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11/16/2024
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ICI presents Curator’s Perspective: Koyo Kouoh
Free with Museum admission.
Koyo Kouoh speaks at the Curator’s Perspective, an itinerant public discussion series that features international curators who distill current happenings in contemporary art, including the artists they are excited by, exhibitions that have made them think, and their views on recent developments in the art world.
Kouoh is a Cameroonian-born independent curator and cultural producer educated in Banking Administration, Cultural Management, and Curatorial Practice in Switzerland, France, and the United States. She is the founder and artistic director of RAW MATERIAL COMPANY. Specializing in photography, video, and public interventions, she has curated exhibitions in Brazil, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and the United States and has written extensively on contemporary African art. Recent projects Kouoh has been involved in include: Documenta 12, Kassel; “Make Yourself at Home: Contemporary hospitality in a changed world,” an exhibition curated in collaboration with Charlotte Bagger Brandt for Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; and “GEO-graphics,” a map of African art practices past and present, curated with David Adjaye and Anne-Marie Bouttiaux to celebrate fifty years of African independence at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Koyo Kouoh lives and works in Dakar.
About Independent Curators International
Independent Curators International (ICI) produces exhibitions, events, publications, and training opportunities for diverse audiences around the world. In thirty-five years, ICI has organized 118 traveling exhibitions, profiling the work of more than 3,700 artists. The resulting networks include 621 museums, university art galleries, and art centers in forty-eight states and twenty-nine countries. A catalyst for independent thinking, ICI connects emerging and established curators, artists, and institutions, to forge international networks and generate new forms of collaboration. Working across disciplines and historical precedents, the organization is a hub that provides access to the people, ideas, and practices that are key to current developments in the field, inspiring fresh ways of seeing and contextualizing contemporary art.
Sponsors
This program is made possible, in part, through the support of the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Education and public programs are made possible by a generous grant from Goldman Sachs Gives at the recommendation of David and Hermine Heller.
