Swiss curator, Nadia Schneider Willen will be visiting India to participate in the ‘Young Curators Hub’ organised by Experimenter Kolkata on 15th & 16th July 2011. [dated July 2011]
Swiss curator, Nadia Schneider Willen will be visiting India to participate in the ‘Young Curators Hub’ organised by Experimenter Kolkata on 15th & 16th July 2011.
Experimenter is organising a ‘Young Curators Hub’ in Kolkata to discuss, debate and present the most contemporary thought behind curating exhibitions in today's context. Curatorial practice in India is at a crucial juncture and it is important to talk about its current state and its future development, especially through conversations between young Indian curators who are pushing the boundaries of contemporary art. The event will see a coming together of 10 of the country’s edgiest curators (below the age of 45) and Kolkata’s visual arts community, intellectuals and some of the leading contemporary arts personalities from the rest of the country. Amongst other things, this hub will include dedicated individual presentations of the 10 young curators’ own practice and its development with specific focus on exhibitions curated in the last two years, curatorial ventures in the pipeline.
The event will culminate in an open session where artists, thinkers, collectors, writers, other curators, film makers, gallerists and other individuals from the arts will interact with each other to take the conversations productively forward.
Swiss curator – Nadia Schneider Willen
Nadia Schneider Willen, born 1971 in Bern, is a freelance curator based in Zurich. She studied French literature and history of art at the University of Zurich. From 2001 to 2007 she was director and curator of the Kunsthaus Glarus and after that conservator of modern and contemporary art at the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Geneva. In 2005 she co-curated the exhibition „In Times Like These“ at the International Biennale in Prague (National Gallery). Since 2007 she has been a member of the Swiss Federal Art Commission and is currently a member of the Turner Prize jury 2011. In Geneva, she was responsible for the exhibitions „Alexandre Perrier (1862-1936)“, Musée d'art et d'histoire, and the retrospective of Alberto Giacometti at the Musée Rath. In the Kunsthaus Glarus she curated contemporary exhibitions with international artists such as Gillian Wearing, Julika Rudelius, Jim Shaw, Annelise Coste, Gary Webb, Tobias Zielony, David Thorpe, Jeanne Faust, Hammwöhner / Jakob/Vormstein, Peter Piller und Swiss artists such as Hanspeter Hofmann, Pierre Vadi, Philippe Decrauzat, Daniel Robert Hunziker, Markus Müller, Vaclav Pozarek, Rolf Graf, Ingrid Wildi, Goran Galic/Gianreto Gredig.
