Visitor Programme 2023

An overview of Frame’s Visitor Programme in 2023

Karima Boudou
Curator at S.M.A.K. Ghent
23-26 November

Karima Boudou is currently serving as Curator at S.M.A.K., the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art – Ghent. Trained in art history (Montpellier, Rennes) and philosophy (Nanterre), Karima Boudou participated in the Curatorial Training Programme at De Appel, Amsterdam, from 2012–13.

Prior to S.M.A.K. In the past ten years, she has organized research projects, exhibitions, conferences, and publications with institutions in Europe and Morocco; such as De Appel, Mu.ZEE Kunstmuseum aan Zee, Institut Français des Pays-Bas / Maison Descartes, Palais de Tokyo, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, Fondation Ricard, Stedelijk Museum, L’appartement 22, Le Cube, the Marrakech Biennale, MAMCO and the University Mohammed V in Rabat.

Her work intersects theoretically and practically with postcolonial theory and the reactualization of archives and decentered histories of modern and contemporary art, considering strategically the politics of vision and visibility in art history. In 2017 she was a Research Fellow at MAC VAL Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, where she conducted research in the archive of Raoul-Jean Moulin’s archive.

Her recent work, reactivated from Morocco, is invested in new research lines on the life and oeuvre of African-American Surrealist Ted Joans. This three-day public forum drew points and lines between private American and Dutch archives by reactualizing the legacies of artists and writers of African descent in the international Surrealist movement.

Her most recent work focuses on the life and archive of politician and pan-Africanist Mehdi Ben Barka. She proceeds by resonance and ricochet to question via multiple ramifications history and identity – while crossing political praxis and theoretical reflection. The three public presentations of this research took place at Formerly Known as Witte de With in Rotterdam (2020), with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2021), and at West Den Haag (2022).

Mika Yoshitake
Independent Curator
21-23 November

Mika Yoshitake, PhD, is an independent curator with expertise in postwar Japanese art. A recipient of the AICA-USA award for her exhibition Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha (2012), Yoshitake is also the curator of Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s (2019) at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, Yoshitomo Nara (2021–22) at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature (2021) at the New York Botanical Garden. Formerly a curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2011–18) where she organised Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, she is currently co-curating Breath(e): Towards Climate and Social Justice at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles as part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x LA in 2024.

Mika Yoshitake is visiting Helsinki in relation to the exhibition of Ryoji Ikeda at Amos Rex for which she has written an essay.

Ama Josephine Budge
Research Fellow
19-27 October

Ama Josephine Budge (she / her / hers) is a speculative writer, artist, curator and pleasure activist whose work navigates intimate explorations of race, art, ecology and feminism, working to activate movements that catalyze human rights, environmental evolutions and troublesomely queered identities. She is a PhD candidate in Psychosocial Studies with Dr Gail Lewis at Birkbeck, University of London.

Her research takes a queer, decolonial approach to challenging climate colonialism with a particular focus on inherently environmentalist Pleasure practices in Ghana and across the Black Diaspora.

Ama is a curatorial fellow for 2021–2023 and will visit Finland this October. Budge’s research Pleasurable Ecologies – Formations of Care: Curation as Future-building is an in-depth exploration of decolonial and intersectional curatorial care practices.The research acknowledges the entire ecosystem of socio-historical politics involved in curating contemporary art and cultural production. The Fellowship is a collaboration between Frame and EVA International.

Viktória Popovics
Curator of Ludwig Museum, Budapest
3-6 October

Viktória Popovics is an art historian and curator based in Budapest. She has been working at the Ludwig Museum – Museum for Contemporary Art Budapest since 2014, where she contributed to several large-scale exhibitions focusing on Central and Eastern European art.(Ludwig Goes POP – The East Side Story (2015), Permanent Revolution. Ukrainian Art Today(2018), IPARTERV50+. The Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde (2019), Slow Life. Radical Everyday (2021). Her most recent curatorial project Handle with CARE (15 September 2023 – 14. January 2024) departs from the crisis of care prevalent on interpersonal, economic, political, and ecological level.
Her academic interest centers around female artists and women’s issues; in recent years she has focused on the representation of motherhood in contemporary art. Intersection between art and feminism from trans-regional perspectives is the topic of the research seminar titled Narrating Art and Feminism: Eastern Europe and Latin America she is currently involved in. (Connecting Art Histories Initiative, GettyFoundation, 2021-2023). She was part of the international research project Secondary Archive. Platform for Women Artists from Central and Eastern Europe. She is PhD fellow of the Eötvös Loránd University Doctoral Program and from 2020 a member of the Hungarian Section of AICA.

The visit of Viktória is a collaboration with Finnagora – Finnish Institute in Hungary

Caimin Walsh
CPR Participant: (RE) Presentation in the Nordics
2-3 September

Caimin Walsh (Ireland) is a curator and cultural producer from Limerick City, Ireland. He holds a BA in Fine Art from Limerick School of Art and Design (2013). His work encompasses events, exhibitions, research projects, festivals and educational programmes. Through his curatorial projects, he connects artists, communities and audiences to examine aspects of shared cultural and natural heritage. Caimin is Curator at Ormston House (est.2011), a cultural resource centre in Limerick City. He is Chairperson of Spacecraft Studios (est.2017), a non-profit contemporary art studio in Limerick City. He was selected for the MAC Curatorial Directions programme in Belfast, New York and Philadelphia (2019). Recent and ongoing projects include Ollphéist (2020), River Residencies, co-curated with Mary Conlon (2021-23), Engine of Hell (2022), Crex crex, crex crex, crex… (2022-23) and More Than the Reverb, co-curated with Rachel Gilbourne, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2022).

CPR 2023: RPN brings up to 8 international curators to Finland, Norway, and Sweden from August 20th – September 8th, 2023 to research the regional art scene with the ambition to get a better understanding of the complex history and current political situation in the Nordics. Following the program, the participating curators are invited to propose an exhibition with artists and issues they have come across during the program.

Emiliano Valdés
CPR Participant: (RE) Presentation in the Nordics
2-3 September

Emiliano Valdés (Colombia/Guatemala) has been Chief Curator at the Medellín Museum of Modern Art (MAMM) since 2015. Prior to that, he was Associate Curator for the 10th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea, 2014) and Co-Director of Proyectos Ultravioleta (2010 – 2014).

From 2009 to 2012, he was Director of Visual Arts at the Centro Cultural de España en Guatemala. In 2012, Valdés was the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Curatorial Fellow at dOCUMENTA(13) (Kassel), and has worked for institutions such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, (Madrid, 2005 – 2006), and contemporary Magazines, (London, 2006 – 2008).

He has also been Co-Curator of the 8th Bienal de Artes Visuales Nicaragüenses (Nicaragua); Curator of the 17th Bienal de Arte Paiz (Guatemala); Director of the seminar ‘Hábitat: Arte, contexto y análisis urbano’ (Nicaragua), and Artistic Director of Foto30. Recently, Valdés has organized exhibitions such as Medellín. Pulse of the City (MAMM, 2022), Time to Listen to Each Other. Manifestations of Indigenous Art in Colombia (MAMM, 2022), María Teresa Hincapié. If This Were a Beginning of Infinity (MAMM and MACBA, 2022–2023), Rodrigo Hernández. El espejo (MAMM and Museo Jumex, 2022); and Allora & calzadilla. The Night We Became People Again (MAMM, 2019).

Following the program, the participating curators are invited to propose an exhibition with artists and issues they have come across during the program.

Magdalena Testoni
CPR Participant: (RE) Presentation in the Nordics
2-3 September

Magdalena Testoni (Argentina) is an artist, independent curator and art producer based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She co-directs El Vómito, an independent art space focused on experimental artistic practices. She is also a coordinator in Pulpería Mutuálica, another self-managed space dedicated to alternative artistic practices. She was part of the Public Programs team in MALBA from 2021 to 2022.

She is the director of Paraguay, an art book fair, with which she co-founded the network Formas de la idea, that linked independent publishers and artists from different cities of Latin América.

She is the editor at Cuestión and a member of microutopías Press, a publishing house and art book fair from Montevideo, with which she participated in the lumbung of Publishers at documenta fifteen in July 2022. She has collaborated as a curator and lecturer with several art book fairs of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Florianópolis, Montevideo, Lima and Santiago de Chile. She writes texts and critical essays for different magazines, art galleries and institutions. She also works as an independent manager, production assistant, stager, designer and book publisher.

Following the program, the participating curators are invited to propose an exhibition with artists and issues they have come across during the program.

Jasa McKenzie
CPR Participant: (RE) Presentation in the Nordics
2-3 September

Jasa McKenzie (USA) is a queer curator, her work driven by issues of identity, equality, and social justice. Currently, she holds a position with The Great Northern, a recurring multidisciplinary exhibition focused on climate change in Minneapolis. She has been a part of the curatorial teams for documenta fifteen in Kassel, Germany (2022), Desert X in the Coachella Valley, California (2019, 2021), and Berlin Biennale 10 in Berlin, Germany (2018). She was the creator and co-host of SOTA: State of the Arts (2018-2020)–a podcast dissecting critical issues in contemporary art, along with SOTA Projects, which produced pop-up exhibitions and programming in the Twin Cities. She was the first-place recipient of the 2017-18 Apexart Exhibition Franchise Program, which resulted in the exhibition Absences in Nagoya, Japan (2018).

Natasha Marie Llorens
CPR Participant: (RE) Presentation in the Nordics
2-3 September

Natasha Marie Llorens (France/Sweden) is a curator and an arts writer based in Stockholm.Curatorial projects include En Attendant Omar Gatlato: Epilogue at the CNAC Magasin in Grenoble, and Mejan Internationale: Home to Home to Home to Home at Mint ABF in Stockholm. She won the Andy Warhol Arts Writers grant in 2022 and publishes regularly in Artforum, Art Papers, e-flux Criticism, and frieze, among other international art publications. Her current artistic research project on Algerian socialism in the 1970s, conducted in collaboration with contemporary artist Massinissa Selmani, will be presented in November 2023 at rhizome gallery in Algiers. Llorens holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and a PhD in modern and contemporary art history from Columbia University. She has been professor of art and theory at the Royal Institute Stockholm since 2020.

Choi Sin-yi, Emilie
CPR Participant: (RE) Presentation in the Nordics
2-3 September

Choi Sin-yi, Emilie (Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong-based researcher, writer, and curator. She is a PhD candidate in the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. She has curated various art and film programmes as creative outputs of her research. Her curatorial practices specialize in moving images and performative dimensions in a black box, white cube, community, and various spatial or virtual possibilities along the history and the contemporary. She examines media, visual and cinematic practices concerning contemporary critical theory, institutions and creative industry, digitality, media archaeology, and community-making. She is now also a board member of Videotage and a member of Floating Projects (Collective).

Myriam Amroun
CPR Participant: (RE) Presentation in the Nordics
2-3 September

Myriam Amroun (Algeria) is an independent curator and cultural practitioner. She is the co-founder and former artistic director of rhizome. Capitalizing on more than ten years of experience, she worked for several years on issues related to the arts as a vector for reactivating and reclaiming public spaces in Algiers, and creating interstitial spaces for social and cultural gatherings of communities, for which she received the Prince Claus Seed Award in 2021.

She worked on two extensive field researches carried out between 2012 and 2017, in the framework of the Trans-Cultural Dialogues Platform, that shaped both DJART (2014) and EL MEDREB (2016) projects, developed and imagined as city-scale experimental labs. Amroun worked on various other projects such as DURAR program and the UNESCO World Heritage Education Program in China, along with diverse consultancy assignments as a cultural advisor.

In 2017, the urge and need to create a sustainable organization with the perspective of achieving a substantial work on the arts and cultural sectors in Algeria and the region, resulted in the founding of rhizome that operates as both a commercial gallery and an independent art organization. Combining both her institutional and independent work, Amroun’s practice lies at the intersection of arts, culture, humanities and politics.

Amanda Carneiro
Artistic Organizer of the 60th La Biennale di Venezia
16-17 June

Amanda Carneiro is co-editor at the Afterall Journal, assistant curator at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo and artistic organizer of the 60th La Biennale di Venezia, 2024. Recently, she has co-organized the exhibitions and catalogs of Abdias Nascimento, Leonor Antunes, and Sonia Gomes, at MASP. Carneiro graduated and holds a master’s degree in Social History from the University of São Paulo, where she is a Ph.D. candidate investigating the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture known as FESTAC’ 77. Previously, she worked at Museu Afro Brasil, a museum dedicated to the history and art of the African diaspora, and also as a researcher of the ‘Art and Decolonization’ a long-term project and a critical forum for cultural theorists, curators, and artists to raise questions and formulate proposals for the reinterpretation of exhibitions and museum collections in non-canonical ways.

Carneiro’s visit to Finland in June is organised in collaboration with the Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Danish Arts Foundation and IASPIS – International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts.

Isabella Rjeille
Co-curator, the New Museum Triennial
17-19 June

Isabella Rjeille is a curator, writer and editor. She works as curator at Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) and is currently working as co-curator, along with Vivian Crockett, of the Sixth New Museum Triennial, opening in 2026 in New York. At MASP, she has curated monographic and group exhibitions including “Cinthia Marcelle: por via das dúvidas” [By Means of Doubt] (2022), “Maria Martins: Desejo imaginante” [Tropical Fictions] (2021), “Histórias Feministas: artistas depois de 2000” [Feminist Histories: Artists After 2000] (2019), “Lucia Laguna: Vizinhança” [Neighborhood] (2018), and “Tracey Moffatt: Montagens” [Montages] (2017). Previously, Rjeille worked at the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo and served as Curatorial Assistant for the Thirty-Second Bienal de São Paulo, “Incerteza Viva” [Live Uncertainty], in 2016. She has also collaborated with artist-run spaces as well as autonomous cultural centers in São Paulo, such as Casa do Povo, where she served as editor of its publication Nossa Voz [Our Voice] from 2014 to 2020.

Rjeille’s visit to Finland in June is organised in collaboration with the Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Danish Arts Foundation and IASPIS – International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts.

Bruno Alves de Almeida
Artistic Director, Luleåbiennial
8-11 June

Bruno Alves de Almeida (Brazil/Portugal) is a curator and architect based in the Netherlands, currently artistic co-director and curator of the Luleå Biennial 2024 – Art & Architecture, in Sweden, curator and resident liaison of the Jan van Eyck Academie, and tutor of the Design Academy Eindhoven, in the Netherlands. His practice is rooted in site/context-specificity and transdisciplinary thinking, resulting in projects responding to timely issues, creating bridges between institutional and public spaces, and experimenting beyond customary formats and spaces for the presentation, production and experience of artistic practice.

In São Paulo, Brazil, Bruno has spearheaded exhibitions and site-specific public commissions responding to key urban contexts. Through commissions to emerging and established Latin-American artists and architects, these projects have dissolved boundaries between exhibition spaces and the public realm, have reached wider and diverse audiences, while broadening the public discussion on pressing socio-political and urban issues.

In the Netherlands, Bruno has worked closely with a multidisciplinary group of artists, designers, architects, curators, among others hosted by the Jan van Eyck Academie and the Design Academy Eindhoven. The projects he has curated have explored the agency of artistic practices in face of socio-ecological breakdown, and fostered debates and crossovers between the arts, design, the social and natural sciences, and institutions and policymakers beyond cultural spheres.

Bruno has also collaborated internationally with institutions such as TATE (UK), Harvard Graduate School of Design, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Independent Curators International (USA), PACT Zollverein (Germany), 11th São Paulo Architecture Biennial, Pivô Art and Research (Brazil), among others. He is an alumnus of the De Appel Curatorial Programme, Amsterdam, holds a Master from the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, Switzerland, and a Bachelor from the Oporto Faculty of Architecture, Portugal.

Beth Bate
Director of Dundee Contemporary Arts
7-11 June

Beth Bate is Director of Dundee Contemporary Arts. With large-scale gallery spaces, two cinemas, an open access print studio, and an award-winning learning programme, as well as a shop, hire spaces and café bar, DCA is a vital cultural and social hub for those that live in, work in and visit Dundee.

Beth is a Trustee of the Edinburgh Art Festival and of the Mount Stuart Trust, and a member of the Board of V&A Dundee. She sits on the British Council’s Scotland Advisory Committee and the Scottish Parliament’s Cross Party Group for Culture. Beth was also on the selection panel for the British Council’s 2022 Venice Biennale Pavilion presentation with Sonia Boyce.

Before joining DCA, Beth led Great North Run Culture in Newcastle as Director for 11 years, commissioning projects by artists including Mark Wallinger, Douglas Gordon, Jane and Louise Wilson, and Fiona Banner. Originally from Wales, Beth has a BA (Hons) in English with History of Art from the University of Birmingham and an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester. She was an Arts Council England Fellow on the 2014/15 Clore Leadership Programme and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.

Bate’s visit is organised in collaboration with the Finnish Cultural Institute in the UK and Ireland.

Aude Christel Mgba
Artistic Director, Luleåbiennial
9-12 June

Aude Christel Mgba (b.1991, Cameroon) is an independent curator and art historian based between Cameroon and the Netherlands.

Aude engages with decoloniality through research projects and the creation of platforms that aim to transcribe, translate, and embody ancestral knowledge. Her curatorial experiences include collaborations that question forms of making and showing art that tend to be centred between art institutions and art workers. She is more interested in collaboration that expands beyond those spaces to embrace different communities.

In 2017, Aude worked as an assistant curator for the SUD2017, an international triennial of art in the public space, organized by doual’art, a centre for contemporary art, in the city of Douala. From 2019 to 2022 she was co-curator of sonsbeek20->24, an international exhibition in the city of Arnhem. Aude was the curator of the 2021 project of ART X LAGOS. Together with Bruno Alves de Almeida, she will be the artistic director of Luleå 2024.

Dominique Fontaine
Curator of Toronto Biennial of Art 2024
11-15 June

Dominique Fontaine is curator for the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA). She graduated in visual arts and arts administration from the University of Ottawa (Canada), and completed De Appel Curatorial Programme (Amsterdam, the Netherlands).

Dominique’s recent projects include Imaginaires souverains, Le présent, modes d’emploi, Maison de la culture Janine-Sutto; Foire en art actuel de Québec 2020; Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art; Dineo Seshee Bopape: and- in. the light of this._______, Darling Foundry; Repérages ou À la découverte de notre monde ou Sans titre, articule; Between the earth and the sky, the possibility of everything, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto 2014. She is co-editor of the recent publication Making History: Visual Arts and Blackness in Canada.

Dominique’s recent projects include Imaginaires souverains, Le présent, modes d’emploi, Maison de la culture Janine-Sutto; Foire en art actuel de Québec 2020; Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art; Dineo Seshee Bopape: and- in. the light of this._______, Darling Foundry; Repérages ou À la découverte de notre monde ou Sans titre, articule; Between the earth and the sky, the possibility of everything, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto 2014. She is co-editor of the recent publication Making History: Visual Arts and Blackness in Canada.

Dominique is co-initiator of the Black Curators Forum; is a member of AICA-Canada, the American Association of Museum Curators (AAMC,) and of the International Contemporary Art Curators Association (IKT); and is also part of Intervals Collective. Dominique Fontaine is laureate of Black History Month of the City of Montreal 2021.

Dominique’s visit to Finland is organised in collaboration with the Office for Contemporary Art Norway.

Hitomi Iwasaki
Head of Exhibitions and Curator, Queens Museum
7-11 June

Hitomi Iwasaki is Head of Exhibitions and Curator at the Queens Museum, and has been a member of the Museum’s curatorial staff since 1996. She has worked on landmark exhibitions, including Cai Guo Qiang (1997) and Global Conceptualism: Points of Origins 1950s-1980s (1999–2001), Caribbean: Crossroad of the World (2012), and After Midnight: Indian Moderns and Contemporary Indian Art (2016).

Hitomi has organized a number of group exhibitions of emerging artists, including iterations of Queens International (2002, 2004, 2014 and 2016), and project exhibitions with emerging and mid-career artists, including the Museum’s first artist-in-residence program with Johanna Unzueta, Daniel Bozhkov, Duke Riley, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Sable Elyse Smith, and many others.

She organized Bringing the World into the World (2015), a major exhibition that centered around the Museum’s Panorama of the City of New York and its 50th anniversary with fifteen cross-generational international artists, and most recently Patty Chang: The Wandering Lake, 2011- 2018 (2018) and Christine Sun Kim: Time Owes Me Rest Again (2022) and Aliza Nisenbaum: Queens, Lindo y Querido (2023). Her most recent publications include Patty Chang: The Wandering Lake (2018; Queens Museum and Dancing Fox Press/New York) and The Panorama Handbook: Thoughts and Visions On and Around the Panorama of the City of New York (2018, Queens Museum). Hitomi won the International Association of Art Critic’s (IACA) Curator’s Award for Best Project in a Public Space, 2009-2010. She is currently preparing for an exhibition and publication of Aki Sasamoto (Fall 2023), performance artist in New York.

Adam Kleinman
Director of Kunsthall Trondheim
7-11 June

Adam Kleinman has organised numerous exhibitions, programs, and events, and has authored monographic texts for artists such as John Latham, Rossella Biscotti, Bertille Bak, and many others; he is a frequent contributor to Artforum–for whom he recently went on assignment in Ukraine to cover the Russian War of Aggression on Ukraine–and other like publications as well. Kleinman is likewise the curator of several exhibitions dedicated to the presentation of individual artists such as Gala Porras-Kim, and American Artist, and is the commissioner of new work by artists including Carlos Motta, Trevor Paglen, Davide-Christelle Sanvee, Jérôme Bel & Andros Zins-Browne, amongst others. He participated in the 56th Venice Biennale (curated by Okwui Enwezor) as well as many other large-format perennial exhibitions. Kleinman was previously Curator for North America at KADIST; Editor-in-chief and Adjunct Curator at (FKA) Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art; Agent for Public Programing at dOCUMENTA (13), and is currently the Director of Kunsthall Trondheim.

Renan Laru-an
Director of SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin
8-11 June

Renan Laru-an (b. 1989, Berlin/Sultan Kudarat) is a researcher, curator and the artistic director of SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin. He creates exhibitionary, public, and research programs that study ‘insufficient’ and ‘subtracted’ images or subjects at the juncture of development and integration projects. Laru-an is a founding member of the Philippine Contemporary Art Network (PCAN), a recently initiated public institution for contemporary art temporarily housed at the University of the Philippines Vargas Museum.

Renan has been (co-)curator of the 2nd Biennale Matter of Art, Prague (2022); the 6th Singapore Biennale, Singapore (2019); the 8th OK.Video—Indonesia Media Arts Festival, Jakarta (2017); and other exhibitions.

Laru-an’s scholarship has been supported by the Foundation for Arts Initiatives, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and other fellowships. He was Curatorial Advisor to the 58th Carnegie International.

Laru-an’s visit is organised in collaboration with the Finnish Cultural Institute in the UK and Ireland and the Goethe-Institut Finnland.

Miguel A. López
Curator of Toronto Biennial of Art 2024
11-15 June

Miguel A. López is a writer and curator. In his practice, he focuses on the role of art in politics and public life, collective work and collaborative dynamics, and queer and feminist rewritings of history. He is the Curator for the 2024 edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art. From 2015 to 2020, he worked as Chief curator, and later Co-director at TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica. In 2019, he curated the retrospective exhibition “Cecilia Vicuña: Seehearing the Enlightened Failure” at the Witte de With (now Kunstinstituut Melly), Rotterdam, which travelled to Mexico City, Madrid, and Bogota.. His texts have been published in journals such as Afterall, Artforum, e-flux Journal, Art in America, Journal of Visual Culture, Manifesta Journal. He was a recipient of the 2016 ICI’s Independent Vision Curatorial Award.

Miguel’s visit to Finland is organised in collaboration with the Office for Contemporary Art Norway.

Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás
Curator and Art historian
7-11 June

Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás is a curator and art historian. She has curated exhibitions at institutions of contemporary and media art worldwide since 2006, including at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe), Chronus Art Center (Shanghai), Nam June Paik Art Center (Seoul), and various institutions mainly in Central- and Eastern Europe, taking into consideration the constantly evolving media of contemporary art and its intersections with various disciplines. She has initiated and developed thematic exhibitions raising questions on topical issues such as electronic surveillance and democracy (Global Control and Censorship, 2015-18, with Bernhard Serexhe), the genealogy and social impact of planetary computation and computer code (Open Codes, 2017-21, with Peter Weibel et al.), the notion of computer-generated space (Spatial Affairs, 2021-23, with Giulia Bini), the social and political implications of immersion (Immerse!, 2023, with Corina Apostol).

As of 2019 she has done research in curatorial studies on the “virtual condition” and its implications in the exhibition space at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. She is also the initiator and head of the international collaboration project Beyond Matter at ZKM | Karlsruhe, in which institutions such as Aalto University, Centre Pompidou, Paris, EPFL Pavilions, Lausanne, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Tallinn Art Hall and Tirana Art Lab participate.

Nolasco-Rózsás’s visit is organised in collaboration with the Finnish Cultural Institute in the UK and Ireland and the Goethe-Institut Finnland.

Storm Janse van Rensburg
Head of Curatorial Affairs, Zeitz MOCAA Cape Town
7-11 June

Storm Janse van Rensburg (b.1972, South Africa) is a curator of contemporary art who has worked in a South African and international context for the past 25 years. He currently serves as Senior Curator and Head of Curatorial Affairs at Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa. He started his career at the Market Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg (1995 – 1999) and served as curator of the KwaZulu Natal Society of the Arts in Durban (2000 – 2006). He was a founding member of the Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA) and senior curator at Goodman Gallery Cape Town (2007 – 2012). He lived and worked in Berlin, Germany (2012 – 2015) as an independent curator and researcher. He was a fellow of the Academy for Advanced African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany (2013 – 2015). He served as head curator of exhibitions at the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Savannah, U.S.A. (2015 – 2019), where he oversaw a robust exhibitions program. He has edited and written for several exhibition catalogues and contributed to African Arts Journal, Art South Africa, Metropolis M, Canvas and Contemporary And magazines amongst others, and was editor of the monograph Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence (2020). He recently co-edited Home is Where the Art is: Art Own and Made by the People of Cape Town, a 500-page book chronicling the groundbreaking 2020 Zeitz MOCAA exhibition of over 1600 artists. He is the curator of the site-specific commission for the atrium of Zeitz MOCAA, The Five Continents of All Our Desires by Joël Andrianomearisoa amongst other projects.

Farzaneh Soleimani
Curator and Director of Hoorshid Artist residency
Interdisciplinary artist
6-12 June

Farzaneh Soleimani is an interdisciplinary artist from Iran. She has a bachelor’s degree in cultural heritage and a master’s degree in contemporary arts and doctorate in art research. Currently, Farzaneh is teaching in the university and has some voluntary activities as a researcher and facilitator of the Iranian Women Entrepreneurs Association, especially in local communities. Also she works as an independent manager and curator in her own art residency in a village.

Johan Gustavsson
Curator and educator, 1646, The Hague
11-13 May

Johan Gustavsson (b. 1978, Stockholm) is a curator and educator based in The Hague, The Netherlands. Gustavsson is a Co-director and Curator at 1646 , Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Co-founder of Alternative Art Guide and The Hague Contemporary and head of the board at Page Not Found.

Gustavsson curates the large-scale exhibitions Prospects for the Mondriaan Fund from 2020-2023 at the Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam, in conjunction with Art Rotterdam. Gustavsson further worked as a Cultural Ambassador for the city of The Hague and has curated several international exhibitions.

Gustavsson’s focus is on artistic practices that use strategies such as fictioning, complicating and humour in order to generate dialogue or to propose alternative points of view. The notion is that fiction is an essential instrument to help imagine the world differently. In the same light, embracing and celebrating complexity, contradiction and paradox – as inherent qualities of human existence – are essential to weigh up against the predominance of rationality and logic. Finally, using playfulness and humour as tools is needed to maintain an open attitude.

Gustavsson’s visit is organised in collaboration with Uniarts Helsinki, the Artists’ Association of Finland and HAM – Helsinki Art Museum.

Oliva Aherne
Curator, Chisenhale Gallery
11-14 May

Olivia Aherne is a curator from and based in London. She currently works as the curator at Chisenhale Gallery, London where she devises and delivers an annual programme of new artist commissions. Prior to Chisenhale Gallery, she worked as curator at Nottingham Contemporary developing new commissions by Carolyn Lazard, Meriem Bennani and Mélanie Matranga.

Aherne co-founded The Department of Love, a commissioning body which is currently publishing a series of Love Letters – epistolary commissions by international artists and writers. She’s developed independent curatorial projects for Nir Altman, Munich; Art Night, London; SAFA, Shanghai amongst others, and in 2018 she was awarded the NEON Curatorial Award in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery, London.

Aherne’s visit is organised in collaboration with The Finnish Cultural Institute in the UK and Ireland, Uniarts Helsinki, the Artists’ Association of Finland and HAM – Helsinki Art Museum.

Kasia Redzisz
Artistic Director at Kanal – Centre Pompidou
17-29 March

Kasia Redzisz is Artistic Director at Kanal – Centre Pompidou in Brussels. Prior to joining Kanal she served as Senior Curator at Tate Liverpool, where she was responsible for the programme and international collaborations. Between 2008 and 2015 she worked as curator at Tate Modern. At the same time, between 2008 and 2015, she was Director of Open Art Projects, an organisation dedicated to innovative art commissions. Her independent work includes many interdisciplinary projects, most recently the inaugural exhibition of Muzeum Susch (2019) and the fourth edition of the Art Encounters Biennial (2021). She is an author of books, editor of exhibition catalogues and contributor to magazines such as Frieze, Mousse and Tate Etc. Redzisz’s curatorial practice reflects her commitment to equality, experimentation and to establishing transnational dialogues between artistic practices stemming from diverse geographies.

Kasia Redzisz’s visit to Helsinki is organised in collaboration with the Finnish Painters’ Union and the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux.