Cultural Policy & Curatorship: Perspectives from Switzerland

Cultural Policy & Curatorship: Perspectives from Switzerland by Sabine Schaschl, Director and Curator, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel and Mirjam Varadinis Curator, Kunsthaus Zurich. [dated January 2011]

Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council and Jamia Millia Islamia Centre for Culture Media and Governance invites you to a Symposium "Cultural Policy & Curatorship: Perspectives from Switzerland" by Mirjam Varadinis Curator, Kunsthaus Zurich Marianne Burki, Head, Visual Arts, Pro Helvetia 20 January 2011 Time: 10.00 am Venue: Tagore Hall Date: Prof Zargar Zahoor Dean of Fine Arts, Jamia Millia Islamia will chair.

Mirjam Varadinis
Mirjam Varadinis is art historian and curator at Kunsthaus Zürich since September 2002. She is in charge for contemporary art and has organized various exhibitions, among others the group show “Shifting Identities – (Swiss) Art Now” and solo exhibitions with Adrian Paci, Mircea Cantor, Runa Islam, Tino Sehgal, Erik van Lieshout, Aleksandra Mir, Nedko Solakov, Urs Fischer, David Shrigley. She has published numerous catalogues and artist books. In 2006 she co-curated the festival “Printemps de Septembre” in Toulouse. In 2005 she launched together with Annie Wu the Internet-Platform www.azple.com.

Marianne Burki
Marianne Burki, lic.phil.I, Studies of History of Art and Architecture, University of Bern, Switzerland.1996 practical studies at New York Film Academy , 2002 Culture Management at Stapferhaus Lenzburg, Switzerland. 1982-1990 freelancer for art section of the daily journal „Der Bund“, 1993 -1996 scientific collaborator at the Paul Klee Foundation, Bern; 1994 Project Manager of the Catalogue raisonné Paul Klee. 1989- 2001 various lectureships for History of Art and Architecture, among others at the College for Architects, Biel and at Bern University of the Arts. 1999 bis 2005 director and curator of Kunsthaus Langenthal, priority contemporary art. 2003 Culture Award of the Canton of Bern and the City of Langenthal. Since November 2005 Head of Visual Arts, Swiss Arts Council, Pro Helvetia 2002 Production of the film „Mariann Grunder. Bildhauerin“, which is show at Swiss Television and at the Solothurn Film Festival 2003. Publication of text to themes concerning contemporary art. Selection: 2005 for Memoriav „Die Vergänglichkeit des Reproduzierbaren. – Videokunst und neue Medien zwischen Archiv und Gegenwart“ (Video art and New Media between Archive and the Present) and for „Neue Zürcher Zeitung“ „Zwischen Ausstellungsraum und Atelier. Unabhängige Projekträume beleben die Kunstszene Londons“. (Between exhibition space and studio. Independent artist run project spaces make London’s art scene lively)

Programme "Cultural Policy & Curatorship: Perspectives from Switzerland" a symposium by two specialists from Switzerland
10.00 am – Tea
10.30 am - Welcome by Suchismita on Curatorship project
10.40 am - Introduction by Prof Zargar Zahoor, Dean of Fine Arts, Jamia Millia Islamia
11.00 am - Talk by Marianne Burki - ‘Exhibition Practices and Cultural Policy’
11.30 am - Talk by Mirjam Varadinis - ‘Curatorship and Multiculturalism’
12.15 pm – Discussion
12.45 pm - Vote of thanks by Chandrika Grover Ralleigh, Director, Pro Helvetia
1:00 pm - Refreshments

IFA's Curatorship Programme is supported by the Jamsetji Tata Trust (JTT) This Programme is supported by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council