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Public Talk with Frances Morris, Director Emerita of Tate Modern

As part of our ongoing International Visitor Programme (IVP), we are pleased to host Director Emerita of Tate Modern, Frances Morris, and invite you to a public talk at OCA on 13th June titled ‘Tate Modern: curating the civic’.

During the talk, Morris will explore various recent initiatives to respond to and engage with audiences in new ways, seeking renewed 'relevance' against a background of contested histories, intersecting crises and agendas of access and inclusion. Morris will then be joined in discussion with Anne Szefer Karlsen, Programme Director for MA Curatorial Practice at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen.

Frances' visit to Norway is arranged in collaboration with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in London.

Public talk followed by Q&A session
Free and open to the public, but space is limited

Photo: Frances Morris in the Tate Modern Community Garden (2022). Photo: Samia Meah.

Frances Morris is a curator, writer, and broadcaster and currently Director Emerita, Tate Modern. She was previously Director Tate Modern until February 2023. Prior roles include Director International Collections, Tate 2006 - 2016 and Head of Displays, Tate Modern 2000 - 2006. Over a long period, she has transformed the way the collection is installed at Tate moving from a chronological to thematic framework and broadened the collection to include multiple international and transnational perspectives. She has been a champion of women artists and more recently worked hard to explore and represent first nation artists within the collection an programme at Tate. Major exhibitions include landmark surveys of Louise Bourgeois and Yayoi Kusama. Her most recent exhibition, on view at Tate Modern is Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life, co curated with Briony Fer and Nabila Abdel Nabi. Frances holds a BA from Cambridge University and an MA from the Courtauld Institute. She was born and educated in London. Frances is an Honorary fellow of Kings' College Cambridge and a Guest professor at Shanghai Academy of Fine Art.

Anne Szefer Karlsen

Programme Director for MA Curatorial Practice at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen.
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Anne Szefer Karlsen is a curator, writer, editor and educator. They is Professor of Curatorial Practice and currently programme director for MA Curatorial Practice at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen (2015–to date) and was Senior Adviser and Head of Research for Bergen Assembly (2018–2020) and Director of Hordaland Art Centre in Bergen, Norway (2008–2014)

Szefer Karlsen’s curatorial practice spans museum exhibitions, biennials, group and solo exhibitions as well as discursive events, gathering communities of professionals together. Their most recent exhibition was the international group exhibition ‘Experiences of Oil’, Stavanger Art Museum, November 2021–April 2022. They has convened of several large-scale international discursive programmes, such as ‘Humans of the Institution’ (co-curated with Vivian Ziherl) at Veem House for performance, Amsterdam 25–27 November 2017. They was curator for Lofoten International Art Festival – LIAF 2013 (with Bassam el Baroni and Eva González- Sancho) and Associate Curator for Research and Encounters for Biennale Bénin 2012 – ‘Inventer le monde: l’artiste citoyen’ (artistic director: Abdellah Karroum).

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