Curating
SAM KEOGH: THE UNICORN CARTOONS
Exhibition tour 2027 - 2028 Sam Keogh: The Unicorn Cartoons will feature seven large-scale sculptural collages, each paired with a performance by the artist. These works take the famous 'Unicorn tapestries' as a starting point to deploy a critical analysis of the dynamics of gender, race, and class both in the pre-modern tapestries and in contemporary mass-media genre fantasy. [read more] PUBLICATION
Lagos Biennial 2024: REFUGE
Tafawa Balewa Square 3.2.2024 - 10.2.2024 The Lagos Biennial brings together artists who explore how to create an operative notion of refuge that can offer alternate paths towards constructing renewable communities and work towards ecological justice in this historical moment of systemic crisis. [read more] PROGRAMME
Et si Carthage?
Selma Feriani Gallery, La Goulette 25.1.2024 - 24.3.2024 Taking its title from philosopher Édouard Glissant’s question, ‘What If Carthage Hadn’t Been Destroyed?’ – Nidhal Chamekh’s, ‘Et si Carthage’, is inspired by the ancient city whose ruins are a ten-minute drive from Selma Feriani’s gallery space in downtown Tunis. By speculating on what might have happened if Carthage hadn’t been razed, Glissant offers a thought experiment in which the Punic people acted as a counterpoint to an empire that would go on to form the basis of Western civilization. [read more] PUBLICATIONPRESS
Green Snake: Women-Centred Ecologies
Tai Kwun Contemporary 25.3.2024 - 1.4.2024 Green Snake: women-centred ecologies focuses on the connections between art and the larger themes of ecology in the context of rising temperatures and extreme weather events. Gathering more than 30 artists and collectives from 20 countries, the exhibition presents over 60 works that draw on mythologies and world views with women at their heart to explore possibilities for other ecological relationships and imagine other futures. [read more] PUBLICATIONMUSEUM SITE
Claire Tabouret – I am spacious, singing flesh
Palazzo Cavanis, Venice Biennale 23.04.2022 — 27.11.2022 The canvas, like a mirror, throws back the question of how subjects are shaped in relation to the interior worlds and associations of the artist. Consistently across different bodies of work, Tabouret questions the structures and fluidities that exist within subjectivity and constructed identities, underlining multiple levels of transformation: of self, other, collective identities, of attempts to understand these in relation to gender and cultural backgrounds. [read more] PUBLICATIONMUSEUM SITE
Rethinking Nature
MADRE Museum 16.12.2021 - 5.4.2022 An exhibition, book and series of programmes focussing on contemporary artistic research-based practices and critical thinking that are contributing to cultural and political processes centring on political ecology in different contexts in order to rethink and transform conceptions of nature bequeathed by Europe’s Enlightenment paradigms in parallel to its imperial expansion. [read more] PUBLICATIONMUSEUM SITE
Beauty and Terror: intersections of colonialism and fascism in Naples
Madre museum 24.06 - 26.09.2022 The exhibition Beauty and Terror: sites of colonialism and fascism at the Madre museum of contemporary art in 2022 and the subsequent publication of the same title took the city of Naples and the Italian context in the years around 1940 as points of departure in order to investigate, through the eyes of contemporary artists and critical thinkers, the history and continuing legacy of the interconnections between colonialism and fascism in Italy. [read more] PUBLICATIONMUSEUM SITE
Clément Cogitore Ferdinandea
Madre museum 24.06 - 12.09.2022 Clément Cogitore’s new body of work, Ferdinandea, speculates, through 16mm film, video, photographs and historical documents, on the rise, fall and possible reemergence of an ephemeral volcanic island. Today, dormant eight meters below the waves, Ferdinandea could at any time re-emerge as a result of further seismic activity, and so spark new geopolitical manoeuvres. Cogitore orchestrates premonition, observation, metaphorical insight and fiction to consider what this tale may tell us of our current plight and our possible futures. [read more] PUBLICATIONMUSEUM SITE
Utopia Dystopia
Madre musuem 23.10.2019 - 23.12.2019 Artists and critical thinkers address questions of technological diversity, scale and of social value, reaffirming other modes of existence, geographic articulations and cosmologies. [read more] Publication
Cosmopolis #2: rethinking the human
Centre Pompidou 23.10.2019 - 23.12.2019 Artists and critical thinkers address questions of technological diversity, scale and of social value, reaffirming other modes of existence, geographic articulations and cosmologies. [read more] Brochure
Cosmopolis #1.5
Mao Jihong Arts Foundation / Centre Pompidou 3.11.2018 - 6.01.2019 Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence presents artworks and programs by almost 60 artists and groups, exploring ecology, technology and the commons, and envisioning how we today may draw on intelligent technologies, as well as on ecological intelligence, to advance social values—rather than leaving capital to largely define the uses of these techniques and knowledge systems. [read more] Publication
Cosmopolis #1 Collective Intelligence
Centre Pompidou 18.10.2017 - 18.12.2017 ‘Cosmopolis #1′ develops a layered platform of creation and transmission of knowledge that incorporates long-term cultural experiments, social actions, subjective imaginaries, and transcultural utopias that surpass the exhibition format. Through the participation of international artist and activist collectives, the exhibition becomes a platform through which the collectives’ urban and social programs unfold an agency and create interventions—intellectually and physically—in the social space. [read more] Publication
Sublime: intimations of infinity
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art 30.8.2014 - 24.5.2015 'Sublime: intimations of infinity' features artists that create effects of wonder and uncertainty by engaging with sacred architectures, sublime geometries and the power of the natural world. [read more]
Tracey Moffatt: Spirited
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art 25.10.14 - 8.02.2015 'Tracey Moffatt: Spirited' showcases the internationally renowned Australian artist's recent body of work, 'Spirit Landscapes' 2013, together with the premiere of a new video work, Art calls, featuring Moffatt as a television talk show host. To complement her own work, the artist selected works from the Gallery's Collection that explore a spiritual relationship with place. [read more] PublicationArchive Access
