Curating in the 21st Century Museum
Speaker: Isabella Tam (Curator of Visual Art, M+ Museum)
November 16. 2023, 8:00pm – 9:30pm including Q&A session
Venue: CKB UG05, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Moderation: Prof. Yongwoo Lee
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=2096274
Abstract: This talk will showcase the M+ Sigg Collection exhibitions and the curatorial project called . These examples will provide insight into how curators can push existing art historical narratives to make them relevant today. Additionally, she will explore the transnational and interdisciplinary curatorial framework behind the M+ museum collection. This talk will demonstrate what it means to curate in a 21st-century global museum in Asia.
Biography: Isabella is a curator of visual art at M+ Museum. She joined M+ since its inception in 2012 and has been contributing to the building of a premier collection of Asia Art with global perspective and organizing collection displays and contemporary exhibition with transnational focus. She was the assistant editor of the catalogue Chinese Art Since 1970: The M+ Sigg Collection (2021), and and <Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now, 2022>.
This talk is organized by the Master of Arts in Cultural Management Programme, CUHK, and supported by The Centre for Cultural Studies, CUHK
Inquiry: haoqianyu@cuhk.edu.hk