Michael Kurtz

Michael Kurtz is an art critic and curator based in London.

He read History of Art at the University of Oxford, where he won the Gibbs Prize in 2019. Since then, he has held curatorial positions at Waddesdon Manor and Four Corners Gallery as well as completing a Master’s degree in the History of Photography at Birkbeck, University of London, funded by the Wallace Studentship.

He writes regularly for Art Monthly and e-flux. He won the International Award for Art Criticism in 2023 and is currently a curator of Manifesta 16 Ruhr.