Visitors 2018

Stephanie Seidel is Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami). Seidel has curated a number of exhibitions for ICA Miami, among others solo presentations of Thomas Bayrle, Tomm El-Saieh, Diamond Stingily, Sondra Perry, Louise Bourgeois and Edward and Nancy Kienholz. Forth coming exhibitions at ICA Miami include a survey for artist Judy Chicago.

Before joining ICA Miami, Seidel was a curator at the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Germany, as well as for the commissioning project “25/25/25” for the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf, where she worked with contemporary artists, such as Neïl Beloufa, Sam Lewitt, Ken Okiishi, Pamela Rosenkranz, and Tercerunquinto. She also founded the project space Between Arrival & Departure in Düsseldorf, where she organized commissions by Sam Anderson, Olga Balema, Studio for Propositional Cinema and Cooper Jacoby, among others.

Christina Lehnert is curator at Portikus, Frankfurt/Main. Prior to Portikus, she served as the interim director at Kunstverein Braunschweig in 2017. From 2015–2016 she was given a curatorial grant at Gebert Stiftung für Kultur in Switzerland, where she realized various group and solo exhibitions. Collaborations in the solo and group exhibitions included artists such as Thea Djordjadze, Georgia Sagri, Hanne Lippard, Gabriel Kuri, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Hannah Black, Mathis Altman, Aude Pariset, Jan Vorisek and Alicia Frankreich, et al.

In the past, she was a curatorial assistant at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and Kunsthalle Bielefeld. She received an MA in art history from Humboldt University in Berlin with a focus on the media image in contemporary art.

Robin Clark is Director of the Artist Initiative at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she leads interdisciplinary collection research projects that involve deep engagements with living artists. An art historian and curator whose work has long encompassed intersections of contemporary art and architecture, she is also founding editor of VoCA Journal, an online platform for artists and their collaborators. Prior to joining SFMOMA she worked as an independent curator contributing essays to comprehensive catalogues on artists including John McCracken (Zwirner, 2013) and Robert Overby (Mousse, 2014). She was curator of the Currents exhibition series at the Saint Louis Art Museum where she showed new work by Matthew Buckingham, Ellen Gallagher, Isaac Julien, Julie Mehretu, Rivane Neueschwander, and Neo Rauch, among others (2002-2007). Her more recent exhibitions with accompanying publications include Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art (Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2009) and Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, (part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time Initiative, 2011). She contributed to the catalogue for the exhibition, Mary Corse: A Survey in Light (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2018) and is the author of the first monograph on Larry Bell (Rizzoli, 2018). Clark earned degrees in Art History from Smith College (BA), Boston University (MA) and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (PhD).

Sumesh Sharma is an artist, curator and writer. He co-founded the Clark House Initiative in Bombay in 2010. His practice is informed by alternate art histories that often include cultural perspectives informed by socio-economics and politics. Immigrant Culture in the Francophone, Vernacular Equalities of Modernism, Movements of Black Consciousness in Culture are his areas of interest.

Dasom Suh is an artist and independent artistic director. In her undergraduate studies she majored in ceramics, while majoring in art education in the graduate school. She worked as an educator in Seoul. Since her arrival in Gwangju, she has been a member of the Mite-Ugro, a local association of curators and artists. She worked as a project manager under the 2016 Gwangju Biennale. In 2017, she had an artist-in-residency programme at the Crater ​Invertido in Mexico City focusing on Mexican-Korean culinary exchange projects. She curated the exhibition of the Korean artist Yunwook Moon in Gwangju and the exhibition of the Mexican artist Jaime Ruiz in Seoul, together with whom she also collaborated on a culinary project in Hong Kong.

Gabriel Mestre Arrioja is a writer, artist, filmmaker and independent curator. Mestre Arrioja works with non-linear projects to generate different epistemological production that reunites artistic practices, the knowledge of the indigenous people of Mexico and the First Nations of the Americas with the history of the avant-garde art movements and notions from critical thinking. His projects are to find different schemes of participation and collaboration with individuals and groups alienated by Capitalism and other production systems, promoting, among other things: aims of decolonialization, the exercise of institutional criticism and civil rights empowerment and the building of alternative and solidarity economies. Since 2002, he has managed several projects as independent, self-supported or freelance curator. His achievements have been developed mostly in the fields of contemporary art and visual culture but also within anthropology and the environmental science. He has collaborated with selected institutions (public, private and personal ones) in Europe and Asia, as well as in the Americas, running his exhibitions, publications and public programs in a number of countries such as: Iceland, Japan, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Cuba, Colombia and Mexico. Recently, his curatorial research, mediation and management of projects have been benefited by different international grants, programs and institutions, such as: Danish Art Foundation, IASPIS, FRAME, CCA Estonia, CAC Vilnius, Icelandic Art Center, IFA, Goethe Institute, Austrian Cultural Forum and Jumex Foundation, among others. He is the founder of the Curatorial Residency In Mexico (CRIMEX), the project space Surplus Int. and the non-profit organization Artenación.

Tom Trevor is Artistic Director of the Atlantic Project, leading on the development of a new international biennial festival of contemporary art for the South West of England, in the lead-up to the Mayflower 400 anniversary in 2020. He is also Guest Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. Previously he was Artistic Director of the 4th Dojima River Biennale in Osaka, Japan (2014-15), curatorial consultant to the 1st ARoS Triennial in Aarhus, Denmark (2014-15), Guest Curator at the Devi Art Foundation in Delhi, India (2013-14), Director of Arnolfini in Bristol, UK (2005-13), Associate Curator of the Art Fund International collection (2007-12) and Director of Spacex in Exeter, UK (1999-2005).

As a champion of experimental emerging practice, Trevor has curated more than 100 projects, including numerous early career shows of artists as well as first UK exhibitions of renowned international figures such as Maria Thereza Alves, Cosima von Bonin, Matti Braun, Tania Bruguera, Meschac Gaba, Doris Salcedo, Do Ho Suh, Joelle Tuerlinckx, Lois Weinberger and Haegue Yang, amongst others. He has curated numerous group exhibitions and led on large-scale international initiatives (e.g. introducing Japanese audiences to the work of artists such as Melanie Gilligan, Michael Stevenson, Hito Steyerl and SUPERFLEX for the first time). He also has experience of interdisciplinary programming, including performance art, experimental music, dance, film, digital and online projects.

Trevor’s recent curated projects include 'Music for Museums' (a series of performances, film screenings and sound interventions) throughout the Whitechapel Gallery (2015-16); the 4th Dojima River Biennale in Osaka (2015), entitled 'Take Me To The River' (with artists from eight countries showing alongside emerging and established practitioners from Japan); 'Black Sun' at the Devi Art Foundation in Delhi (2013) (including leading artists from the South Asian diaspora); and Joelle Tuerlinckx’s 'Wor(l)d(k) in Progress?' at Arnolfini (2013) (developed in collaboration with Wiels, Brussels, and Haus der Kunst, Munich). Major commissions he worked on in 2015 include John Akomfrah’s 'Vertigo Sea' for the 56th Venice Biennale (Associate Producer) and 'New York City Apartment / Bristol' by Do Ho Suh for the Art Fund International collection.

Vincenzo de Bellis is Curator of Visual Arts at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. At Walker he has recently organised exhibitions such as 'Nairy Baghramian: Deformation Professionelle' (2017) and 'I am you, You are too' (2017). He has also served as Coordinating Curator for Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World (2017). He is currently working on 'Illusion Brought me Here', a survey exhibition by Mexican Artist Mario Garcia Torres, scheduled to open at Walker, October 24, 2018 and then touring to Wiels, Brussels in May 2019. Prior to joining the Walker in 2016, De Bellis was director and curator of Peep-Hole Art Center in Milan, which he co-founded in 2009. There he produced a range of exhibitions with artists including Mario García Torres, Uri Aran, Paolo Gioli, Ahmet Ogut, Andra Ursuta, Renata Lucas, Paolo Icaro, Pavel Buchler, Gabriel Sierra, Francesco Arena, Rosalind Nashashibi, and Trisha Baga, as well as publications with Jimmie Durham, Liam Gillick, Chistodolous Panayioutu, Alejandro Cesarco, Dora Garcia, Judith Hopf, Seth Price and Paul Sietsema. In 2015 De Bellis curated Ennesima, an Exhibition of Seven Exhibitions on Italian Art at Triennale di Milano and a solo exhibition by Betty Woodman at ICA, London and Museo Marino Marini, Florence. He has also held the position of Artistic Director of the International Fair of Modern and Contemporary Art in Milan since 2012. Previously de Bellis held curatorial roles at Museion, Bolzano, where he also guest-curated a survey show 'Soft Information in Your Hard Facts' by Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri and GAMeC, Bergamo. De Bellis holds a Master of Arts in Curatorial Studies from Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. He is a contributor to numerous exhibition catalogues and art publications, including Artforum.com and Mousse Magazine.