Germano Celant was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1940. He is the Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and contributing editor of Artforum and Interview, in New York. He is also the art columnist for the Italian weekly magazine L'Espresso, Rome, as well as the Italian design magazine Interni, Milan.
Internationally acknowledged for his theories on Arte Povera, he has been directing his efforts as an historian of contemporary art towards a fusion of languages and the historical and environmental contextualization of the Arts.