Francesca Gavin | Writer, curator, and Artistic Director of viennacontemporary
Francesca Gavin is mentor of Ida Kammerloch
Francesca Gavin is the Artistic Director of viennacontemporary and Editor in Chief of EPOCH Review. Gavin has written ten books on art and visual culture such as “Watch This Space” and “100 New Artists”. She has curated exhibitions institutions and galleries including Fundação de Serralves, Somerset House, Palais de Tokyo, MU, Site Sheffield and co-curated the Historical Exhibition alongside Christian Jankowski at Manifesta11 in Zurich. Gavin is a contributing editor at Twin and Beauty Papers, and has written for publications including the Financial Times HTSI, Cura, Artnet, Marie Claire, AnOther, Dazed, and Frieze. She has a monthly radio show Rough Version on NTS Radio on art and music which has been running for over 8 years.
Selected Books: “Rough Version” (At Last Books), “The Art of Mushrooms” (Fundação de Serralves), “The Art of Protest” (co-editor, Gestalten), “The Art of Collage 3” (co-editor, Gestalten), “Watch This Space” (Pentagram), “The Book of Hearts” (Laurence King), “100 New Artists” (Laurence King), “Creative Space” (Laurence King), “Hell Bound: New Gothic Art” (Laurence King).
Selected Exhibitions: The Art of Mushrooms, Fundação de Serralves; Mushrooms: The Art Design and Future of Fungi, Somerset House; E-Vapor-8, Site Sheffield and 319 Scholes; The Dark Cube, Palais de Tokyo; The New Psychedelica, MU; Call Me, Galerie PCP; Sam Jablon, French Riviera 1988; Have a Butcher's, Ballon Rouge; Form and Volume, CF Hill; Absent Bodies, OSL Contemporary.