Nicola L.: Exhibition talk
Flavia Frigeri, Ruba Katrib and Oliver Lanzenberg
1 June 2022 – 30 April 2026
To coincide with the opening of Nicola L.’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, Flavia Frigeri (curator, National Portrait Gallery), Ruba Katrib (curator, MoMA PS1), Oliver Lanzenberg (cinematographer and Nicola L.’s grandson) and Harry Thorne (director, Alison Jacques) discuss the late artist’s life, work and legacy.
Dr Flavia Frigeri is an art historian, lecturer and ‘Chanel Curator for the Collection’ at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Previously, she was Curator of International Art at Tate Modern in London, where she co-curated ‘The World Goes Pop’ (2015), and was responsible for ‘Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs’ (2014), ‘Paul Klee: Making Visible’ (2013) and ‘Ruins in Reverse’ (2013). Frigeri is the author of Pop Art and Women Artists, both in the Thames & Hudson ‘Art Essentials’ series, and the co-editor of a volume of collected essays, New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era: Multiple Modernisms (Routledge, 2021).
Ruba Katrib is Curator at MoMA PS1 in New York, where she has curated such recent exhibitions as ‘Greater New York’ (2021), ‘Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life’ (2021) and a retrospective of Simone Fattal (2019), as well as the solo shows of Edgar Heap of Birds (2019), Karrabing Collective (2019) and Julia Phillips (2018), amongst others. From 2012–2018, Katrib was Curator at SculptureCenter in New York, where she curated over twenty solo and group exhibitions, including solo shows of Kelly Akashi, Sam Anderson, Charlotte Prodger and Nicola L. (all 2017). Katrib co-curated SITE Santa Fe biennial in 2018; was the Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami from 2007–2012; and has also held positions at the Renaissance Society and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, where she currently serves on the Graduate Committee.
Oliver Lanzenberg is a cinematographer based in New York. Lanzenberg has worked on numerous narrative short films, commercials and music videos, working alongside such artists and directors as Hao Zeng, Micah Bickam, Sean Nalaboff, Olivia Erlanger and Andrew Scrivani. Lanzenberg is the grandson of Nicola L. and undertakes research on behalf of the Nicola L. Collection and Archive.