Guest: Reto Thüring
Date: 2014-09-01 19:00 ~ 2014-09-01 20:30
Address: Chronus Art Center (Room101, Bldg18, NO.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai)
MODERATOR: Li Zhenhua
LANGUAGE: English (with Chinese translation)
Reservations via membership@chronusartcenter.org (please supply your full name, contact information, and the number of people attending)
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 is initiated and curated by Li Zhenhua, one of the first three guest speakers is Reto Thuring from Cleveland Museum of Art.
ABOUT THE GUEST:
Reto Thüring, joined the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2012, where he is responsible for overseeing the Museum’s collection of contemporary artwork and the programming of exhibitions at the Museum and the Transformer Station. Thüring obtained a PhD in art history from the University of Basel in 2011 with a dissertation on Venetian portraiture of the 16th Century. Since 2004, Thüring’s primary focus has been on working with contemporary art and artists as a curator, editor, and art critic. In 2007 he co-founded the association Kunstwollen. In 2008 he joined the exhibition committee of the Kunstraum Riehen where he curated the group exhibitions Tracing Reality (2009), Chasing Dreams (2010), and one-person exhibitions with Emilie Ding, Karin Hueber, Boris Rebetez, and Bernhard Hegglin (2011/2012). He also curated a solo exhibition of works by Josse Bailly (2011), the group shows Wall Floor Piece at the Von Bartha Garage (2011) and Kill All Monsters at the Ausstellungsraum Klingental (2014), and co-curated the group exhibition If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I would spend six sharpening my axe (2012). Recent projects at the Cleveland Museum of Art include installations and solo exhibitions with Martin Creed, Fred Wilson, Janet Cardiff, Ai Weiwei, Damián Ortega, and the group show The Unicorn at Transformer Station. Upcoming exhibitions this year will include a solo exhibition featuring three monumental works by Jennifer Bartlett and the first institutional survey of the career of Julia Wachtel.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR:
Li Zhenhua (CN/CH) has been active in the field of art since 1996. His practice mainly concerns 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. He has edited several artists’ publications (e.g. Yan Lei, Hu Jieming, and Feng Mengbo). A collection of his art reviews was published under the title “Text” in 2013.
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