Curators-in-residence at CCS Bard

2009-2010

The Center for Curatorial Studies' curator-in-residence program allows visiting curators to spend from one semester to two years at the Center working with students in the graduate program, as well as organizing exhibitions for the CCS Bard Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art.  Curators-in-residence at CCS Bard for the 2009-2010 academic year are Anke Bangma and Ana Paula Cohen.

Ana Paula Cohen (São Paulo, 1975) is an independent curator, editor and writer. She was the adjunct curator of the 28th Bienal de São Paulo – “In living contact” (Oct-Dez 2008), and the co-editor of the publications related to the project. Cohen has co-curated the project Encuentro Internacional de Medellín 07 (Jan-June 2007, Medellín, Colombia), in which she created, in collaboration with other artists and curators, a new center for contemporary art – La Casa del Encuentro. Within the framework of the Encuentro, she curated an exhibition on Cildo Meireles’ work, at the Museo de Antioquia. Since 2006, she has initiated and is part of the editorial team for the newsletter of Mabe Bethonico’s project museumuseu. In 2005, she curated the show “Subversiones diarias," invited by the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, MALBA. Since 2004, she co-founded and has been the curator of the project istmo – flexible archive, in São Paulo, built in collaboration with artists such as Erick Beltrán, Mabe Bethônico, and Angela Detânico & Rafael Lain. Ana Paula has been a contributor to several art magazines, such as Frieze, ArtNexus and Exit Express, and has written to many art publications, concerning the work of artists such as Goldin & Senneby, Javier Penãfiel, Rosangela Rennó and Oscar Muñoz, and Cildo Meireles. Cohen has organized many conferences and series of talks, from which the most recent is “History as a flexible matter: artistic practices and new systems of reading” (Nov 2008). Cohen’s residency is made possible through a generous grant from the Diane and Bruce T. Halle Family Foundation.

Anke Bangma is a cultural theorist, editor and independent curator based in Rotterdam. As assistant curator at Witte de With, Rotterdam, from 1993-1998, Bangma worked with artists such as Craigie Horsfield and David Lamelas. From 1999-2007 Bangma was course director of the Fine Art programme at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, where she put together an annually changing program of thematic projects with a range of practitioners, including artists Babak Afrassiabi & Nasrin Tabatabai, Bik Van der Pol, Sarah Pierce, Hinrich Sachs and Milica Tomic; theater director Emil Hrvatin; curators Annie Fletcher, Maria Hlavajova, Maria Lind and Tracey Warr; publisher Christoph Keller; and theorists Maaike Bleeker, Dorothea von Hantelmann and Jan Verwoert. As an extension to the MA course, Bangma realized a public program of lectures and exhibitions in collaboration with TENT Center for Visual Art in Rotterdam, and a series of publications in collaboration with Revolver. Since 2004, she has also been Associate Professor at the Kunsthøgskolen in Bergen, Norway. The publications Bangma edited include The Projection (BAK Basis voor Aktuele Kunst, 2003); Looking, Encountering, Staging (PZI & Revolver, 2005); Experience, Memory, Reenactment (with Steve Rushton and Florian Wüst, PZI & Revolver, 2005); Resonant Bodies, Voices, Memories (with Deirdre M. Donoghue, Lina Issa and Katarina Zdjelar. PZI & Revolver Publishing, 2008); and Katarina Zdjelar: But if you take my voice, what will be left to me (Museum for Contemporary Art Belgrade/Serbian Pavilion of the 53rd Venice Biennial, 2009). Currently, she is engaged in Performing Evidence, a research project that explores the role of visual practices in the actualization of certain social scenarios. The project resulted in an exhibition of contemporary art works as well as documents from the early human sciences at SMART Project Space, Amsterdam in 2009. During her residency at Bard CCS, Bangma will continue her work on this project with a series of conversations with New York based artists, and develop the concept for a new book project. Bangma’s residency is made possible through a partnership with the Fonds Voor Beeldende Kunsten, a non-profit arts initiative based in Amsterdam.

 

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