Irit Rogoff is a writer, theorist, teacher and curator. Her research interests include visual culture; contemporary art and critical theory;[1]postcolonialism, geoculture, and geographies,[2] cultures of education[3] and gender. Rogoff obtained her PhD degree from the Courtald Institute of Art in 1987.[4]
</ref> In 2002, she founded the trans-disciplinary department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London[5] where she is a professor of Visual Cultures, heading the PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge program.[6]
Curating
Between 2005 and 2006 Rogoff was part of the curatorial team of the A.C.A.D.E.M.Y project which consisted of a series of exhibitions, projects and events at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.[7] Rogoff curated several extensive exhibitions of the artist Kutlug Ataman (Antwerp Muhka, Herzelya museum of Contemporary Art 2007) under the title of 'Deregulation with the work of Kutlug Ataman"
Rogoff has written on German art (The Divided Heritage, Cambridge University Press, 1987),on Museum Culture (Museum Culture - Histories, Theories, Spectacles,Minnesota University Press , 1994) on Geography, Cartography and mobility (Terra Infirma (Routledge 2001) on the Educational Turn in Curating (A.C.A.D.E.M.Y 2006). She edited a special issue of e-flux Journal in 2011 on 'Education Actualised". She has published over 60 essays and articles on contemporary art, theory and knowledge production.
Visual Cultures as Seriousness (2013) (co-written with Gavin Butt), Sternberg Press [10]
Terra Infirma: Geography's Visual Culture (2000).[11]
A.C.A.D.E.M.Y., co-eds. Angelika Nollert and Irit Rogoff, Revolver (2006) [12]
Museum Culture – Histories, Discourses, Spectacles (with Daniel Sherman) Minnesota 1994, Routledge 1998.[13]
Rogoff has contributed to various periodicals such as Art Journal,[14]e-flux,[15] and Third Text.[16] She was a guest-editor for the 2010 special issue of e-flux journal no. 14 entitled Education Actualised
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