ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange has been inviting renowned international curators and critics to participate in the Check in Budapest visitor program since 2006. The aim of the program is to expand the network and facilitate efficient and continuous professional exchange among actors of the contemporary art scene in Hungary and abroad.
The next guest and lecturer of the program is Zoë Gray, curator at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam).
In her lecture Zoë Gray will talk about her curatorial practice at Witte de With where she has worked for the past five years, focusing on two solo exhibitions: the Marcel Duchamp Prix holder Saadane Afif’s Technical Specifications (2008) and Cosima von Bonin’s (2010 ongoing).
Date: 3 November 2010 (Thursday) 6 p.m.
Place: LudwigInzert (József krt. 70, Budapest H-1085, on the corner of József körút - Nap utca)
The lecture will be held in English. All are welcome!
Admission is free.
Zoë Gray (b.1978) is a curator based in Rotterdam, working at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art since 2006. Zoë Gray studied History of Art (BA Hons) at the University of Cambridge and Curating (MA) at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has curated numerous exhibitions at Witte de With, including the solo exhibitions of Billy Apple, Brian Jungen, Tue Greenfort, Margaret Salmon, Geoffrey Farmer, Saâdane Afif, Annette Kelm, Gareth Moore, Liam Gillick, Keren Cytter, Maron de Boer and Cosima von Bonin. She was guest curator of Cyprien Gaillard’s exhibition Béton Belvedere at Stroom (den Haag, 2009) and of Charles Mason’s and Laura White’s exhibition Urban Formalism at CAPC Musée d’art contemporain and Galerie Cortex Athletico (Bordeaux, 2005). She is going to be a guest curator at Parc Saint Leger, Pougues-les-Eaux (forthcoming, June 2011). Her projects at Witte de With include the international symposia Rotterdam Dialogues: Critics, Curators, Artists (2008-9) and The Periphery Complex (2007). In 2010 she curated the film programme And the moral of the story is…
Next to the publications of Witte de With she has contributed to several art magazines, including Metropolis M, Fucking Good Art, The Fillip Review, the Wasafiri Journal of Postcolonial Writing and the Contemporary Magazine. Her essays has been published in the books Anette Kelm (Walther Koenig Books, Cologne, 2009) and Land Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook (RSA, London, 2006).
The Check in Budapest program is supported by the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture.
