Artspace is pleased to announce the arrival in New Zealand of Artspace director Caterina Riva. She joins us after three years as the co-director and curator of FormContent, an innovative not for profit space she co-founded in East London.

Artspace is pleased to announce the arrival in New Zealand of Artspace director Caterina Riva. She joins us after three years as the co-director and curator of FormContent, an innovative not for profit space she co-founded in East London.

“I am extremely excited by this new professional and personal challenge and very humbled by my appointment. I have started work at ARTSPACE this week where I will be presenting a lively programme responsive to the local community as well as projected towards international visibility and recognition.”

Caterina Riva (b. 1980, Varese, Italy) is a curator who has been based in London since 2006. She studied in Italy and the UK where she received her MFA in curating at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Over the past three years at FormContent, her artistic programme has focused on exploring curatorial and artistic strategies, combining exhibition making, independent publishing and the production of events and performances, to critical acclaim.

Riva has worked on a number of notable exhibitions, including The young people visiting our ruins see nothing but a style at GAM, Turin, Italy (2009), The Responsive Subject at MuZee, Ostend, Belgium, (2010), and The Filmic Conventions at FormContent, London (2010). Previously she was the coordinator of the Advanced Course in Visual Arts for Fondazione Ratti in Como, Italy, from 2004 to 2008 working alongside young international artists and distinguished visiting professors such as Alfredo Jaar, Marjetica Potrc, Joan Jonas and Yona Friedman.

She was an international delegate for the Edinburgh International Art Festival (2009), participated to the 6th Berlin Biennale’s curatorial workshop (2010), and was curator in residence at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia (2010). Riva has contributed as a writer to a number of artists books and publications, and to magazines such as Flash Art (IT), Kunstbulletin (CH), Un Magazine (AUS), Catalogue (FRA), Mousse (IT) and Kaleidoscope (IT).