A Decade of British Art Curating | Reflections on a Decade in British Art Curating

Categorised: Conferences

Tagged: 2012-22: A Decade of British Art Curating

Thursday 24 November 14.00 – 18.00 

Tate Britain, Millbank and online

Chaired by Martin Myrone, Convenor, British Art Network

This session will explore the ways curatorial practice has changed and developed since 2012, with key practitioners reflecting on their own experience and the wider social, economic and political landscape. The afternoon will include the premiere of Niyaz Saghari’s documentary film exploring the theme and a roundtable with key figures from the British art world.

Speakers: Mark Sealy (Autograph ABP), Helen Legg (Tate Liverpool), Alex Farquharson (Tate Britain), Sophia Hao (University of Dundee) and Mark Hallett (Paul Mellon Centre).

Additional programme

Tour and discussion of British paintings at the V&A, London

11.00-12.00 on 24 November 2022, at the V&A, London

Gallery tour with Jenny Gaschke, Senior Curator, Paintings and Drawings

The V&A describes itself as the world’s leading museum of art and design. But who thinks of it as an art gallery?  With a view to rethink, refresh and reinterpret the V&A’s paintings (and drawings) display in the picture galleries and across the museum, this workshop will focus on the British paintings take the form of a conversation in the picture galleries.

This is an in-person event taking place at the V&A, South Kensington, London.

Places are strictly limited and booking is essential

Tour of Hackney Windrush sculpture commissions with Create London

Led by Marie Bak Mortenson, Director of Create London

11.00-12.00 24 November 2022, on location in Hackney, London

The recent commissions of Black artists to create public artworks which celebrate and highlight the Windrush Generation and wider aspect of British/Caribbean history signal a key moment for representation in the public realm. Led by Marie Bak Mortenson, Director of Create London, this tour will feature visits to recent sculptural commissions by Veronica Ryan and Thomas J. Price located in Hackney.

This is an in-person event taking place in Hackney

Places are strictly limited and booking is essential

Vlad Basalici’s Last Archive: ‘every work I will make will be dated 2012’

In-person at the Paul Mellon Centre, Bedford Square, London

11.00-12.00 on 24 November 2012

Convened by Roxana Gibescu

The Last Archive was founded in December 2012 by Vlad Basalici, an artist who lives and works between London and Bucharest. This archive contains newspapers from all over the world that were published on December 21st 2012, the day that had been predicted to be the last day before the Apocalypse. In relation to this archive, every year since 2012, Vlad has invited an artist to create an installation at tranzit.ro/Bucharest. In an attempt to investigate how we perceive temporality, all his subsequent works have been dated 2012.

This is an in-person event taking place at the Paul Mellon Centre, London

Places are strictly limited and booking is essential

Booking details to follow