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Free for students and faculty
RSVP to info@giornopoetrysystems.org from your .edu email address and specify which day you plan to attend.
Note on accessibility: this event is supported by a live TypeWell transcriber.
Day 1, Saturday, May 3, 2025, 10am – 3pm
Day 2, Sunday May 4, 2025, 1pm – 6pm
Full daily schedule and more information here.
Co-hosted with Artists Space
What happens to exhibitions when artists are the curators?
When artists curate, 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 are the benefits, and the risks, involved with an exhibition that centers an artist’s perspective on other artists? 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 other artists—and so every year, we convene 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 second annual 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 Hayoung Chung, Do Tuong Linh, Audrey Min, Andrew Suggs, and Javier Villanueva.
The 2025 conference reflects on artist-curated exhibitions via five case studies:
Against Nature, curated by Dennis Cooper and Richard Hawkins (LACE, Los Angeles, 1989)
Homeland: A Palestinian Quest curated by Yong Soon Min and Shirin Neshat (Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, 1989; Restaged at Subtitled NYC in 2024)
TransEuphoria, curated by Chloe Dzublio and Jeffrey Greene (Umbrella Arts, New York, 2011)
Activating Captions, curated by Christine Sun Kim and Niels Von Tomme (online, hosted by argos centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels, 2021)
In Our Veins Flow Ink & Fire, curated by Shubigi Rao (5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2022)
Click here for information about the case studies in the inaugural 2024 conference.