Join two renowned writers on contemporary art as they discuss why medium still matters to artists engaging with memory—personal, historical, cultural, forgotten, discovered, restored. Moderated by curator, advisor and consultant Beth Greenacre.
This discussion is on the occasion of the group exhibition curated by Griselda Pollock at HackelBury Fine Art. Choosing Medium & Memory as her concept, the exhibition stages four conversations pairing eight artists from different countries, generations, ethnicities, and personal histories, who all share a deep engagement with the materiality of their media. Exhibition continues at HackelBury Fine Art until 18th Nov 2023. More information on the exhibition can be found here.
Networking drinks will take place before and after the talk. Special thanks to Christie’s for hosting and for arranging a live stream of the talk at 7pm. Please click HERE to register your place and receive the link.
This event is also in partnership with the Courtauld.
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About
Griselda Pollock is Professor emerita of Social & Critical Histories of Art at the University of Leeds and 2020 Laureate of the Holberg Prize. She has curated exhibitions of contemporary art including Migratory Aesthetics (Leeds, 2006); Bracha Ettinger: Resonance/Overlay/Interweave in the Freudian Space of Memory and Migration (London, Freud Museum 2009): with Carolyn Christov-Bakagiev, solo presentations of Bracha Ettinger and Christine Taylor Patten at the 14th Istanbul Biennial (2013–2014); Lessons in the Studio: Studio in the Seminar (Leeds, 2019-20) co-curated with Sam Belinfante, and currently Medium & Memory: Eight Artists in Conversation at HackelBury Fine Art, London (7.09-21.10, 2023). In addition to writing on many contemporary artists and her major publications range from early classics such Old Mistresses; Women, Art & Ideology with Rozsika Parker (1981/ 2020), Vision and Difference (1988/2012) to Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Art’s Histories (1999), Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum (2007), After-Image/After-Affect: Trauma and Aesthetic Transformation in the Virtual Feminist Museum (2013), Art in theTime-Space of Memory and Migration: Bracha L Ettinger in the Freud Museum (2013); Charlotte Salomon in the Theatre of Memory (Yale University Press 2018), Killing Men & Dying Women: Imagining Difference in 1950s New York Painting (MUP, 2022), and forthcoming Woman in Art: Helen Rosenau’s ‘Little Book’ of 1944 (PMC with Yale University Press, 2023).
Gilane Tawadros is the Director of the Whitechapel Gallery. She was formerly Chief Executive of DACS and Co-Director of the Art360 Foundation. She was the founding Director of the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva) in London, chaired by Professor Stuart Hall, which, over a decade, achieved an international reputation as a ground-breaking cultural agency at the leading edge of artistic and cultural debates nationally and internationally. She has written extensively on contemporary art and curated a number of international exhibitions. She has worked with and advised a number of leading international cultural organisations including Tate, Hayward Gallery, Camden Arts Centre, International Foundation Manifesta, Venice Biennial and Forum for African Arts. She is Chair of the Stuart Hall Foundation, Trustee of the Stuart Croft Foundation and Member of the Advisory Committee for the Yale Center for British Art. Her anthology The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon: Global Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Difference was published by Bloomsbury in 2021.
Beth Greenacre has over 20 years of experience in the art market, working as an experienced and trusted curator, advisor and consultant. She works with private and corporate collectors, commercial and non-for-profit organisations specialising in International Modern, Post-War and Contemporary art. A graduate of The Courtauld Institute of Art and Birkbeck University (University of London), Beth’s previous experiences include co-director of ROKEBY, a London commercial gallery and the curator of the David Bowie collection. In November 2016, she directed the sale of a selection of work from the collection at Sotheby’s which exceeded expectations making $41.1 million by the end of the two-day sale period. Beth continues to work closely with artists supporting their careers and practices from curating exhibitions to placing work with collectors and legacy planning. Recent exhibitions include Living Memory with work by Louise Bourgeois, Gideon Rubin and musician and founding member of Air, Nicolas Godin, housed in the Convent Chapel of the Poor Sisters in Margaret Street, Fitzrovia. She is curator of The AllBright, the Chairperson of the Courtauld Association Committee and is an Advisory Board member of She CURAtes: The Residency. She is also on the AWITA Executive Committee.
HackelBury Fine Art was established in London in 1998. They are committed to nurturing long-term rela- tionships with both artists and clients. It continues to evolve and progress through an expanding program of gallery exhibitions, museum projects and publishing ventures. The small group of artists with whom HackelBury work, represent a diversity of practice, pushing the boundaries of various media. The work and practice of these artists encompasses the worlds of photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture and performance. Each artist, whether emerging or established, creates work defined by a depth of thought and breadth and consistency of approach.
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