Meet the jurors for the 2016 curator’s residency grant in New York

 

 

Luigi Fassi is Visual Art Curator at the steirischer herbst festival in Graz, Austria. He was the Director of ar/ge kunst Galerie Museum in Bolzano, Italy (2009-12), where he curated, amongst other, monographic exhibitions of Runo Lagomarsino, Chto Delat?, Mark Boulos, William E. Jones, Eva Kotatkova, Alejandro Cesarco. A Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (2008-09), he has organized several exhibitions internationally, including “Forms of Distancing”, steiricher herbst, Graz, 2014, “Liquid Assets”, steirischer herbst, Graz 2013, ‘Artscape: Italy’, Galeri Vartaj, Vilnius (2010); ‘Theoretical Practice’, ISCP, New York (2009); ‘Archeology of Mind’, Konstmuseum, Malmö (2008); ‘Baltic Mythologies’, Prague Biennale 3, Prague (2007); and ‘In Search of the Miraculous’, V Triennial of Finland, Kunsthalle, Helsinki (2007). Fassi has written extensively for publications such as Mousse, Artforum, Klat Magazine, and is a co-author of “Clement Greenberg. L’avventura del modernismo” (Johan & Levi, 2011) and “Time Out of Joint: Recall and Evocation in Recent Art” (Yale University Press, 2009). Since 2010 he curates Present Future at Artissima Turin.

 

 

 

Jessamyn Fiore is a New York based curator and writer as well the co-director of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark. She is the curator of the Jean-Paul Najar Foundation in Dubai, UAE, opening in March 2016 with its inaugural exhibition Jean-Paul Najar: Vision & Legacy. She was the Director of Thisisnotashop, a not for profit gallery space in Dublin, from 2007-2010. She received a Masters in contemporary art theory, practice, and philosophy from The National College of Art and Design, Dublin, in 2009. Exhibitions curated include 112 Greene Street: The Early Years (1970–1974) at David Zwirner in New York (2011), which led to her editing the critically acclaimed, eponymous catalogue, published by David Zwirner and Radius Books (2012); and a second exhibition for David Zwirner New York titled Gordon Matta-Clark: Above and Below (2013). Her original one-act play Blast from The Past, based on the writings of Robert Smithson and Gordon Matta-Clark, was published in 2014 by the Bureau for Open Culture. She has formerly been a partner at Rawson Projects gallery on the Lower East Side. Her upcoming exhibitions include Liz Nielsen/Max Warsh at Sirius Arts Centre in Cork, Ireland (June 2016) and Gordon Matta-Clark: The Anarcitect at the Bronx Museum, New York (February 2017).

 

 

 

Niels Van Tomme is a New York-based curator, researcher, and critic working on the intersections of contemporary culture, politics, and aesthetics. Currently associated with the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at UMBC in Baltimore, he is the appointed curator of the 7th Bucharest Biennale, 2016. His exhibitions and public programs are shown at venues such as The Kitchen (New York), Värmlands Museum (Karlstad), National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans), Gallery 400 (Chicago), and Akademie der Künste (Berlin). A Contributing Editor of Art Papers, Van Tomme publishes internationally in journals, magazines, and exhibition catalogues. His books include Where Do We Migrate To? (2011), Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen (2014), and, most recently, Aesthetic Justice: Intersecting Artistic and Moral Perspectives (2015), co-edited with Pascal Gielen.

 

 

 

Kari Conte is a New York-based curator and writer. Since 2010, she has been the Director of Programs and Exhibitions at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP). At ISCP, she leads residencies, exhibitions, and public programs in which she collaborates with more than a hundred artists each year. Previously, she worked at Whitechapel Gallery, London and received an MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art. She has curated or organized over thirty international exhibitions, site-specific commissions and performances including contributions to the Aichi Triennale and Performa Biennial. She has given recent talks at institutions including Art in General, Bard College, Creative Time, Goethe-Institut, Independent Curators International (ICI), Ludwig Museum, SUNY Purchase College, and Sharjah Art Foundation and is the editor and an author for the monograph Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Seven Work Ballets, published by Sternberg Press in 2015.