Master class with Gerardo Mosquera. What you wanted to know about curating but didn’t dare to ask
Date: Saturday, November 16, 2024
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Registration
General: $70,000
Early bird: $63,000 (Until November 3)
Essential Friend: $56,000 | Close Friend: $52,500 | Benefactor Friend: $49,000
Students with ID: $35,000
Format: In-person
The class will provide an introduction to curating, its origin and definition, and to the analysis of the exhibition as a signifying entity in itself, presenting the interrelation between both and some current issues. The exhibition will be addressed as a discursive entity, analyzing its evolution and its artistic, cultural, social, political implications, etc., and its relationship with contexts in today’s world. Additionally, a brief overview will be given of the constellation of aspects that make up curating in its character as a complex, multifaceted activity: sensory, artistic, aesthetic, social, organizational, institutional, communicative, logistical, public relations, and educational.
The class will be based on the specific professional experience of the speaker, reflected in his numerous exhibitions and essays around the world. From this experience, a “curator’s decalogue” will be presented, in which conceptual, ethical, research, discursive, communication, museographic, contextual, practical, and other aspects of the profession will be analyzed.
The class will be dynamic and delivered in clear language. It has been conceived for a broad and diverse audience, which would include colleagues, artists, educators, students, institutional staff, and others interested in the topic. Time will be dedicated to answering questions from attendees.
About Gerardo Mosquera
Independent curator and critic with forty-five years of experience, Gerardo Mosquera is a professor in the Master’s in Curating at the Universidad de Navarra and the Master PHotoESPANA, Madrid. He has taught seminars on curating at universities and institutions in Argentina, Chile, Spain, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, and Vietnam. Co-founder of the Havana Biennial, he has been co-curator of the Johannesburg and Liverpool Biennials, adjunct curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, artistic director of PHotoEspana, Madrid, co-curator of the III Today Documents, Beijing, chief curator of the Poly/Graphic Triennial of San Juan, of the Paiz Art Biennial, Guatemala, and has organized numerous international exhibitions worldwide. Author of several books and more than 700 texts in publications from many countries. Advisor to the Academy of Fine Arts of the State of the Netherlands and other institutions. Member of the boards of various international magazines and art centers. He has organized and participated in multiple international symposia and given lectures and seminars at universities and other institutions in some one hundred cities. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship, New York.