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Public Talk with curator Pablo José Ramírez

Office for Contemporary Art
Nedre gate 7
Oslo, 0551


As part of our ongoing International Visitor Programme (IVP), we are pleased to host curator and author Pablo José Ramírez and invite you to a public talk at OCA on May 11th titled ‘Ancestrality and the Predicament of the Contemporary’.


Public talk followed by Q&A session.
Free and open to the public, but space is limited.
Please register via Eventbrite

In this talk, Ramírez will set forth an introduction to planetary brown/Indigenous artistic practices that put neo-colonial extractive violence and the liberal reason in crisis. Furthermore, he seeks to think about the paradoxical relationship between contemporary art and indigeneity as a creative entanglement that reshapes the repertoires of art history and museum collections.

Ramírez was the inaugural Adjunct Curator of First Nations and Indigenous Art at Tate Modern (2019-2023) and is currently co-curator with Diana Nawi of the Hammer Museum Biennale, 'Made in LA 2023: Acts of Living'. He was the recipient of the 2019 Independent Curators International/CPPC Award for Central America and the Caribbean and is currently the Editor in Chief and co-founder of Infrasonica, a curatorial platform dedicated to the research around non-western sonic cultures.

Header image: Mercedes Azpilicueta, Molecular Love: (Mestizo) Act 3, part of the exhibition 'Más Allá, el Mar Canta (Beyond, the Sea Sings)', a group exhibition curated by Pablo José Ramírez at Times Art Center Berlin. September 16 – December 19, 2021.

Pablo José Ramírez

Curator
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Pablo José Ramírez is a curator and author living in Berlin. He was the inaugural Adjunct Curator of First Nations and Indigenous Art at Tate Modern (2019-2023). His work explores non-western ontologies, brown and indigenous histories; and the politics of non-colonial aesthetics. He holds an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2015 he co-curated the 19th Bienal Paiz: Trans-visible with Cecilia Fajardo-Hill. Ramírez was the recipient of the 2019 Independent Curators International/CPPC Award for Central America and the Caribbean and is currently the Editor in Chief and co-founder of Infrasonica, a curatorial platform dedicated to the research around non-western sonic cultures. Ramírez has lectured for the Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, MUAC, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin, Gasworks, ParaSite, Kunstintituut Melly and a number of academic institutions, including the University of Cambridge, Simon Fraser University, The New School and The University of Cape Town. He has published extensively including pieces for Artforum, e-flux, Arts of the Working Class, Artishock and a number of museum catalogues and books. Ramírez was part of the curatorial team of the 58th Carnegie International and is currently co-curator with Diana Nawi of the Hammer Museum Biennale, 'Made in LA 2023: Acts of Living'.

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