Join curators Katya Garcia-Anton, Elena Sorokina and Marisol Rodriguez as they explore the themes of the 60th Venice Biennale curated by Adriano Pedrosa.
In the final weeks of the 60th Venice Biennale, titled ‘Stranieri Ovunque/Foreigners Everywhere,’ this panel discussion will explore the exhibition's core themes, shortcomings, and critical reception, with a focus on the work of several artists included in this edition.
What defines foreign and what is considered canonical today, and to whom? Who is the imagined viewer of this exhibition? And what place do misunderstandings, translations, and mistranslations have in this edition of the Biennale?
Join us for this conversation and delve into the heart of the 60th Venice Biennale. Don't miss the chance to engage with leading voices in the art world as discuss the complexities of identity, belonging, and cultural exchange in contemporary art
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Elena Sorokina is curator and art historian with a particular focus on sustainable curating and practices situated at the intersection of art, ecology and care. Throughout her career, she curated projects for different institutions, both museums and biennials, such as BOZAR, Stedelijk Museum, Pera Museum, Centre Pompidou and many others. She served as curatorial advisor of documenta 14 in Athens/Kassel and was chief curator of the High Institute of Fine Arts (HISK), Belgium in 2017-2018. In 2022, she co-curated the Armenian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Sorokina teaches and lectures internationally, she also serves as invited expert of the EU Creative Europe Program.
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Marisol Rodríguez as the Curatorial Director of the Mariane Ibrahim gallery’s three locations: Paris, Chicago, and Mexico City. Her background as an independent curator, writer, and editor, intersects cultural history, popular culture, and contemporary art. She worked as guest curator of the 13th Dakar Biennial in 2018, and recently curated AMEXICA at the Institut Culturel du Mexique in Paris (2023), as well as Chromosome Comic, at the acclaimed artist-run space Biquini Wax in Mexico City (2023).
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Katya García-Antón is an art historian, curator, writer and researcher based in Oslo. She has worked in Museo Nacional Reina Sofía Madrid, ICA London and IKON Birmingham; and was director of CAC Geneva, OCA Oslo and NNKM, Tromsø/Longyearbyen/Bodø. In Biennale Arte Venezia, she curated the Spanish Pavilion_Dora García (2011), the Nordic Pavilion_Camille Norment (2015), and commissioned/co-curated the transformation of The Nordic Pavilion into The Sámi Pavilion (2022). Publications include Art and Solidarity Reader. Radical Actions, Politics and Friendships, OCA 2022; Indigenous Histories Anthology, MASP/KODE 2024; and Raven Chacon´s A Worm´s Eye View from a Bird´s Beak, NNKM/SI 2024
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Kathleen Weyts is the editor-in-chief of GLEAN. From 2019 to 2023 she was the director of HART magazine, the Belgian magazine for contemporary art (and predecessor of GLEAN). She is a writer, lecturer and consultant in art management. She was the director of CAHF, Contemporary Art Heritage Flanders, and co-curated ‘Somewhere in Between. Contemporary Art Scenes in Europe’, ‘Imagine Europe, In Search of New Narratives’ and the symposium Variations on Vulnerability, all at Bozar, Brussels.
