Herzliche Einladung zum nächsten Vortrag,

in der Reihe im Wintersemester RaumFragen, von Catherine Nichols! Sie ist Kuratorin und hat zuletzt die künstlerische Leitung für Beuys 100 in NRW 2021 mit Eugen Blume übernommen und die Manifeste 14 in Pristina 2022 kuratiert.

CATHERINE NICHOLS Mittwoch 25.1. / 19 Uhr / Kesselhaus

Drawing on her long-term experimental and interdisciplinary approach to exhibition-making, culminating in a recent laboratory exploring radical democratic forms of collectivity, she has created an interdisciplinary, inclusive and sustainable alternative for what a biennial could be.

https://manifesta.org/2021/10/catherine-nichols-appointed-as-the-creative-mediator-for-manifesta-14-prishtina/

Catherine Nichols is an arts and literary scholar, curator and writer based in Berlin. Since completing her doctorate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia she has curated a broad range of cultural history exhibitions at institutions across Germany. Including Beuys: We are the Revolution and Capital: Debt – Territory – Utopia for the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin (in collaboration with Eugen Blume) and Everyone is an Artist: Cosmopolitical Exercises with Joseph Beuys (in collaboration with Isabelle Malz and Eugen Blume) at K20 Kunstsammlung NRW. She has published widely on contemporary art as well as editing numerous catalogues and books, such as Bruce Nauman: Ein Lesebuch, Black Mountain: An Interdisciplinary Experiment, 1933–1957 and Shine on Me: Wir und die Sonne.

She was the artistic director of beuys 2021, a year-long centenary programme comprising some 30 cultural events in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia as well as an online radio station, a symposium and an interdisciplinary laboratory exploring radical democratic forms of collectivity. She recently curated Manifesta 14 Prishtina – it matters what worlds world worlds: how to tell stories otherwise – and currently works as a curator at the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin.

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