Over the past few decades, the wall between the public and commercial sectors of the international art world has become increasingly permeable. Museum curators have been joining galleries, and galleries have been helping to realize ambitious projects for their artists at museums. Meanwhile, private museums have been hosting essential exhibitions and performing important scholarship while collaborating with their public peers. Opportunities abound in these partnerships, as do challenges and potential conflicts of interest.
On this panel, three of today’s leading curators will discuss how they have worked across the public-private divide, how the dynamic functions in different countries and at various institutions, and how they see such collaborations evolving in the coming years.
The panellists are Lumi Tan, a former curator at the New York nonprofit the Kitchen in New York who was the curatorial director of Luna Luna, a traveling art amusement park from 1987 that was recently restaged to high acclaim; Kim Sung woo, a veteran curator in Seoul who leads the freethinking alternative space Primary Practice in the city; and Daisy Nam, who earlier this year became director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, after serving as curator of the revered Ballroom Marfa museum in that storied Texas town.
Moderator: Andrew Russeth (Editor, Artnet News)
Panel:
Lumi Tan (Independent Curator)
Daisy Nam (Director & Chief Curator, CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art)
Sung woo Kim (Curator, Primary Practice)