Archive 2019-20
The Producers II: New Positions on Curating 10
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
- Start: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:15:00 GMT
- End: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 18:30:00 GMT
Katerina Gregos is a curator, lecturer and writer based in Brussels. Currently she is curator of the Munich-based Schwarz Foundation and curator of the Croatian Pavilion for the next Venice Biennial. Recently she was chief curator of the 1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA1): Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More (2018). Gregos has curated numerous large-scale exhibitions and biennials including, The State is Not a Work of Art, Tallinn Art Hall, the Art Hall Gallery and the City Gallery (2018); A World Not Ours, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, (2017); Personne et les autres, the Belgian Pavilion, 56th Venice
Biennale; Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will, the 5th Thessaloniki Biennial (2015); The Politics of Play for the Göteborg Biennial (2013). In 2012 she co-curated Manifesta 9 and in 2011 she curated Speech Matters, the Danish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennial. Her exhibition Anatomy of Political Melancholy, for the Schwarz Foundation was recently on view at the Athens Conservatoire.
Mirjam Varadinis is art historian and curator for contemporary art at Kunsthaus Zürich. She has organized various exhibitions, including the group shows “Action!” (2017) and “Shifting Identities” (2008) as well as solo exhibitions with Abraham Cruzvillegas, Akram Zaatari, Javier Téllez, Haris Epaminonda, Rosa Barba, Roman Ondák, Adrian Paci, Mircea Cantor, Tino Sehgal, Erik van Lieshout, Nedko Solakov, Urs Fischer and David Shrigley a.o. She has published numerous catalogues and artist books and contributes to international art magazines. Mirjam Varadinis was one of Manifesta12’s creative mediators in Palermo. In 2013 she had curated “0 Performance – The Fragile Beauty of Crisis”, a special project for the 5thMoscow Biennial of Contemporary Art. In 2012, she co-curated “TRACK” (together with Philippe Van Cauteren), a large-scale, city-wide international group exhibition in the tradition of “Chambres d’amis” in Ghent, Belgium. In 2006, Mirjam Varadinis was also a curator of “Printemps de Septembre”, an annual festival of contemporary arts in Toulouse, France.