Talks

Mirjam Varadinis

Conference: Contemporary Art Biennials – Our Hegemonic Machines in States of Emergency

28 June 2020, 3.20 pm

Discussion moderated by Antonio Cataldo

https://vimeo.com/439949010

Mirjam Varadinis is a curator and writer based in Zurich, Switzerland. She is a curator for Kunsthaus Zürich, where she has curated many exhibitions, including Aleksandra Mir: Switzerland and Other Islands (2006), Shifting Identities (2008), and Motion Picture(s) (2010).  She was in the curatorial team of Manifesta Palermo.

Antonio Cataldo is a writer and a curator and currently employed as the artistic director of Fotogalleriet Oslo. He studies at the PhD in Practice in Curating programme, University of Reading, Zurich University of the Arts.
www.curating.org/antonio-cataldo

The conference is organised by Prof Dr Dorothee Richter (Head of PhD in Practice in Curating, University of Reading/ Zurich University of the Arts) and Ronald Kolb, Scientific researcher PhD in Practice in Curating.) Respondents to the speakers are PhD Candidates of the PhD in Practice in Curating (University of Reading/ Zurich University of the Arts) and students of the MAS in Curating.

The online conference is supported by Goethe Institut Bucharest, The Suisse Arts Council ProHelvetia, and Zurich University of the Arts.