two years. Prior to that Hoffmann had headed the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London.
Andrea Bellini, born in Latina near Rome in 1971, most recently organised the Turin annual exhibition of contemporary arts, ?Artissima?. The former New York correspondent for the Italian art magazine, ?Flash Art?, also made a name for himself as a curator in advisory capacity at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, a branch of the Museum of Modern Art in the New York suburb of Queens.
The Castello di Rivoli, founded in 1984 under the direction of Rudi Fuchs, is regarded as a leading institution for contemporary art in Italy. Until recently, it was headed in commission by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the Director of Documenta 13, which will take place in Kassel in the summer of 2012.
(Source: Süddeutsche Zeitung)
