INTERNATIONAL CURATORIAL PRACTICES

Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan

invites you to

INTERNATIONAL CURATORIAL PRACTICES
Panel Discussion

Friday, July 25, 6.00 pm
Siddhartha Hall
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan


By examining 'International Curatorial Practices', young curators from India and Cuba with working experiences abroad (in Germany and other countries) will discuss the challenges of modern curatorial practices, what provokes them as curators in an established art environment and how they determine their role and place in contemporary art and times. This will be examined through the exchange of information and case studies related to their projects. The case studies lead to larger questions of the political, cultural and historical milieu within which they work, and the wider national and international contexts. The discussion will be introduced with a lecture on Contemporary Art in Cuba by Yuneikys Villalonga, young curator and critic from Cuba.

Geeta Kapur (moderator) is an independent critic and curator. Her books include Contemporary Indian Artists (Delhi, 1978), and When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India (Delhi, 2000), to be followed by Iconographies for the Present (Delhi, 2009). Her curatorial work includes the co-curated, 'Bombay/ Mumbai' for 'Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis' at the Tate Modern, 2001. A founder-editor of Journal of Arts & Ideas, she is advisory editor to Third Text and Marg. She has lectured world-wide, and held Research Fellowships in India and abroad. She lives in Delhi.

Participants
Yuneikys Villalonga is an independent artist and curator based in Havana who divides her time between Havana and Bristol, UK. Villalonga served as curator at the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba from 2000-2003. She won the National Prize of Curatorship UNEAC 2004 for Së Bashku - Juntos - Tillsammans, a travelling exhibition presented in the Tirana Biennial in Stockholm and the Havana Biennial.

Vidya Shivadas is Masters in Art Criticism from Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Vadodara and works as a curator at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. She is actively involved in the setting of the not-for-profit Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art benefiting both emerging and established artists, art historians, curators, art critics, and other. She also received a fellowship from Goethe-Institut and Education Department of Documenta 12 to participate, with five other international curators, in the educational programme of Documenta 12. Vidya has just finished curating an exhibition Fluid Structures: Gender and Abstraction (1973 - 2008)

Deeksha Nath is a freelance critic and curator. She is Desk Editor, Art AsiaPacific, contributes to Art India and has published widely. Her upcoming projects include Still Moving Image (inaugural exhibition of Devi Art Foundation, Aug-Sept 2008) and Best of Discovery (Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Sept 2008). She has worked at the Tate Modern, London, the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. Deeksha is a Charles Wallace scholar and has trained at the M.S. University, Vadodara; City University, London and Goldsmiths College, London. The forthcoming anthologies 'Art and Visual Culture in India (1878 - 2008)', to be published by Marg and 'Young Indians' published by Bodhi Pvt. Ltd. (2008) contain contributions by her.

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