Curators discuss global art practices

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Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Jul 26 2013 | 2:40 PM IST
Collaborations between curators, public and private organisations as well as institutional frameworks that coexist in the art world are set to be discussed at the third edition of the Experimenter Curators' Hub (ECH), which begins here today.
A total of 10 curators are set to describe their own practice and its development with specific focus on exhibitions that have been curated in the last three years.
"Contemporary practice at the Experimenter mirrors the diverse ideas and values of today's society. It has a larger objective -to bring newer responses to visual art practice and encourage public dialogue," gallery owners Prateek and Priyanka Raja said in a statement.
"Organizing the hub is a responsibility we feel we owe to the art world to co-develop its eco-system," they said.
The line up for the hub at the Experimenter art gallery includes Alessandra Vintecelli who has developed and curated solo exhibitions with artists such as Steve McQueen, Sam Taylor-Wood, Yoko Ono, Bani Abidi, amongst others. He worked as co-curator of the Turner Prize in 2011 when BALTIC, Gateshead hosted the Turner Prize.
Che Kyongfa is a curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, whose "Omnilogue: Journey to the West" in the year 2012 was hosted by Lalit Kala Akademi in New Delhi.
Daniel Muzyczuk has been co-curator of the Polish Pavillion for the 55th Venice Biennale.
Participants from India include Girish Shahane is Director - Art of the Skoda Prize for Indian Contemporary Art, Nancy Adajania cultural theorist and Sandhini Poddar a art historian and an adjunct curator at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum.
Natasha Ginwala, who was part of the artistic team of the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art and Pooja Sood, a founding member and Director of Khoj International Artists Association are independant curators.
Kathrin Rhomberg, Oliver Kielmayer are also included in the line up.
On July 27, the final day of the two day event Indian and international curators and the visual arts community, critics, writers, thinkers, artists, collectors, theorists and people interested in contemporary practice are set to take part in a open session discussion.
The Experimenter's Curators' Hub began in the year 2011 and for this year's is being presented in association with Pro Helvetia -The Swiss Arts Council, and is supported by the Japan Foundation, the British Council, the Polish Institute, and the Goethe Institut.
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First Published: Jul 26 2013 | 2:40 PM IST

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