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The master’s degree program in Curatorial Practice (MACP) at the School of Visual Arts in New York City is pleased to announce its Curatorial Roundtable and Artists Roundtable special events for fall/winter 2024.
The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss important projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of MACP. The Artists Roundtable, hosted by Kate Fowle, Senior Curatorial Director of Hauser & Wirth in New York and MACP faculty member, features leading international artists talking about their curatorial experiences. Learn more about our guest speakers here.
Click on the date of each event to register on Eventbrite and receive a link to the Zoom session by email shortly before the event.
The Curatorial Roundtable
Wednesday, September 18, 9am ET
Jovanna Venegas, Curator, SculptureCenter, New York, will speak about her recent exhibitions and about the importance of building trust with artists toward building trust with audiences.
Wednesday, September 25, 9am ET
Axel Wieder, Director, Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, focuses on the history and theory of exhibitions, architecture, and political representation toward expanding the scope of work of art institutions toward becoming open spaces.
Wednesday, October 2, 5pm ET
Katerina Gregos, Artistic Director, National Museum of Contemporary, Athens, will consider democracy, human rights, economy, ecology, crisis, and changing global production circuits in addressing her recent exhibitions Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies), Statecraft (and Beyond), and the 1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art.
Wednesday, October 9, 9am ET
Daisy Nam, Director and Curator of CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, will touch on a range of curatorial work she has undertaken at Ballroom Marfa, the Carpenter Arts Center at Harvard University, and the School of the Arts, Columbia University, along with recent exhibitions at the Wattis.
Wednesday, October 15, 9am ET
Hou Hanru, independent curator, former Artistic Director of MAXXI (National Museum of 21st Century Arts), Rome, and one of the most prolific international curators of the last three decades, will discuss some of his early biennales that have led to more recent projects.
The Artists Roundtable
Tuesday, October 29, 5pm ET
Edgar Arcenaux constructs drawings, installations, video, and film works as complex arrangements of association that examine points of contact between implausible relations. Based in Los Angeles.
Tuesday, November 5, 5pm ET
Angel Otero’s practice spans painting, collage, and sculpture, through which he experiments to create abstract works centered on memory, identity, and lived experiences. Based in New York and Puerto Rico.
Tuesday, November 12, 5pm ET
Suchitra Mattai, a multidisciplinary American artist of Indo-Caribbean descent, creates mixed-media paintings, sculptures, and installations that shed light on untold histories. Based in Los Angeles.
Tuesday, November 19, 5pm ET
Jesse Krimes’s multimedia work explores societal mechanisms of power and control, with a focus on criminal and racial justice. Based in Philadelphia.
Tuesday, November 26, 5pm ET
Kambui Olujimi works between sculpture, installation, photography, writing, video, and performance, challenging established modes of thinking taken as inevitabilities. Based in New York.
Tuesday, December 3, 5pm ET
Minerva Cuevas’s research-based projects encompass installation, street interventions, muralism, and sculpture, exploring notions of civilization and progress, identifying resistance in everyday life, and questioning our political imaginary. Based in Mexico City.
Tuesday, December 10, 5pm ET
Julianknxx’s polyphonic work, rooted in poetry, extends into performance, film, music, and sculpture. Based in London.
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Learn more about and register for the September information session about the MACP program here. Later sessions will be held on October 17, November 14, and January 11, 2025. For fall 2025 admission, apply now here.
