Catherine Hug

Cathérine Hug (*1976) studied Computer Science, Media Science and Art History at the University of Zurich. From 2000 until 2007 she was curatorial assistant at the Kunsthaus Zurich, where she worked closely with Bice Curiger and Tobia Bezzola. From 2005 until 2008 she was Assistant Art Unlimited at the Art Basel. As free-lance curator she organized among others Unloaded (Oberschan 2002-03) with Giovanni Carmine; In The Alps with Tobia Bezzola (Kunsthaus Zurich, 2006); and Carola Giedion-Welcker and Modernism (Kunsthaus Zurich, 2007). Since 2008 she is curator at the KUNSTHALLE Wien, where she curated among others Thomas Ruff: Surfaces, Depths (2009), 1989. End of History or Beginning of the Future? Comments on a Paradigm Shift (2009-10) with Gerald Matt, Street And Studio. From Basquiat to Séripop (2010) with Thomas Mießgang, and Space. About A Dream (2011). In 2011 with Rita Vitorelli she organized for the 2nd time the ZINE*FAIR, the international Fanzines, Independent Publishers’ and Small Press Fair in Vienna. Together with the author Clemens Berger and the artist Andreas Duscha she organizes the talk series Kleinodien – Anomalous Talks in Vienna. As freelance critic she regularly writes for Bad Day Magazine (Toronto).

Since 2013 Cathérine Hug is a curator at the Kunsthaus Zurich where she has curated amongst others the exhibition Europe. The Future of History (2015) together with Robert Manasseh and the exhibition Dadaglobe Reconstructed (2016) together with Adrian Sudhalter.

Links:

http://www.kunsthaus.ch/de/information/ueber-uns/funktionsbereiche/kuratoren/
www.kleinodien.org