Curiger has also served as the Editorial Director of Tate's art magazine Tate Etc. Curiger has also authored numerous books on contemporary art, including: Looks et tenebrae (1983) Meret Oppenheim: Defiance in the Face of Freedom (1990) Maurizio Cattelan, Feuerproben / Acid Tests (2008) Rebecca Warren: Every Aspect of Bitch Magic (2012) Double Take: Collective Memory and Recent Art (1992) Signs and Wonder: Niko Pirosmani and Contemporary Art (1995) Meret Oppenheim (1996), Birth of the Cool: American Painting from Georgia O'Keeffe to Christopher Wool (1997) Hypermental - Rampant Reality, 1950-2000: from Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons (2000) Peter Fischli and David Weiss: Flowers and Questions (2007) Friedrich Kuhn (1926-1972): The Painter as Outlaw (2008) ILLUMInazioni (Biennale di Venezia 2011) Riotous Baroque: from Cattelan to Zurbarán (2013) Exhibitions Since 1993 Curiger has been a curator at the Kunsthaus Zürich, and has also curated and co-curated numerous contemporary art exhibitions, including: Meret Oppenheim (1991), Centre Cultural Suisse Sigmar Polke (1991), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Double Take: Collective Memory & Current Art (1992), Hayward Gallery Peter Fischli&David Weiss (2007), Tate Modern co-curated with Vicente Todolí Katharina Fritsch (2009), Kunsthaus Zurich Recognition From 1984 to 1994 Curiger was a member of Switzerland's National Council for the Arts. In 2010 Curiger was listed Number 6 on ArtReview'''s annual Power 100 list. In 2014 Curiger was named by Artnet as one of the twenty-six most powerful European women in the Art World. In 2022, Franz und Walther König published the book C is for Curator: Bice Curiger, A Life in Art'' by Dora Imhof that recaps Curiger's career. Awards and honours Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (France) 2007 – Heinrich Wölfflin Medal of the City of Zurich 2009 – SI Award of the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York 2012 – Culture Prize from the Canton of Zurich 2012 – Swiss Grand Award for Art / Prix Meret Oppenheim of the Federal Office of Culture. References 1948 births Swiss art critics Swiss women art critics Swiss art curators Living people Swiss women editors Swiss women curators Directors of museums in France Women museum directors Venice Biennale artistic directors