Kari Rittenbach

Kari Rittenbach is a critic and curator based in New York. Her writing has appeared in Afterall, Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, Downtown Critic, Paper Monument, May Revue, Mousse, Texte zur Kunst, and numerous artist books and museum catalogues. She has organized exhibitions, events, and screenings for the Chisenhale Gallery and the ICA, London; the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Galerie Emanuel Layr and FC Gloria, Vienna; Pacific NW Film Center and Yale Union, Portland; Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Jenny's and Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles; Friends Indeed Gallery, San Francisco; the Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey; and the Museum of Modern Art, The Kitchen, Artists Space, Sculpture Center, Ortuzar Projects and Svetlana Gallery in New York City. She is an Assistant Curator at MoMA PS1, where she has organized the exhibitions Reynaldo Rivera: Fistful of Love / También la belleza (with Lauren Mackler, 2024) and Onyeka Igwe: A Repertoire of Protest (No Dance, No Palaver) (2023), as well as commissions by Stewart Uoo, Raque Ford, Alex Tatarsky, and Poncili Creación. At PS1, she curates the music series Warm Up and worked on the mid-career survey Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE (2023). She is a visiting critic at the Yale School of Art.