Conversation Platform 2023
Conversation platform curated by Thanks for Nothing
Thanks for Nothing organized a day of conferences. The program included 5 round tables to showcase the committed practices of the Asian art scene.
Highlighting a variety of individual and collective practices, the speakers demonstrated the artistic richness, innovative curatorial approaches and social commitment of the Asian scene.
Watch Nicolas Bourriaud on the Gwangju Biennal, 2024
With:
Nicolas Bourriaud, Artistic Director of the Gwangju Biennial 2024, Curator, writer, art critic and theorist
Marine Van Schoonbeek, General Director and co-founder of Thanks for Nothing
Watch The myth as Vector for Human Ecology
With:
Leiko Ikemura, Artist, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Galerie Karsten Greve
Maitha S. Abdalla, Artist, Tabari Arts pace
Elena Sorokina, Curator, art historian
Watch Building the museum of tomorrow
With:
Lina Jinhyung Kim, Founder and curator, K&L Museum
Marine Van Schoonbeek, General Director and co-founder of Thanks for Nothing
Understanding the critical zone: collective narratives
With:
Martin Guinard, Curator at Luma Arles, co-curator at the Taipei Biennial in 2020
Quỳnh Lâm, Artist
Charwei Tsai, Artist, mor charpentier
Social Commitment in the Central Asian Art Scene
With:
Yannick Lintz, President of the Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet
Jamilya Nurkalieva, Director of the Tselinny Center for Contemporary Culture
Dilda Ramazan, Founder of Wake up, Kazakhstan!, independent curator, activist, artist and art critic
Conversation Platform curated by The Tselinny Center
Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture is a regional institution that promotes cultural exchange to assist the local general public and enhance the artistic outreach to build an intellectual community by creating a dialogue within Kazakhstan latitude and the wider regional central Asian perspective.
Intro about the Program, Tselinny and participants
With:
Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture
Slavs & Tatars, Guest Curator of Asia NOW
With:
Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture, Member of Tselinny Center of Contemporary
Slavs & Tatars, Guest Curator of Asia NOW
“Decolonial thought in Kazakhstan”
With:
Nariman Shelekpayev, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University
“What does it mean to be Central Asian Today?”
With:
Indira Dussebayeva-Ziyabek, Curator, Founder Ainalayin Space (London), Co-founder IADA (Paris)
Saodat Ismailova, Artist (Uzbekistan)
Madina Joldybek, Artist (Kazakhstan)
Nariman Shelekpayev, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University
Alima Kairat, Artistic Director, Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture Almagul Menlibayeva Artist (Kazakhstan)
Jamilya Nurkaliyeva, Director, Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture
“Does the Central Asian market exist?”
With:
Meruyert Kaliyeva, Founder, Aspan Gallery (Kazakhstan)
Vladislav Sludskiy, Art Dealer, Curator
Danagul Tolepbay, Founder, Pygmalion Gallery (Singapore)
Conversation Platform | Book Launch | The Poverty Line
The Poverty Line uses the universal lens of food to examine the daily choices we would face living at the poverty line. Over a period of 10 years, from 2010 to 2020, the artists travelled 200,000 kilometres to create case studies of 36 countries and territories spanning six continents. The Poverty Line art works are in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and China Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum. The Poverty Line book was a winner of the 5th edition of the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles 2019, and was selected by The Museum of Modern Art for its list of Favourite Photobooks for 2021.
Book Launch | The Poverty Line
With:
Stefen Chow, Artist
Huiyi Lin,Artist
Christoph Wiesner, Director of Rencontres d’Arles
Conversation Platform | East/West: The art of collecting
East/West: The art of collecting
With:
Liyu Yeo, Independent Curator, VIP Ambassador Asia NOW
Désiré Feuerle, Founder of The Feuerle Collection
Heiner Wemhöner, Entrepreneur and Art Collector
Anita Zabludowicz OBE, Founder of Zabludowicz Collection
Conversation Platform | Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration
“J’ai une famille”, 10 artistes de l’avant-garde chinoise installés en France
With:
Hou Hanry, Art critic and curator
Evelyne Jouanno, Art curator
Isabelle Renard, Directrice adjointe du Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration
Conversation Platform | ARTSY
New this year, Artsy has published an Art Industry Trend Report using insight from our global audience of collectors and galleries. In presentation or panel form, we could also look to invite a key gallerist from your exhibitors for a discussion on their personal experiences using the market findings this year.
Conversation Platform curated by ARTSY
With:
Alexander Forbes, VP of Galleria & Fairs at Artsy
Freddy Kornfeld, Founder, KORNFELD Galerie( Berlin)
Sylviane Huang, Director of Over The Influence Gallery (Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Bangkok, Paris)
Conversation Platform | Asia Society | High Fashion and Asian local craftsmanship
We are increasingly witnessing a dialogue, or let's rather say a real collaboration between local traditions, craftsmanship and contemporary creation. Many exhibitions highlight these links. The dialogues between popular costumes and haute couture creations allow us to better understand how each other is perceived in society.
Ancient heritage does not only have its place in a museum. It remains a living object for the creators of tastes that will seduce our societies and generations to come. This is the role of the creator who gives old traditions a second life, while maintaining local know-how. Here is a delicate but essential game for the benefit of the safeguarding of heritages sometimes in danger, to renew ideas, approaches, styles and looks, and to integrate sustainable materials into creations, integrating into a challenge for the protection of planet.
This "New Age Silk Road which is part of an era of reinvention, like cross-pollination”. We offer a space to discuss with experts in Asian textiles, brands, and designers .
High Fashion and Asian local craftsmanship
With:
Sylvie Marot, designer
Nazzy Beglari, designer
Jean-Michel Dumont, co-moderators
Aurélie Samuel, co-moderators
Conversation Platform | Slavs and Tatars
Slavs and Tatars is an internationally renowned art collective devoted to an area East of the former Berlin Wall and West of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. Since its inception in 2006, the collective has shown a keen grasp of polemical issues in society, clearing new paths for contemporary discourse via a wholly idiosyncratic form of knowledge production: including popular culture, spiritual and esoteric traditions, oral histories, modern myths, as well as scholarly research.
Conversation Platform | Slavs and Tatars
With:
Catherine David, French Art Historian, Curator
Slavs and Tatars, Guest Curator of Asia NOW
Conversation Platform | Thinking outside the art fair
Thinking outside the art fair: Rising narratives on gender, site-specificity and postcoloniality in the MENA regionIndependent art critic and curator Nadine Khalil will be in conversation with Dyala Nusseibeh, Abu Dhabi Art (ADA) Director about new curatorial models and artist narratives and artist Hoda Tawakol about her work with the body in relation to the natural world and postcolonial critique.
Rising narratives in the MENA region
With:
Nadine Khalil, Independent Art Critic, Editor and Curator
Dyala Nusseibeh, Director ofAbu Dhabi Art
Hoda Tawakol, Artiste( based inGermany)
Conversation Platform | The Future of the Art Market in Asia and the Asian Diaspora
With:
Gladys Lin,Founder, Gladys Lin Projets(Taipei and NYC)
JaeMyung Noh, Education Entrepreneur
Vivienne Chow, Moderator
Conversation Platform Emerging Artistic & Discursive Practices
With:
Durjoy Rahman, art collector and founder of the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation
Yung Ma, curator
Amol K Patil, artist
Shwetal Patel, founding team member of India's first visual arts biennial, Kochi-Muziris Biennale.
Skye Arundhati Thomas, moderator