Pernod Ricard Fellowship
- Interior view of the Pernod Ricard Studio. Image: Aurélien Mole
Pernod Ricard, Villa Vassilieff’s leading sponsor, has joined forces with Villa Vassilieff to create the Pernod Ricard Fellowship: a grant aimed at supporting four international artists, curators and researchers in residence every year.
ThePernod Ricard Fellowship is conceived as a platform for artistic research dedicated to the experimentation of both non-linear models of creation and knowledge distribution between researchers, contemporary artists, cultural institutions, non-profit organizations and the general public.
Selected by an international committee consisting of ten members, the four Pernod Ricard Fellows are invited to spend three months in residency within a refurbished historical studio at the Villa Vassilieff. It is a unique opportunity for these artists and researchers to enhance their vision and to focus on their own work or any other projects. Reflecting the cosmopolitan identity and convivial atmosphere of the former studio of Marie Vassilieff, the Fellows will enjoy bespoke support from researchers and art professionals, along with access to a rich network of institutions in France and abroad, such as the Centre Pompidou (a longstanding partner of Pernod Ricard and Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research) and the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, a partner in the project.
The Pernod Ricard Fellows will also benefit from numerous research programs focusing on unexplored resources, developed by Villa Vassilieff in collaboration with museums, public and private archives, as well as universities and art schools. Lastly, the Fellows will enjoy a dynamic events programme at Villa Vassilieff, offering various options for conducting new investigations and collecting multiple narratives of our globalized world.
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Pernod Ricard Fellows 2020
Jumana Emil Abboud(artist, Palestine - Canada)
Jimena Croceri(artist, Argentina)
Christan Nyampeta(artist, researcher, curator, Rwanda - Netherlands)
Iki Yos Piña Narváez et Jota Mombaça(artists, Venezuela & Brazil)
Pernod Ricard Fellows 2019
Patricia Belli (artist, Nicaragua)
Mimi Cherono Ng’ok(artist & curator, Kenya)
Ingela Ihrman (artist, Sweden)
Michelle Wun Ting Wong (curator, Hong-Kong)
Pernod Ricard Fellows 2018
Newell Harry (artist, Australia)
Mohamed Larbi et Yto Barrada (artists, Marocco)
Beto Shwafaty (artiste, Brasil)
Nikolay Smirnov (artiste, Russia)
Pernod Ricard Fellows 2017
Koki Tanaka (artist, Japan)
Mercedes Azpilicueta(artist, Netherlands)
Samit Das (artist and curator, India)
Ndidi Dike (artist, Nigeria)
Pernod Ricard Fellows 2016
Andrea Ancira (curator and researcher, Mexico, Mexico)
Zheng Bo (artist, Hong Kong / Beijing, China)
Sojung Jun (artist, Seoul, South Korea)
Ernesto Oroza (artist, Miami, USA / Havana, Cuba)
- Mercedes Azpilicueta et Beto Shwafaty
ARTISTIC COMMITTEE 2020
Manuel Borja-Villel, Director, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Patrick D. Flores, Professor, University of the Philippines Department of Art Studies and Curator, Vargas Museum, Quezon City, Philippines
Bill Kouélany, Artist & Artistic Director, Les Ateliers Sahm, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
Jochen Volz, Director, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil
Colette Barbier, Director, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
Bernard Blistène, Director, MNAM CCI – Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Mélanie Bouteloup, Director, Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research & Villa Vassilie , Paris, France
ARTISTIC COMMITTEE 2019
Diana Campbell Betancourt, Artistic Director / Chief Curator, Dhaka Art Summitt, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Maria Lind, Director, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Miguel A. López, Co-director, TEOR/éTica, San Jose, Costa Rica
Bernard Blistène, Director, MNAM CCI – Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Colette Barbier, Director (Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France)
Mélanie Bouteloup, Director, Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research & Villa Vassilieff, Paris, France
ARTISTIC COMMITTEE 2018
In 2018, the Pernod Ricard Fellowship Artistic Committee is composed of:
Katie Dyer, Curator, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Sydney, Australia
Andrey Egorov, Head of Research Department & Curator, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Abdellah Karroum, Artistic Director, L’appartement 22, Rabat, Morocco & Director, Mathaf - Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
Victoria Noorthoorn, Director, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sumeshwar Sharma, Curator & co-Founder, the Clark House Initiative, Bombay, India
Benjamin Seroussi, Director, Casa do Povo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Bernard Blistène, Director, MNAM CCI – Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Colette Barbier, Director, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
Mélanie Bouteloup, Director, Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research & Villa Vassilieff, Paris, France
Virginie Bobin, Head of Programs, Villa Vassilieff, Paris, France
ARTISTIC COMMITTEE 2017
In 2017, the Artistic Committee of the Pernod Ricard Fellowship will be composed of:
Yuko Hasegawa, Artistic Director, Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Sunjung Kim, Director, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea
Victoria Noorthoorn, Director, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sumesh Sharma, Curator & Co-Founder of the Clark House Initiative, Bombay, India
Benjamin Seroussi, Director, Casa do Povo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Bisi Silva, Director, CCA, Lagos, Nigeria
Bernard Blistène, Director, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
Colette Barbier, Director, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
Mélanie Bouteloup, Director, Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research & Villa Vassilieff, Paris, France
Virginie Bobin, Head of Programs, Villa Vassilieff, Paris, France
ARTISTIC COMMITTEE 2016
In 2016, the Artistic Committee of the Pernod Ricard Fellowship will be composed of:
Nikita Yingqian Cai, Chief Curator of the Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
Antonio Eligio Fernández, Artist and Independent Curator, Cuba
Sunjung Kim, Director, Samuso, Seoul, South Korea
Osvaldo Sanchez, Director, inSite/Casa Gallina, Mexico City, Mexico
Bernard Blistène, Director, MNAM CCI – Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Victoria Noorthoorn, Director, Museum de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bisi Silva, Director, CCA, Lagos, Nigeria
Colette Barbier, Director, Ricard Corporate Foundation, Paris, France
Mélanie Bouteloup, Director, Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research and Villa Vassilieff, Paris, France
Virginie Bobin, Head of Programs, Villa Vassilieff, Paris, France
INTRODUCTION TO THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Bernard Blistène
Bernard Blistène is the director of the MNAM-CCI, Paris. In 1983, he was hired by Dominique Bozo at the Centre Pompidou, where he organized his first exhibitions – Christian Boltanski, François Morellet, Ed Ruscha, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol retrospectives. In 1990, he became the director of Musées de Marseille and created the city’s Contemporary Art Museum, which he co-directed until 1996. He organized the first French retrospective dedicated to Basquiat, Ben, Chris Burden, Robert Smithson and Paul Thek. In 1997, he became the co-director of the Musée national d’art moderne. In 2002, he was appointed general inspector of the artistic creation at the Délégation des Arts Plastiques. In 2009, he joined again the Centre Pompidou, as the director of the cultural development department and artistic director of the Nouveau Festival. Meanwhile, he pursued his curatorial activities, keen to rediscover major artistic movements: Fluxus in 2009 and 2010, Lettrisme in 2012…Besides, Bernard Blistène has written numerous books, amongst which Andy Warhol, cinéma (1990), Une histoire de l’art du XXème siècle (2011), and has contributed to numerous catalogues. He held the contemporary art chair at Ecole du Louvre from 1985 to 2005.
Diana Campbell Betancourt
Diana Campbell Betancourt (b. 1984, Los Angeles) is currently Artistic Director of Samdani Art Foundation and Chief Curator of Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh, a major research and exhibition platform for art in South Asia. She is currently developing the Foundation’s forthcoming Srihatta- Samdani Sculpture Park and Art Centre opening in Sylhet at the end of 2018. In addition, Betancourt is Artistic Director of Bellas Artes Projects, Bagac, Philippines and chairs the Mumbai Art Room board. She has collaborated with several sculpture parks across the world on commissions of Indian sculpture and has curated numerous solo projects with artists such as Haroon Mirza, Simryn Gill, Tino Sehgal, Lynda Benglis, Shilpa Gupta, Shahzia Sikander, Naeem Mohaiemen, Runa Islam, Shumon Ahmed, Pawel Althamer, Raqs Media Collective, among others. Betancourt has consulted with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the New Museum, the FRONT Triennial in Cleveland, and Alserkal Avenue in Dubai on their inclusion of South Asia in their exhibitions programs and has presented her research as part of MoMA’s C-MAP initiative. She has recently published a book with Mousse in Milan (co-edited with Katya Garcia Anton and Antonio Cataldo) on the Dhaka Art Summit and its Critical Writing Ensembles.
Katie Dyer
Katie Dyer is Curator Contemporary at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, where she leads cross-disciplinary contemporary curatorial programming. Prior to working at MAAS she has held positions at the National Art School and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and the Museum of Modern Art and The Drawing Center, New York. Katie has extensive experience working with Australian and international artists, social practice and performance. Her research areas focus on creative practice as a response to our contemporary conditions, interdisciplinary collaboration and the re-imagined museum. She is also examining how art–science can generate new modes of transdisciplinary knowledge and unique forms of public engagement. Recent and current projects include Curating Third Space: The value of art-science collaboration with the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and This is a Voice in partnership with the Wellcome Collection, London.
Andrey Egorov
Andrey Egorov is the Head of Research Department and Curator at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA). In 2006, he graduated from the History and Theory of Art Department of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. He is a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Andrey Egorov co-curated numerous exhibitions at MMOMA, including “Dreams for Those Who Are Awake” (2013), “Fortune Museum” (2014-2015), and “One Within the Other. Art of New and Old Media in the Age of High-Speed Internet” (2015-2016), as well as projects at the Manege Central Exhibition Hall and Mikhail Bulgakov Museum in Moscow.
His interest range from the Late Medieval European visual culture to contemporary artistic practices, with a focus on interdisciplinary museology, political iconography, iconoclasm and image theory.
Antonio Eligio Fernández
Tonel is an artist, art critic, and curator who shares his time in Canada and Cuba. He has worked extensively in Cuba, Latin America, Europe, Canada, and the United States. His texts on Cuban and Latin American contemporary art have been published regularly in Cuba and elsewhere. His essay « Loss and Recovery of the City (In the Cinema) » was published in a bilingual edition by White Wine Press and Pisueña Press (2010). Recent curatorial projects include, with Keith Wallace, The Spaces Between. Contemporary Art from Havana at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada and Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden (2014 – 2015). He has co-curated, with Concha Fontenla, Signos. Arte, industria y viceversa, which opened on October, 2015 at Factoría Habana, Havana, Cuba.
Patrick D. Flores
Patrick D. Flores is Professor of Art Studies at the Department of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines, which he chaired from 1997 to 2003, and Curator of the Vargas Museum in Manila. He was one of the curators of Under Construction: New Dimensions in Asian Art in 2000 and the Gwangju Biennale (Position Papers) in 2008. He was a Visiting Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1999 and an Asian Public Intellectuals Fellow in 2004. Among his publications are Painting History: Revisions in Philippine Colonial Art (1999); Remarkable Collection: Art, History, and the National Museum (2006); and Past Peripheral: Curation in Southeast Asia (2008). He was a grantee of the Asian Cultural Council (2010) and a member of the Advisory Board of the exhibition The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989 (2011) organized by the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe and member of the Guggenheim Museum’s Asian Art Council (2011 and 2014). He co-edited the Southeast Asian issue with Joan Kee for Third Text (2011). He convened in 2013 on behalf of the Clark Institute and the Department of Art Studies of the University of the Philippines the conference “Histories of Art History in Southeast Asia” in Manila. He was a Guest Scholar of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in 2014. He curated an exhibition of contemporary art from Southeast Asia and Southeast Europe titled South by Southeast and the Philippine Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2015. He is the Artistic Director of Singapore Biennale 2019.
Yuko Hasegawa
Yuko Hasegawa is Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2016 - present) and Professor of Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts (2016-present). She was Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2006 – 2016), Chief Curator and Founding Artistic Director (1999 - 2006) of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. She is Artistic Director of Inujima Art House Project (2011-present).
She was Curator of 11th Sharjah Biennial (2013), Curator for Art Basel in Hong Kong Encounters (2012-2014), Artistic Advisor of 12th Venice Architectural Biennale (2010), Co-Curator of 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010), Commissioner of Japanese Pavilion of 50th Venice Biennale (2003), Co-Curator of the 4th Shanghai Biennale (2002) and Artistic Director of the 7th International Istanbul Biennial (2001). She was a member of the Asian Art Advisory Board at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2008 - 2012).
Her recent exhibitions include GLOBALE: New Sensorium Exiting from Failures of Modernization at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (2016).
Her publications include ‘Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art,’ Museum of Modern Art, 2010, pp334-351 and ‘Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa: SANAA,’ Phaidon Press, 2006.
Abdellah Karroum
Abdellah Karroum (born 1970, Morocco) is a researcher and curator. He is the Director of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha (Qatar) since 2013.
Karroum is the founder and artistic director of several art projects: ‘L’appartement 22’(site), an experimental space for encounters, exhibitions and artists’ residencies founded in 2002 in Rabat, Morocco; the ‘Le Bout Du Monde’ art expeditions to different locations undertaken since 2000 together with artists and curators; and the ‘éditions hors’champs’ art publications that have been published since 1999 and Radioapartment22, an experimental online radio. He was Assistant Curator at the capcMusée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (1993-1996) where he curated numerous exhibitions: Pensées bleues (1993) ; Jean-Paul Thibeau (1995) ; Urgences (1996). Karroum was Associate Curator for the 2006 DAK’ART Biennial for African Contemporary Art, co-curator for the "Position Papers" program in the Gwangju Bienniale 2008 and the Curator of the 3rd AiM International Biennale’s exhibition 2009 in Marrakech. He was the curator of "Working for Change" proposal for a Moroccan Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale 2011. Karroum was Associate Curator of "Intense Proximity" for La Triennale of Paris 2012 and Artistic Director of the Biennale Benin 2012. He curated the multi stages project “Sous nos yeux” at La Kunsthalle de Mulhouse in 2013 and at MACBA-Barcelona in 2014.
He initiated the laboratory "Art, Technology and Ecology" at ESAV-Marrakech (Film School), which have been running monthly since March 2010. In 2010, he curated the exhibition project "Sentences on the Banks and other activities" for Darat Al-Funun in Amman. In 2007, Karroum served as a Member of the Golden Lion Jury in the Biennale of Venice. He is also Member of the Prince Pierre Monaco Foundation’s Artistic Council for its International Prize of Contemporary Art. And he is member of the acquisitions comity of the FRAC PACA collection in Marseille.
Karroum graduated from Bordeaux III Michel de Montaigne University. His research is funded in part by the Prince Claus Fund (Amsterdam), the Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA), and MoMA (NYC).
Sunjung Kim
Sunjung Kim is the director of the Art Sonje Center, Seoul, and curator of the REAL DMZ PROJECT, which engage issues surrounding the division of Korea and the border region near the demilitarized zone.
From 1993 to 2004, Kim was the chief curator at the Art Sonje Center, Seoul, and in 2005, was Commissioner of the Korean Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale. She has worked on numerous exhibitions of artists such as Martin Creed, Kim Beom, Haegue Yang, Shinro Otake, Lee Bul, Jewyo Rhii, Sung Hwan Kim, and Abraham Cruzvillegas at Art Sonje Center. Through Samuso, Kim established and curated Platform Seoul, an annual art festival whose editions include "Platform in KIMUSA: Void of Memory" (2009), and co-curated the "Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists From Korea" in 2009 at LACMA and MFAH. Kim has taken part in a wide range of projects: Artistic Director of Media City Seoul (2010), Artistic Co-Director of Gwangju Biennale (2012), Agent for dOCUMENTA 13 (2013), and Artistic Director of ACC Research & Archive in Asian Culture Center in Gwangju (2014-2015). She was a professor in the Department of Art Theory at Korea National University of the Arts from 2006 to 2012, and has received several awards such as the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Award (2004) and been honored with the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal by the French Minister of Culture and Communications (2003).
Maria Lind
Maria Lind is a curator, writer and educator based in Stockholm, currently the director of Tensta konsthall. She was the artistic director of the 11th Gwangju Biennale, the director of the graduate program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (2008-2010) and director of Iaspis in Stockholm (2005-2007). From 2002-2004 she was the director of Kunstverein and in 1998, co-curator of Manifesta 2. She has taught widely since the early 1990s. Currently she is professor of artistic research at the Art Academy in Oslo. She has contributed widely to newspapers, magazines, catalogues and other publications. She is the 2009 recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. In the fall of 2010 Selected Maria Lind Writing was published by Sternberg Press.
Miguel A. López
Writer, researcher, and Co-Director and Chief Curator of TEOR/éTica in San José, Costa Rica. His work investigates collaborative dynamics and feminist re-articulations of art and culture in recent decades. He has published in periodicals such as Afterall, ramona, E-flux Journal, Art in America, Art Journal, Manifesta Journal, Journal of Visual Culture, among others. He has recently curated “The Words of Others: León Ferrari and Rhetoric in Times of War” (with Ruth Estévez and Agustín Díez Fischer), Los Angeles, REDCAT,2017; “Balance and collapse. Patricia Belli, Works 1986-2016” at TEOR/éTica and Fundación Ortiz Gurdian, 2016-2017; “Teresa Burga. Structures of Air” (with Agustín Pérez Rubio) at the MALBA, Buenos Aires, 2015; and the project “God is Queer” for the 31th Bienal de São Paulo (2014). In 2016 he was recipient of the Independent Vision Curatorial Award from ICI, New York.
Victoria Noorthoorn
Victoria Noorthoorn is the Director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires since August 2013. She received an M. A. in Art History from the University of Buenos Aires and an M. A. in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies in Bard College, New York. She has acted as Projects Coordinator of the International Program at MoMA, New York; Assistant Curator of Contemporary Exhibitions at The Drawing Center, New York; and Curator at Malba-Fundación Costantini in Buenos Aires.
She has been independent between 2004 and 2013; during this time, she curated the 29th Pontevedra Art Biennial, in Pontevedra, Spain (2006); the 41 Salón Nacional de Artistas in Cali, Colombia (2008); the 7th Bienal do Mercosul in Porto Alegre, Brazil (2009); the 11ème Biennale de Lyon: A Terrible Beauty Is Born in France (2011); and The Circle Walked Casually, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin (2013), among many other exhibitions. In 2011, she was nominated finalist for The Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Excellence. In 2012, she was presented with the honors of the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2014, she was selected to attend the Global Museum Leaders Colloquium organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Osvaldo Sanchez
Osvaldo Sánchez (Havana, Cuba), is a curator and critic, lives in Mexico City. Obtained his MBA in Art History from the University of Havana. Sánchez was a professor at the Academia de arte San Alejandro (1988) and at the Instituto Superior de Arte (1990), in Havana. Artistic Director of inSITE_05 and Curator of Interventions, he also served as cocurator of inSITE2000-01, San Diego-Tijuana, California. Between 2000-01, Sánchez acted as Director of the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo and from 1997 to 2000 he was Director of the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, in Mexico City. He also served as Director of the IV and V International Forum of Contemporary Art Theory (FITAC, 1994-95). He has been also the Director of the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City (2007-2012). He is currently the Project Director of inSite/Casa Gallina.
Benjamin Seroussi
Benjamin Seroussi (1980, France) is based in São Paulo, Brazil where he works as curator, editor and cultural manager. He is currently the director of Casa do Povo and curator at Vila Itororó, both projects consist in developing cultural institutions in a close dialogue with their respective surroundings and with wider urban issues, aiming to reach local and international relevance.
Seroussi holds a Master in Sociology (Ecole Normale Supérieure and Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) and a Master in Cultural Management (Sciences-Po). He was deputy director at Centro da Cultura Judaica [Jewish Cultural Center], São Paulo, from 2009 to 2012; associate curator on the 31st Bienal de São Paulo, How To (...) Things That Don’t Exist, in 2014; and lectures regularly on curating and cultural management.
As editor and curator, Seroussi conceived and developed projects such as the publications Pop’Lab Guillaume-En-Egypte (2009, with Chris Marker, Annick Rivoire and Toffe), Revista 18 (2010-2012, with Michel Laub and Jaco Terron Reiners) and Nossa Voz [Our Voice] (2014-2015, with Mariana Lorenzi); the exhibitions Visões de Guerra: Lasar Segall (2012, with Jorge Schwartz and Marcelo Manzoni) and Singularities, Nira Pereg (2012, with Sergio Edelsztein); and the transdisciplinary research-based project focusing on new religious movements New Jerusalem (2011-ongoing, with Eyal Danon).
Sumesh Sharma
Sumesh Sharma is an artist, curator & writer. He co-founded the Clark House Initiative, Bombay in 2010 where he presently is the curator. His practice is informed by alternate art histories that often include cultural perspectives informed by socio-economics and politics. Immigrant Culture in the Francophone, Vernacular Equalities of Modernism, Movements of Black Consciousness in Culture are his areas of interest. He co-founded the Clark House Initiative in 2010. He will curate an exhibition at the Showroom, London in 2018 and the Centre George Pompidou in 2017. He was invited curator to the Biennale de Dakar, Dak’Art 2016 and Checkpoint Helsinki in 2015. He has curated exhibitions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Metropolitan Museum, New York, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, Para Site Hong Kong, Villa Vassilieff, Paris, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, ISCP New York, Insert 2014, New Delhi among others. He has been a resident at the Latvian Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Manifesta Online Residency, San Art, Vietnam, Cites des Arts, Paris, and was the ICI fellow for Senegal in 2014 where he researched how the funding mechanisms in culture and institutional support of art institutions utilise the power structures put in place by colonial laws. His artist practice seeks layers through political materiality and art historical & theoretical failures while discussing the visual. His Masters in Research at the Universite Paul Cezanne (2008) was an Inquiry into Artist Careers.
Bisi Silva
Bisi Silva is an independent curator. She founded the Centre for Contemporary Art of Lagos in 2007, and has directed it ever since. She has been the the Artistic Director of the 2015 edition of Rencontres de Bamako, African Photography Biennial. In 2012, she was co-curator of the exhibition The Progress of Love, a collective and transnational production which took place in three different exhibition spaces in the United States and in Nigeria (oct. 2012 – jan. 2013). She was co-curator for J.D. Okhai Ojeikere: Moments of Beauty at Museum Kiasma, in Helsinki (april – nov. 2011). In September 2009, she was also co-curator of the second edition of Thessalonique Biennial for contemporary art in Greece : Praxis: Art in Times of Uncertainty ; and in 2006, Silva was one of the co-curators of the Dakar Biennial in Senegal.
Jochen Volz
Jochen Volz is the General Director of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo. In 2017, he was the curator of the Brazilian Pavilion for the 53rd Venice Biennale. He was the curator of the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo in 2016 and served as Head of Programmes at the Serpentine Galleries in London (2012-2015); Artistic Director at Instituto Inhotim (2005-2012); and curator at Portikus in Frankfurt (2001-2004). Jochen was co-curator of the international exhibition of the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009) and the 1st Aichi Triennial in Nagoya (2010) and guest curator of the 27th Bienal de São Paulo (2006), besides having contributed to other exhibitions throughout the world. He holds a Master’s in art history, communication and pedagogy by the Humboldt University in Berlin (1998). Jochen lives in São Paulo
Nikita Yingqian Cai
Nikita Yingqian Cai lives and works in Guangzhou, where she is currently Associate Director and Chief Curator at Guangdong Times Museum. She has curated such exhibitions as A Museum That is Not (2011), Jiang Zhi: If This is a Man (2012), You Can Only Think about Something if You Think of Something Else (2014), Roman Ondák: Storyboard (2015). She is also organizing the para-curatorial series at Guangdong Times Museum, which features an annual seminar, and related publication. These seminars have included No Ground Underneath: Curating on the Nexus of Changes (co-organized with Carol Yinghua Lu, 2012), Active Withdrawal: Weak Institutionalism and the Institutionalization of Art Practice, (co-organized with Biljana Ciric, 2013), Cultivate or Revolutionize? Life between Apartment and Farmland (co-organized with Binna Choi, 2014), Between Knowing and Unknowing: Research in-and-through Art (2015). During the de Appel Curatorial Programme in 2009–10, she co-curated I’m Not Here. An Exhibition without Francis Alÿs, with the other participants. Her writings have appeared in a number of publications and magazines, and she is a contributing writer to LEAP, Artforum.com.cn, Arttime, and Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.
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- Mercedes Azpilicueta et Beto Shwafaty
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- Interior view of the Pernod Ricard Studio. Image: Aurélien Mole
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