"The new series “Positions in the Contemporary Art World” offers students insight into three important roles that make up the dynamics of today’s contemporary art world.

In the first event in this series, Gina Buenfeld-Murley, Curator at Camden Arts Centre, London, speaks to Nadia Berri about her role as a curator, experience – and gives exclusive insight into the group show The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and The Cosmic Tree (2020).

https://camdenartcentre.org/

Event format

In a conversational format and over three Monday evenings, artist and consultant lecturer Nadia Berri will lead and choreograph discussions with these essential players and students will get a rare glimpse into the realities and activities as well as the different pathways of these three roles: the Curator, the Gallerist, the Artist.

All sessions will culminate in a 15-minute open forum where students can join the conversation with their own questions."

Lecture Date And Fees

Monday, 22 Feb 2021

6:00 p.m. GMT

(1:00 p.m. EST / 10:00 a.m. PST)

Price: £45

What is the Lecture Series?

We passionately believe that art is meant to inspire us all. That is why we designed this special lecture series, designed to give you a grounding in a range of subjects from a variety of leading art industries. Delivered by industry experts and Sotheby's specialists, these oe hour lectures will be streamed live, via Zoom, to be enjoyed from home. These courses will introduce the Institute's expertise, and showcase our virtual programme, to those who want to find stimulation in an enjoyable, engaging and flexible way.

Event speakers

Gina Buenfeld-Murley is Exhibitions Curator at Camden Art Centre, London where she has curated The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and The Cosmic Tree (2020) A Tale of Mother’s Bones: Grace Pailthorpe, Reuben Mednikoff and the Birth of Psychorealism (2019); Wong Ping, Heart Digger (2019); Joachim Koester, In the Face of Overwhelming Forces (2017); João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Papagaio (2015); Bonnie Camplin (2016) and Rose English (2016). She has organised exhibitions with the estates of Eva Hesse, Hanne Darboven, Pino Pascali and Dieter Roth. Recent independent curatorial projects include Gäa: Holistic Science and Wisdom Tradition, Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange, Cornwall, and Origin Story, The Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland (both 2019). In 2017 she participated in the HIAP Curatorial Programme in Helsinki and Since has been researching the place of plants within indigenous cultures in Europe and South America, including field research in Finnish Lapland (Samí shamanism) and extended periods in the Colombian, Peruvian and Brazilian areas of the Amazon Rainforest. She has spent time with the Shipibo, Kukama, Yawanawa and Ticuna peoples, learning about their indigenous poetics and the function of abstract art and music in facilitating communication between the animal and plant kingdoms. Between 2014-18 she established Tokyo Correspondence, a series of exhibitions, residencies and research visits in partnership with Arts Initiative Tokyo (AIT) that facilitated cultural dialogue between artists in the UK and Japan culminating in a residency and exhibition at CAC with acclaimed Japanese artist Yuko Mohri. In 2015 she curated At the Still Point of the Turning World at Shibaura House Tokyo, featuring work by Manon de Boer; Joachim Koester; Simon Martin; Ursula Mayer; Jeremy Millar; Sriwhana Spong; Jesse Wine; and Caroline Achaintre. She was previously Director at Alison Jacques Gallery, London.

Nadia Berri is a Swiss mixed-media artist and artist educator based in London. She teaches at institutions such as Tate, Bow Arts, Frieze, the Royal College of Art and Parasol Unit. Before dedicating her time to her own artistic practice and teaching, she has worked in the contemporary commercial art world for over ten years. Nadia’s approach is collaborative and interactive. She encourages students to combine their own knowledge, cultural, social and geographical backgrounds with the art history she teaches and thus develops her students’ confidence in looking, understanding and talking about contemporary art. Over the past decade she has curated and participated in a variety of exhibitions and projects in the UK and abroad and she is the instigator of HOUSERULES – a platform for spontaneous artistic experimentation in a nomadic state.

www.nadiaberri.com

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