The First Annual Conference About Artist-Curated Exhibitions

THE FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE ABOUT ARTIST-CURATED EXHIBITIONS

$10 tickets for each day: Day 1 / Day 2

Free for students: RSVP from your .edu email address and specify which day you plan to attend

Day 1: Elena Filipovic, Pati Hertling, Julie Tolentino, Edit Sasvári

Day 2: Natalie Musteata, Nan Goldin, Alex Fialho, Zanna Gilbert

Broadcast live on Montez Press Radio

In her 2018 anthology titled The Artist as Curator, the curator and art historian Elena Filipovic asks a seemingly simple question: what happens to exhibitions when artists are the curators?

When artists curate, not only do they share their perspectives on the work of their peers, but they tend to propose different ideas about what an exhibition is for and what it can do. A closer look at a history of artist-curated exhibitions could bring significant insights to the field.

How do these exhibitions differ from ones curated by curators? Do shared typologies or strategies emerge? What is the value, and the risks, involved with an exhibition that centers an artist's perspective on other artists? What is the artistic expression of an artist-curated exhibition? Why do museums invite artists to curate? What are some of the agendas, motivations, and expectations involved? What can curators, and museum professionals more generally, learn from artist-curated exhibitions? How does that history affect or inform a broader history of curatorial practice? Everything at GPS is about artists supporting and engaging with the work of other artists—whether it's by hosting an event about someone's work, selecting tracks for an LP, or jurying a small grant. What emerges is an artist's perspective on the work of another artist, poet, or musician.

And so every year, GPS convenes a two-day conference about artist-curated exhibitions. A different selection of case studies provides an annual forum for new scholarship about this under-studied and under-historicized curatorial form.

This inaugural conference was developed through a graduate course at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) led by ANTHONY HUBERMAN, visiting faculty at CCS Bard, and was organized by JOSEFINA BARCIA, DARÉ DADA, LILI REBEKA TÓTH, and CLARA VON TURKOVICH.