Giampaolo
Bianconi

Giampaolo Bianconi is Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, where makes acquisitions, organizes displays of work from the permanent collection, and curates exhibitions. He was previously Curator at Museum Brandhorst, Munich, where he organized exhibitions including Site Visit (2022), a new display of the permanent collection, and launched the Museum Brandhorst Flag Commission. From 2014 to 2020, he worked at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where he was a curator for the inaugural reinstallation of MoMA's collection following its 2019 expansion. He acquired numerous works for the museum's collection and organized exhibitions, performances, and events including Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age 1959-1989 (2017) and Cinthia Marcelle (MoMA PS1, 2017). At The Drawing Center, New York, he was invited to organize the exhibition As If: Alternative Histories from Then to Now (2019). His writing appears in catalogues including Dara Birnbaum: Reaction (Dancing Foxes Press, New York, 2022), Petra Cortright (Skira, Milan, 2020), Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates (The Shed, New York, 2019), and Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2018); as well as in the publications Artforum, Frieze, and Rhizome.