Episode 271

Photo:John Kim

Ep.271 Ruba Katrib is Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at MoMA PS1 in New York, where she steers the museum’s program and is a member of the leadership team. At PS1 she has curated exhibitions such as The Gatherers (2025), Ayoung Kim: Delivery Dancers Codex (2025), Sohrab Hura: Mother (2024), Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE (with Yasmil Raymond, 2023), Jumana Manna: Break, Take, Erase, Tally (2022), Frieda Toranzo Jaeger: Autonomous Drive (2022), Greater New York (2021), Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life (2021), Simone Fattal’s retrospective in 2019, and solo shows by Edgar Heap of Birds (2019), Karrabing Collective (2019), Fernando Palma Rodríguez, and Julia Phillips (2018). From 2012–2018 she was the Curator at SculptureCenter in New York, where she organized over twenty exhibitions including 74 million million million tons (2018, co-organized with artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan) and solo shows by Carissa Rodriguez, Kelly Akashi, Sam Anderson, Teresa Burga, Nicola L., Charlotte Prodger, Rochelle Goldberg, Aki Sasamoto, Cosima von Bonin, Anthea Hamilton, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Magali Reus, Gabriel Sierra, Erika Verzutti, and David Douard. In 2018, Katrib co-curated SITE Santa Fe’s biennial, Casa Tomada, along with José Luis Blondet and Candice Hopkins. She is an advisory board member of CCA Berlin and a board member of Topical Cream, and regularly writes for periodicals and museum catalogues.

Ruba Katrib https://www.rubakatrib.com/

MoMA https://www.moma.org/magazine/authors/92

MoMA PS1 https://www.momaps1.org/en/events/663-ayoung-kim-in-conversation-with-dawn-chan-and-ruba-katrib

MoMA Greater New York Artists https://www.momaps1.org/en/programs/754-greater-new-york-artist-talks

Venice Biennale Qatar Pavilion Announcement

Art Basel Unlimited Announcement

Unlimited May 26, 2026 interview https://www.artbasel.com/stories/art-basel-2026-unlimited-ruba-katrib-moma-ps1-curator

Biennial Foundation https://biennialfoundation.org/2026/04/national-pavilion-of-qatar-at-the-61st-venice-biennale-presents-untitled-2026-a-gathering-of-remarkable-people/

Qatar Museums https://qm.org.qa/en/calendar/untitled-2026/Art Newspaper https://www.artnewspaper.fr/2025/09/02/ruba-katrib-nommee-commissaire-du-secteur-unlimited-dart-basel

Document Journal https://www.documentjournal.com/2025/10/the-curators-shaping-the-future-of-archives-ruba-katrib/

Le Quotidien De l’Art https://www.lequotidiendelart.com/articles/27830-ruba-katrib-commissaire-d-unlimited-%C3%A0-art-basel-2026.html

Anderson Ranch https://www.andersonranch.org/people/ruba-katrib/