Nadia Schneider Willen to lead curated walks at India Art Fair 2012

Swiss curator Nadia Schneider Willen, a freelance curator from Zurich, has been invited by India Art Fair 2012 to lead a curated walk through the fair. [dated January 2012]

Pro Helvetia New Delhi in collaboration with the India Art Fair have invited Swiss curator Nadia Schneider Willen to lead a curated walk through the fair. Nadia will also lead and mentor students of art history and young curators in designing and leading their tours around the art fair. 

Date: 25 – 29 January 2012 
Venue: NSIC Exhibition Grounds, New Delhi 
Timings: 2:30, 4:00 and 5:30 pm 
Meeting Point: Information Desk 
Entry: Art Fair rules apply 

For more information visit: www.indiaartfair.in/curated-walks.aspx 

India Art Fair 2012 will enable galleries from around the world to showcase their artworks to discerning collectors, artists, curators, students and art enthusiasts. Guided tours curated by artists and students of art history well-versed with the artworks on display will offer a unique opportunity to the visitors to get an insight and wholesome experience of the art fair. A tentative schedule for Curated Walks for India Art Fair 2012 will be made available shortly. Each walk will be about a half hour long, maximum 40 minutes. 

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. 

For more information please visit: www.indiaartfair.in