Public Lecture: 'Curating as a -Ing Form' – MARTI MANEN

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The Department of Visual Culture is pleased to welcome MARTI MANEN, Director of the Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation for a public lecture as part of our module's 'LABORATORY OF POSTHUMANIST ARCHITECTURE'. Students and lecturers, as well as all interested guests from outside, are cordially invited.
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This lecture will observe the curatorial as a work in process testing identity, structural questions, temporalities, and performativity. A series of possibilities for curatorial approaches to contemporary art practice both within independent and institutional frameworks will be presented and discussed.

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MARTI MANEN is Director of INDEX - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm. He has curated exhibitions at the Museo de Historia Natural (Mexico City), Aara (Bangkok), Sala Rekalde (Bilbao), Konsthall C (Stockholm), CA2M (Madrid), and Fundació Miró (Barcelona).
MANEN was the curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, and curated Momentum10 (Biennale in Moss, Norway, 2019). In the 1990s, he curated five years of exhibitions in his room located in a student flat.

MANEN has published books including Salir de la exposición (Leaving the Exhibition) (Consonni), Contarlo todo sin saber cómo (Telling everything not knowing how) (CA2M), and When Lines Are Time (Miró Foundation Barcelona).