Fri, Feb 21, 2020 9:30 am–12 pm Event closed: seating at capacity
Curator and art historian Elena Filipovic discusses the curatorial methodologies used to organize retrospectives for Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Anne Teresa De Keersmaker, and Zhana Ivanova.
The ProSeminar is an invitation to leading curators, designers, and researchers in contemporary art and design to host a conversation about the artworks, exhibitions and ideas that inform their practice. The intimate format with 20 participants provides an opportunity for students, faculty and invited participants to engage in focused dialogue with guests.
A selection of short readings accompany each session. Readings are assigned by seminar leaders. Participants are provided links below and expected to read texts in advance of meetings.
Filipovic, Elena, “Introduction (When Exhibitions Become Form: On the History of the Artist as Curator).” In The Artist as Curator: An Anthology, edited by Elena Filipovic. Milan: Mousse Publishing, Berlin: Koenig Books, 2017.→
Filipovic, Elena, “The Global White Cube.” In The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe, edited by Barbara Vanderlinden and Elena Filipovic. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.→
Filipovic, Elena, “What Is an Exhibition?” In Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating, edited by Jens Hoffmann. Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2013.→
Presented by CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice in partnership with the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. This ProSeminar is made possible thanks to generous support from Mary Mocas and Marv Tseu.
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Elena Filipovic is director and curator of Kunsthalle Basel. She previously served as senior curator at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels from 2009—2014 and in 2008 co-curated When Things Cast No Shadow, the 5th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, with Adam Szymczyk. She has curated over fifty solo and group exhibitions with emerging and established artists alike. She has edited a number of anthologies on exhibition histories, including The Artist as Curator: An Anthology (Mousse Publications, 2017), and The Biennial Reader: Anthology on Large-Scale Perennial Exhibitions of Contemporary Art (Hatje Cantz, 2010), co-edited with Marieke van Hal and Solveig Øvstebø. She is author of David Hammons, Bliz-aard Ball Sale (Afterall Books, 2017) and The Apparently Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2016).
