The Seminar leader 2021Ruth Noack (1964) is Executive Director and Curator of The Corner at Whitman-Walker in Washington, D.C. Art historian, writer, passionate teacher, and mother of two children, Noack curated documenta 12 with Roger M.Buergel (2007). Recent exhibitions include The Mental Body (2021), Stay Alive to Life. Resilience in Times of Covid (2021), See You There. Making History at Whitman-Walker (2020), When We First Arrived..., on the testimonies of children detained at the US-Mexico border with DYKWTCA (2020) and the exhibition series Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life (2018-20). She has authored a monograph on Sanja Iveković, edited Agency, Ambivalence, Analysis. Approaching the Museum with Migration in Mind (2013), published numerous essays on feminist topics or contemporary art, and lectured internationally. |