IN-CONVERSATION STARTS AT 2PM
Join us for an in-conversation with Sydney-based, Malaysian artist Simryn GILL, curator and art historian, Catherine de Zegher, and ArtReview's Editor-in-Chief, Mark Rappolt.
This discussion takes place within the framework of Gill's exhibition, Shelter, at Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, which is curated by de Zegher and spans works across photography, works on paper and sculpture from the last six years.
This event has limited capacity.
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About Catherine de Zegher
Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Catherine de Zegher was the Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Gent (Belgium). In 2020 she retired and founded the International Charity Embrace: Space for Art, Creation, and Regeneration (www.embracespace.org). In 2012, she was the Artistic Director of the 18th Biennale of Sydney, Australia, and in 2013 of the 5th Moscow Biennale, Russia. She curated the Australian Pavilion (Simryn Gill) at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and the Belgian Pavilion (Thierry De Cordier) at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997. In the Department of Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, she co-curated with Cornelia Butler the large-scale exhibition On Line. Drawing through the Twentieth Century (2010-2011).
From 2008-2009, de Zegher was the Director of Exhibitions and Publications at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. Previous to this position, from 1999-2006, she was for many years the Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Drawing Center in New York. Before de Zegher took up her career in North America, she was the co-founder and Director of the Kanaal Art Foundation in Kortrijk, Belgium (1988-1998).
De Zegher is the curator of many acclaimed historical and contemporary exhibitions, such as America: Bride of the Sun. 500 Years of Latin America and the Low Countries (1992) at the Royal Museum of Fine Art, Antwerp, and Inside the Visible. An Elliptical Traverse of Twentieth-Century Art in, of, and from the Feminine (1994-1996) at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Several of her projects and books promote the feminine principle. In the last twenty years, de Zegher has received Best Show awards from AICA and AAMC.
Author and editor of numerous books on modern and contemporary artists, one of her publications is the October Book Women Artists at the Millennium co-edited with Carol Armstrong (MIT Press). In 2014, de Zegher published Women’s Work Is Never Done, an anthology of her collected essays on the work of contemporary women artists. Most recently, in 2020-22, she published a sequel to Inside the Visible, for its 25th Anniversary, in a Dutch mook
(magazine/book) SeeAllThis #20, followed by SeeAllThis #28 about women and the 5 elements (ecofeminism).
About Mark Rappolt
Mark Rappolt is the Editor-in-Chief of ArtReview. He founded its sister publication, ArtReview Asia, in 2013. His writing has appeared in a number of publications, ranging from The Times and Die Zeit to i-D and Citizen K, and includes exhibition catalogues on artists such as Yuko Mohri and Liu Xiaodong. Books include monographs on architects Greg Lynn and Frank Gehry.
Exhibitions include Like a Moth to a Flame (2017), cocurated with Tom Eccles and Liam Gillick), a two-part exhibition at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and the OGR, Turin; Now or Never (2018) at Galerie Crone, Vienna; Sometimes You’re the Hammer; Sometimes You’re the Nail (2019) and Zhu Jia: Faraway Friends (2020) both at Modern Art Base, Shanghai; Before the Cockerel Crows (2021), cocurated with Tom Eccles and Liam Gillick at the Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene; the touring show Breaking the Waves (2021) at the chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai and the K11 MUSEA, Hong Kong; and One Tiger or Another (2022) cocurated with Tom Eccles, at Mathaf, Doha.
