Thursday, 28 March 2024
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Art Central Hong Kong 2024
Central Harbourfront, Hong Kong

Curating as Collaborative Practice: Presenting South-East Asia and beyond in the context of Middle East

Presented by Asia Society Hong Kong Center, this talk will be bringing Alia and Amal’s experience, as co-curators of the Sharjah Biennial, in initiating conversation with artists from different contexts and geopolitical situations, focusing on the practice of collaboration and working together, especially for trans-national connection that involves Southeast Asian artists to be engaged within the broader landscape, especially in the Middle east.

Speakers: Sharjah Biennial 16 co-curators Alia Swastika (Director of the Biennale Jogja Foundation, Yogyakarta) and Amal Khalaf (Director, Cubitt, London and Curator at Large, Public Practice, Serpentine Galleries, London)

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Friday, 29 March 2024
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Art Basel Hong Kong
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre

How to Build a Biennial Together  

Biennials are reimagining curating as an exercise of working together by inviting curators and artists to collaborate on developing exhibitions. The Istanbul Biennial and Thailand Biennale are recent examples, with the Sharjah Biennial in 2025 led by five curators, one of whom is an artist. How do these collaborations expand the artist-curator relationship in the process?

Speakers: Gridthiya Gaweewong (Artistic Director, The Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok and Co-Artistic Director of Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai 2023), Amar Kanwar (Co-Curator of the 2022 Istanbul Biennial) and Rirkrit Tiravanija (Artistic Director of Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai 2023)

Moderated by Sharjah Biennial 16 co-curators Alia Swastika (Director of the Biennale Jogja Foundation, Yogyakarta) and Amal Khalaf (Director, Cubitt, London and Curator at Large, Public Practice, Serpentine Galleries, London)

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