Duration
24.11.23, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Language
English
Admission
Free
Info
Doryun Chong (Deputy Director and Chief Curator, M+, Hong Kong), Bice Curiger (Director, Van Gogh Foundation, Arles), Elvira Dyangani Ose (Director, Macba, Barcelona) Isabel Lewis (Artist, Berlin), Jessica Morgan (Nathalie de Gunzburg Director, Dia Art Foundation, New York), Sir Nicholas Serota (Chair of Arts Council, England, former Director of Tate Galleries, London) will discuss the challenges and opportunities for international centres of contemporary art. Against the backdrop of current political and financial constraints and the needs and desires of a radically changing society, new forms of engagement, community building, transdisciplinary programming and approaches to the refurbishment of buildings will be debated.
The discussion will be moderated by Andrea Lissoni (Artistic Director Haus der Kunst München), guests in attendance. Free admission.
Participants
Doryun Chong
Doryun Chong was appointed the inaugural Chief Curator at M+, Hong Kong in 2013. Since 2016 he has been also Deputy Director, Curatorial. Over a decade, he has overseen all curatorial activities and programmes and has led the transformative growth of the M+ Collections. Chong curated and supervised more than twenty exhibitions prior to the museum’s opening in November 2021, including four editions of Hong Kong’s participation in the Venice biennale since 2015. He co-curated with Mika Yoshitake “Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now”, the most comprehensive retrospective of the celebrated Japanese artist to date, which opened to great critical acclaims and public receptions at M+ in November 2022 and toured to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 2021, becoming one of the most visited exhibitions in that museum’s history.
Prior to joining M+, Chong worked in various curatorial capacities at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, curating several landmark exhibitions. He has published and lectured widely and served on numerous award juries and public panels across Asia, North America, and Europe.
Bice Curiger
Bice Curiger is an art historian, curator and artistic director of the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles since 2013. She has also served as editor-in-chief of “Parkett,” the book series featuring contemporary artists published in Zurich and New York from 1984—2017. In 2011, Curiger was the Director of the 54th Venice Biennale, and from 1992—2013 she was a curator at the Kunsthaus Zürich. Between 2004 and 2014, Curiger served as Editorial Director for the magazine “Tate etc.,” the magazine of the Tate in London. Curiger is known as the author of numerous publications. Among them the monograph “Meret Oppenheim—Spuren durchstandener Freiheit/Defiance in the Face of Freedom”, 1982/1989 Zurich and Boston, or “Ausbruch & Rausch, Frauen, Kunst, Punk. 1975-1980,” Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich 2020, as well as the catalogue “Laura Owens & Vincent van Gogh,” Arles 2021. In addition, the working biography, “C is for Curator” about Bice Curiger, written by Dora Imhof, was published by König Books in 2022.
Elvira Dyangani Ose
Director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Prior to her appointment, she was Director and Chief Curator of The Showroom in London. Previously, Dyangani Ose was curator of the eighth edition of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, GIBCA, and the Lubumbashi Biennial at Democratic Republic of the Congo. She has served as member of The Thought Council at the Fondazione Prada, as Senior Curator at Creative Time in New York and was lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. She was Curator International Art at Tate Modern in London she took a leading role in developing Tate’s holdings of art from Africa and its Diaspora and working closely with the Africa Acquisitions Committee. Dyangani Ose has published and lectured on modern and contemporary African art and has contributed to art journals such as “Nka” and “Atlántica”. She is studied a Doctorate in History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University, New York; an MAS in Theory and History of Architecture from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona; and a BA in Art History from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Isabel Lewis
Trained in dance, philosophy, and literary criticism, artist Isabel Lewis was born 1981 in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. She creates works that resists classification, affirming pleasure, connection, and permeability. Lewis employs an expanded sense of the choreographic; she generates affective bodily experiences that address all of the senses in her inherently collaborative practice. Her terminology for many of her works is occasions: immersive social situations in which the dramaturgy of the moment is composed in real time. Lewis’ works have been presented internationally in biennials and solo exhibitions as well as in music, theatre, and dance festivals. She received special recognition for her work An Occasion hosted by Isabel Lewis, which was shown at the 2014 Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement at Geneva's Centre d'Art Contemporain and at the Frieze Art Fair London. Lewis is also a professor at the Fine Art Academy (HGB), Leipzig, leading the Class for Performative Arts since 2021.
Jessica Morgan
Jessica Morgan joined Dia Art Foundation as Director in January 2015 and was named Nathalie de Gunzburg Director in October 2017. At Dia, Morgan is responsible for strengthening and activating all parts of the multivalent programme, including its pioneering land art projects, site-specific commissions, and collections and programming across its constellation of sites. Since assuming directorship, she has led a series of initiatives reaffirming and reinvigorating the non-profit’s founding vision and principles. Since 2018, Morgan has led a multi-year project to upgrade and revitalize Dia’s programmatic spaces. Before, she was The Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art, at Tate Modern in London from 2010 to 2014, and was Curator at Tate from 2002 to 2010. In addition to her work on exhibitions, she was essential for the growth of Tate’s collection. Morgan was previously Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. She also curated the 2020—2022 Verbier Art Summits and served as the artistic director of the 10th Gwangju Biennale in 2014. Morgan is on numerous international advisory boards, including the Advisory Committee for the Collection, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain; the Selection Committee for the Artist Protection Fund, Institute of International Education, New York; and the Advisory Board for the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, Mumbai, India.
Sir Nicholas Serota
Nicholas Serota is Chair of Arts Council England and a member of the Board of the BBC. He was Director of Tate from 1988 to 2017. During this period Tate opened Tate St Ives (1993) and Tate Modern (2000 and extension 2016), redefining the Millbank building as Tate Britain (2000). Tate also broadened its field of interest to include twentieth-century photography, film and performance, as well as collecting art from Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The national role of the Gallery also became more significant with the creation of the Plus Tate network of 35 institutions across the UK and Northern Ireland. Between 1976 and 1988, he was Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery where he curated numerous exhibitions including Robert Ryman, Carl Andre, Gerhard Richter, Eva Hesse, and Max Beckmann: The Triptychs, Anselm Kiefer, Philip Guston, Georg Baselitz and Bruce Nauman. In recent years, he has curated or co-curated exhibitions of Donald Judd, Howard Hodgkin, Cy Twombly, Gerhard Richter, and Matisse: The Cut-Outs.
Andrea Lissoni
The discussion will be moderated by Andrea Lissoni, the Artistic Director of Haus der Kunst.