Guest: Reto Thüring, Marc Glode, Simon Maurer, Li Zhenhua
Date: 2014-09-01 ~ 2014-09-03
Address: Chronus Art Center (Room101, Bldg18, NO.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai)
This new series invites several professionals who work for institutions. They will talk about the popular issues including museums, curators and art system. Through the encounters with these professionals coming from the mainstream art industry, we could understand better about how to be independent, autonomous, and free. Through the introduction of these institutions and their ways of working, we could take as reference and think about how to push forward the new and experimental arts. And in the same time, we aim to build more healthy institutional culture in the mainland of China.
CAC Encounter is a platform for communication, it wishes to benefit the participants of the growing art system, it bridges between the West and the East, it attempts to think independently and keeping the mainstream in mind, so as for a better future of the art system.
The Encounter Series is co-initiated by Li Zhenhua and CAC. The first three guest speakers are Reto Thuring, Marc Glode and Simon Maurer.
THE ENCOUNTER I
2014/9/1 – 2014/9/3
Chronus Art Center (101 Bldg18, No.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai)
THE ENCOUNTER: Reto Thuring x Li Zhenhua
1st September 2014 | 19:00 – 20:30
THE ENCOUNTER: Marc Gl?de x Li Zhenhua
2nd September 2014 | 19:00 – 20:30
THE ENCOUNTER: Simon Maurer x Li Zhenhua
3rd September 2014 | 19:00 – 20:30
ABOUT GUESTS:
Reto Thüring joined the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2012. He is responsible for overseeing the museum’s collection of contemporary artwork and the programming of exhibitions at the museum and the Transformer Station.
Marc Glode is a film historian and critic who has curated various film series on the subject of film and art. He has authored several publications and has taught at the Free University of Berlin, the Dresden Art Academy, Columbia University, and is currently a lecturer at the ETH Zurich. Marc has curated the Art Basel Film program in Basel since 2008.
Simon Maurer (Born 1964) worked as an artist from 1983 to 1990, as an art critic from 1991 to 2001, as functionary, head of the art department of the City of Zurich from 2001 to 2012, and in museums as a (co)-curator from 1983 to the present. Maurer now is the director of Helmhaus Zürich, Switzerland.
ABOUT MODERATOR:
Li Zhenhua has been active in the artistic field since 1996, his practice mainly concerning curation, art creation and project management. Since 2010 he has been the nominator for the Summer Academy at the Zentrum Paul Klee Bern (CH), as well as for The Prix Pictet (CH). He is a member of the international advisory board for the exhibition "Digital Revolution" to be held at the Barbican Centre in the UK in 2014.
