CURATOR TALK - CURATORSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY ASIAN ART
CURATOR TALK - CURATORSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY ASIAN ART
VCCA is pleased to present curator talk: "Curatorship in contemporary Asian art" with lecturer Mami Kataoka - Chief curator of Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan) and moderator: Mizuki Endo - Artistic Director of the Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA). The event will take place at 10:00 AM on July 7, 2019.
Mami Kataoka has been the chief curator at the Mori Art Museum (MAM) in Tokyo since 2003. Also a writer, lecturer and professor, Kataoka has proven her intimate knowledge for trends within contemporary Asian art, addressing social, cultural and historical themes in the multitude of projects she has curated in the past decades. Exhibitions curated by her and shown at MAM include Follow Me!: Chinese Art at the Threshold of the New Millennium (2005) and Lee Bul: From Me, Belongs to You Only (2012). Other notable exhibitions curated by her include: Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past (2012) at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; and Ai Weiwei: According to What? (2012) at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC. Prior to her position at the Mori, Kataoka was chief curator of the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery. In July, Kataoka became the first Asian artistic director of the 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018), the largest festival of contemporary art in Australia.
During the talk at VCCA, Kataoka will share about her curatorial practice, curatorial practice of contemporary Asian art as well as her approaches and perspectives on the regional art scene.
The event is free for everyone. Register at: https://tinyurl.com/talk7719
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Curator talk: Curatorship in contemporary Asian art
10am - 12pm, Sunday - July 7, 2019 at Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA), B1-R3, Vincom Mega Mall Royal City, 72A Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi
