Corina Apostol

Corina Apostol received a Bachelor of Art major in Art History, History and minor in Visual Studies at the Duke University.[4] She obtained a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in Art History at Rutgers University.[5]

Apostol is a curator at the Tallinn Art Hall and guest lecturer at the Art Academy of Latvia. Since 2010, she is the cofounder of the activist publishing collective ArtLeaks and editor-in-chief of the ArtLeaks Gazette.[6] Between 2010 and 2017 she was the Norton Dodge Curatorial Fellow at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, researching and exhibiting The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art.[7] She contributed to the book Truth is Concrete: A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics (Sternberg Press, 2014).[8]

In 2016, she was selected as part of the Board of Directors of the Romanian National Cultural Fund.[9] She wrote the chapter "The Art of Making Community" in Area Studies in the Global Age: Community, Place, Identity (Cornell University Press, 2016), about Romanian artist Lia Perjovschi.[10] Between 2017 and 2019 she was the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Creative Time. In 2019, Apostol co-edited together with Nato Thompson the book Making Another World Possible: 10 Creative Time Summits, 10 Global Issues, 100 Art Projects, published by Routledge.[11] In 2018, she co-curated together with Elvira Dyangani-Ose the Creative Time Summit: "On Archipelagoes and Other Imaginaries" at the Arsht Center for Performing Arts and other locations across Miami, FL.

In 2020, she was selected as the curator for the Estonian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale.[12] The project, entitled "Orchidelirium: An Appetite for Abundance" was presented in the Dutch Rietveld Pavilion in the Giardini della Biennale, and showcased artworks by contemporary artists Kristina Norman, Eko Supriyanto, the botanical artist Emilie Rosalie Saal (1871-1954).[13][14]

Between 2019 and 2023 she was a curator and member of the steering committee of Beyond Matter an international, collaborative, practice-based research project that takes cultural heritage and culture in development to the verge of virtual reality, spearheaded by the ZKM | Karlsruhe. In this framework, she co-edited together with Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás the book Immerse! (2023), published by Hatje Canz.

In 2016, Apostol was longlisted for the Kandinsky Prize in the category “Scholarly work. Contemporary art history and theory.”,[15] and in 2020 she was on the longlist of the Sergey Kuryokhin Award for "Best Curatorial Project".[16] In 2023, she won the apexart curatorial open call in NYC together with Dr. Tashima Thomas, with the exhibition "Flora Fantastic: Eco-critical Contemporary Botanical Art."