Mandag d. 22. april gæster den amerikanske kurator Helen Molesworth Det Jyske Kunstakademi. Molesworth vil afholde en Artist Talk i Bugten og alle er velkomne til at deltage. Artist Talken bliver afholdt på engelsk.
Om Artist Talken
What are the aims of collecting contemporary art for today’s museums? What are the criteria for choosing which art objects will come to have their final resting place in a museum? How does art’s long association with memory and history, and memorialization and death, change over time? And how has the role of the curator changed over time as well, especially when it comes to the ethics of collecting? This essay looks at the complicated nuances of acquiring art for museums by foregrounding the work American artist Zoe Leonard made in response to the devastating losses of the AIDS/HIV crisis of the 1980s and 90s.
Bio
Helen Molesworth is a writer, podcaster, and curator based in Los Angeles and Provincetown. In 2023 Phaidon published Open Questions, Thirty Years of Writing About Art, an anthology of her essays. Her podcasts include Death of an Artist a 6-part podcast about the intertwined fates of Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta and the inaugural season of Recording Artists with The Getty. She is also the host of DIALOGUES, a podcast that features interviews with artists, writers, fashion designers, and filmmakers hosted by the David Zwirner Gallery.
Her major museum exhibitions include: One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art; Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957; Dance/Draw; This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s; Part Object Part Sculpture, and Work Ethic. She has organized one-person exhibitions of Ruth Asawa, Moyra Davey, Noah Davis, Louise Lawler, Steve Locke, Anna Maria Maiolino, Josiah McElheny, Kerry James Marshall, Catherine Opie, Amy Sillman, and Luc Tuymans. She is the author of numerous catalogue essays and her writing has appeared in Artforum, Art Journal, Documents, and October. The recipient of the 2011 Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Curatorial Excellence, in 2021 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 2022 she was awarded The Clark Art Writing Prize.
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