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Reopening Europe: Curating Beyond 2000
A discussion on international curating moderated by Lynne Cooke
Wednesday, April 7th 1999 at 6:00 p.m.
Great Hall, Cooper Union
3rd Avenue between 7th Street and St. Mark's Place

Participants
Okwui Enwezor, artistic director of Documenta XI (Kassel, Germany, June 2002)

Franceso Bonami and Maria Hlavajova, curators for Manifesta 3(Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2000)

Paolo Colombo, artistic director of the 6th Istanbul Biennial (September 1999)

The panel addressed the intellectual and cultural issues confronting international curators in the arena of present-day Europe, the significance today of an international exhibition in Europe and what artistic and cultural currents define a European community for the contemporary arts?

Participant Biographies
Okwui Enwezor is adjunct curator of contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a widely published critic, essayist, and poet and is the publisher and founding editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. He was artistic director of the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale 1997.

Francesco Bonami is Manilow Senior Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and artistic director of the Fondazione Sandretto ReRebaudengo per L'Arte. He was the U.S. editor of Flash Art International from 1990 to 1997 and has lectured and published widely on the contemporary visual arts.

Maria Hlavajova is director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts-Bratislava, Slovakia. She has curated numerous one-person and group exhibitions, particularly of contemporary Czech and Slovakian artists, and is a contributor to PROFIL, Atelier, Kalligram, and Siksi: The Nordic Art Review.

Paolo Colombo is director of the Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, where he has curated exhibitions of Kiki Smith, Anne Sauser-Hall, Allan McCollum, Nicos Baikas, Silvia Bachli, Pia Stadtbäumer, Ugo Rondinone, Pipilotti Rist, Jane and Louise Wilson, Gilian Wearing, and many other artists.

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