++++ Frankfurt/Main has been appointed Manifesta 4 host city in 2002 and the team of curators for Manifesta 4 has started work
Iara Boubnova, Sofia
Nuria Enguita Mayo, Barcelona
Stéphanie Moisdon Trembley, Paris

The International Foundation Manifesta appointed Frankfurt/Main as Manifesta 4 host city for the next biennial. Frankfurt has been selected to host Manifesta 4 because of its excellent cultural infrastructure, the position of the city in the German context and the pronounced willingness of a young generation of individuals and leading institutions to support Manifesta.
After selecting Frankfurt as host city, the local organization, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, was appointed as producer of the event, with Dieter Buroch as General Manager, and the Austrian-born project organizer, Martin Fritz, was appointed General Co-ordinator.
After having created the basic structure for the development of the next Manifesta, the selection procedure for the team of curators for Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt/Main in 2002 was started. From a preliminary selection of seven curators, all of whom had been interviewed in Frankfurt in October 2000, the final selection settled on nominating Iara Boubnova, Sofia, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Barcelona and Stéphanie Moisdon Trembley, Paris. They make up the team of curators for the new program of this European Biennial of Contemporary Art.

Selection Procedure
In autumn of last year, the Board of the International Foundation Manifesta short-listed a number of young, internationally active curators and invited them to interviews in Frankfurt. The Board then made a preliminary selection from this initial short list and after being interviewed by the newly appointed General Co-ordinator of Manifesta, Martin Fritz, the appointment of Iara Boubnova, from the ICA in Sofia, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Chief Curator at the Antoni Tàpies Foundation in Barcelona and Stéphanie Moisdon Trembley, a freelance curator from Paris was confirmed by the official invitation of the International Foundation Manifesta.
All three curators accepted the Board’s invitation to curate Manifesta 4 and immediately set to work on a number of preliminary tasks. They met for the first time as a team in Frankfurt on 8 and 9 March 2001, where their main focus was on establishing the conceptual and procedural bases for their work.
A second meeting in Frankfurt at the end of March/beginning of April will be followed up by a week’s internal discussions among members of the team in Paris. The team will also take immediate steps to establish contact with research partners throughout Europe.
The curators share a common interest in incorporating urban structures into their work and in concentrating on new forms of presentation, especially with regard to communicating with viewers/visitors. Their individual projects to date have been characterized by a concentration on specific themes and on developing innovative forms of communication.
All three curators have had considerable experience in their own areas of expertise and share a broadly similar conceptual approach to issues of curatorship, although each of them has also been formed by their individual backgrounds. Their appointment provides an element of continuity in Manifesta’s efforts to reinforce and develop its role as a forum for critical debate and progressive artistic and cultural practice.

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