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ALEX GARTENFELD
words by Nicolás Guagnini
I met Alex Gartenfeld sometime between 2004 and 2006. Where I met him is also fuzzy in my memory — maybe in the corridors of Columbia University’s Barnard College, or at some opening in the very incipient Lower East Side. At
LUCA LO PINTO
words by Ilaria Gianni
Luca Lo Pinto and I have known each other for a long time, since we met in 2002 in a contemporary art history class at the University of Rome. Even then, it was very clear to him that he wanted to become a curator. He has always
CURATING NON-PROFIT
moderated by Jason Hwang
JASON HWANG: If museums and galleries are the elephants and crocodiles of art spaces, what kind of animal is your space? And why? KUNSTHALLE LISSABON (Luis Silva and João Mourão): We have to go with the fox. When googling
CURATING LARGE-SCALE
moderated by Chris Sharp
CHRIS SHARP: The large-scale exhibition is an exciting and challenging topic. Some people have a very antagonistic relationship vis-à-vis the large-scale, or perhaps better put, perennial exhibition, seeing in it little more than a prolonged instant of curatorial hubris,
CURATING THE INTERNET
moderated by Karen Archey
KAREN ARCHEY: As the verb “to curate” has spilled into popular usage in recent years (“curate your closet!”, etc.), it has become a broader term, a synonym for the action of accumulating things: objects, texts, images, artworks, words,
CURATING THE GALLERY
moderated by Alessio Ascari
ALESSIO ASCARI: Increasingly, curators are looking back to under-recognized artists from the past — a tendency well exemplified by your work with the gallery, which you described as driven by an attempt to “undermine
JOHN ARMLEDER
interview by Andrea Bellini
ANDREA BELLINI: Ecart is a group of artists, an independent space and a publishing company you founded in Geneva with Patrick Lucchini and Claude Rychner in 1969. But your activity and your friendship with the Ecart
“EXPANDED RADIO”
NTS founder Femi Adeyemi interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist
HANS ULRICH OBRIST: Growing up in Switzerland I was inspired by curators like Harald Szeemann, but strangely enough my most important influences came from outside art like Sergei Diaghilev, founder of the Ballet Russes and
“APPROPRIATING EXHIBITIONS”
Bob Nickas interviewed by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen
BOB NICKAS: From the vantage of contemporary art, art history has usually been about the distant past. But in our time the past seems to have caught up. For my generation, moving to New York in 1984 and beginning to write and
“TRUTH TO ELEMENTS”
Stephan Trüby interviewed by Carson Chan
CARSON CHAN: You’ve been teaching Spatial Design at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) since 2009, and later this year you will start teaching at Technical University Munich. In your pedagogy, what is architecture?
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