Iwona Blazwick is the director of Whitechapel Gallery in London. She is also a critic, lecturer, and broadcaster. She has published widely on contemporary art and arts institutions; she has written extensively on sculpture in particular, including essays on Fischli and Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Isa Genzken, Roni Horn, Ilya Kabakov, Eva Rothschild, and Lawrence Weiner.

The title of her CCA lecture will be "Just what is it that makes today's institutions so different, so appealing?"

Blazwick is series editor of Documents of Contemporary Art, published by Whitechapel/MIT Press. She has been on numerous juries, including the Turner, Vincent, MaxMara, and Clark prizes; the Wolfgang Hahn Award; and the Venice Biennale Golden Lion. She is an advisor to the UK Government Art Collection and a member of the international council of the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio.

From 1997 until 2001 Blazwick was curator and head of exhibitions and displays at Tate Modern, London. She worked as an independent curator from 1993 until 1997, conceiving major international surveys in Europe and Japan. During this period she was also commissioning editor for Phaidon Press. From 1986 until 1993 she was director of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

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