Experimenter Curators’ Hub is a platform for developing and sustaining discourse on curatorial practice and exhibition-making through critical discussion and debate. Structured as a deeply intensive program, every year the hub invites some of the foremost curators of the world to present their practice with reference to recent exhibitions curated by them. The audience at Experimenter Curators' Hub plays an active role in this exchange and contributes significantly to the conversations. The final day ends with a moderated panel discussion with all the participating curators and collaborators reflecting on the key aspects that emerged over the course of the hub.
The aim of Experimenter Curators' Hub this year will be to be inclusive of a multitude of voices, not only of curators but also of individuals who influence the work of curatorial thinking. The Hub will aim to delve into the multiplicities that inform each speaker’s practice through the sharing of proposed projects and possible ideas of collaboration.
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata collaborates with Experimenter to present the Experimenter Curators’ Hub this year in terms of inviting Dr. Stephanie Rosenthal, Curator and Director of Gropius Bau, Berlin for the hub.
Dr. Stephanie Rosenthal and her collaborator Grace Ndiritu will have their conversation on Tuesday 9 November from 12:45 - 2 pm (CET) / 11:45 am - 1 pm (GMT) / 5:15 - 6:30 pm (IST).
For registering for the hub, for details about the other participating curators and the complete schedule of the programme kindly click here.
Dr. Stephanie Rosenthal has been Director of the Gropius Bau in Berlin since 2018. She began her programme that year with the exhibition Lee Bul: Crash, which was organised in collaboration with the Hayward Gallery, London. Her subsequent exhibitions have included Garden of Earthly Delights (2019), Wu Tsang: There is no nonviolent way to look at somebody (2019), Lee Mingwei: 禮 Li, Gifts and Rituals, Otobong Nkanga: There Is No Such Thing as Solid Ground (2020) and most recently, Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective - A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe (2021), Hella Jongerius: Woven Cosmos (2021) and Zheng Bo: Wanwu Council 萬物社 (2021).
From 2007 to 2017 she was the Chief Curator at the Hayward Gallery, London. Here she curated numerous exhibitions with celebrated international artists including Robin Rhode: Who Saw Who (2008), MOVE: Choreographing You (2010) and more. She was Artistic Director of the 20th Biennial of Sydney in 2016, titled The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed, which brought together more than 80 artists from around the world such as Lee Bul, Boris Charmatz, Lee Mingwei, Helen Marten, Otobong Nkanga and Johanna Calle.
Prior to that she worked as a curator at the Haus der Kunst in Munich and staged several acclaimed exhibitions.
She studied art history at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich and received her doctorate at the University of Cologne. Since then she has published influential articles and lectures on contemporary art with a focus on performative methods. She is a member of numerous international juries, chairing the International Jury of the Venice Biennale in 2019, as well as being a member of the jury of the Hyundai Blue Prize and the Gwangju Biennale.
Location
Online
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata
Park Mansions, Gate 4 57A, Park Street Kolkata 700 016 India
Location
Online
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata
Park Mansions, Gate 4 57A, Park Street Kolkata 700 016 India
