Jenny Schlenzka

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Jenny Schlenzka

Jenny Schlenzka was appointed Performance Space New York’s Executive Artistic Director in 2017 and is the organization’s first female director. Prior to joining Performance Space, Schlenzka was the Associate Curator at MoMA PS1 in New York, where she established Sunday Sessions, an interdisciplinary, weekly live program. Sunday Sessions has featured hundreds of artists including Honey Dijon, Mette Ingvartsen, Ann Liv Young, Sondra Perry, Terre Thaemlitz, Justin Vivian Bond, and Wu-Tang Clan, as well as new commissions by Hannah Black, Trajal Harrell, Ragnar Kjartansson, Mårten Spångberg, Anne Imhof, Matthew Lutz Kinoy and Tobias Madison. In addition to her event program, Schlenzka developed an interest in performance within the exhibition format, organizing the New York presentation of Retrospective by Xavier Le Roy (2014) and Anne Imhof: DEAL (2015). Between 2008 and 2012, Schlenzka was the Assistant Curator for Performance in the Department of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art. She holds an MA in Cultural Studies from Humboldt University, Berlin. She is a recipient of the Yoko Ono Courage Award.