Michelle Cotton
Artistic Director, Kunsthalle Wien (Austria)
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Michelle Cotton is the Artistic Director of Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna. She was previously the Head of Artistic Programmes and Content at Mudam, Luxembourg (2019–2024); Director of Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2015–2019); Senior Curator at Firstsite, Colchester (2010–2015); and recipient of the sixth Curatorial Bursary at Cubitt, London, where she directed the program from 2009 to 2010. Her publications include Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991 (2024), Peter Halley: Conduits; Paintings from the 1980s (2023), Post-Capital: A Reader (2021), The Policeman’s Beard Is Half Constructed: Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2017), Xerography (2013), Nigel Henderson & Eduardo Paolozzi: Hammer Prints Ltd 1954–75 (2012), and Design Research Unit 1942–72 (2011).