Frame welcomes you to meet curator Laura Serejo Genes on Thursday, February 27, from 5 to 7 pm at its office (Töölönkatu 11 A, Helsinki).
Laura Serejo Genes, together with Kiyoto Koseki, work as Frame Curatorial Research Fellows in 2024–2025. Their fellowship is organised together with Queens Museum in New York.
For the event at Frame, Genes will present their curatorial research project Santa Fe, Finland. It is followed by an informal gathering over refreshments. The event is open for all to participate.
Focusing on the curatorial potential of diplomacy, philanthropy, and industry, Santa Fe, Finland examines the work of Yrjö Alfred Paloheimo, Commissioner of the Finnish Pavilion of the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair, and Leonora Frances Curtin Paloheimo, founder of the Native Market in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Paloheimos’ collaborative activities from the 1940s onwards serve as examples to consider shifts and developments in cultural and political imaginaries from the Post-War era through neoliberal globalization.
If you can’t attend in person, you can join the discussion online via Zoom.
More about the Frame Curatorial Research Fellowship: Curating with Pasts
The Frame Curatorial Research Fellowship is a four-year programme for contemporary art curators. The programme explores new forms of research that renew curatorial and institutional working habits.
The Curating with Pasts Fellowship, conceived and hosted by Frame Contemporary Art Finland and partnered with the Queens Museum in New York City, looks into different cultural and geopolitical pasts as well as material realities as a point of departure for curatorial research and artistic imaginaries. The fellowship offers an opportunity to examine and rethink how historical shifts between the New York World’s Fairs’ cultural convergence (1939–1940 & 1964–1965), Cold War dichotomies, and globalization in the 1990s can resonate with and inform artistic, curatorial, and institutional practices today.
The Frame Curatorial Research Fellowship program is supported by the Kone Foundation.
Laura Serejo Genes & Kiyoto Koseki work together as a curatorial partnership based in New York. They produce site-specific exhibitions and programs by building upon existing systems to draw new social, material, and historical connections.
Installation at the Residence of the Finnish Consul General by Laura Serejo Genes and Kiyoto Koseki, photography by Rachel Hillery, SLH Studio.