Postmigration: Reframing Identity, Community and History

30 September 

1 October 

Anne Ring Petersen is Professor of Modern Culture and Contemporary Art at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. Her interests centre on transcultural and migratory approaches to art and cultural production, focusing especially on the transformative impact of migration, postmigration and globalization on contemporary art practices and identity formation.

Her current research project, in collaboration with Sabine Dahl Niel-sen, is titled Togetherness in Difference: Reimagining Identities, Communities and Histories through Art (2019-2023). She is the author of several books, including Migration into Art: Transcultural Identities and Art-making in a Globalised World (Manchester University Press 2017) and Installation Art: Between Image and Stage (Museum Tusculanum Press 2015). She is also the co-author of Reframing Migration, Diversity and the Arts: The Postmigrant Condi-tion (Routledge 2019)

Sabine Dahl Nielsen is a cultural studies theorist researching contemporary artistic and curato-rial practices, with a special focus on radical democratic and postmigrant perspectives on art and culture. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen, where she is working on the collective research project Togetherness in Difference: Reimagining identities, communities and histories through art (2019-2022). She has curated the exhibition Transit: Art, Mobility and Migration in the Age of Globalisation (2018) and her work on radi-cal forms of participation and the intersection of exhibition practices and contemporary social urgencies including the struggles around migration, gentrification and anti-racism have been published in exhibition catalogues, anthologies, and journals.

Dr. Sotirios Bahtsetzis is a curator and holds a summa cum laude Ph.D. in the History of Modern and Contemporary Art from the Technische Universität Berlin. The subject of his thesis is the historical analysis of installation art in the 20th century. He is Associate Professor in theory of contemporary art and curating practices at the Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries of the University of Thessaly. He also belongs to the adjunct faculty of the Hellenic Open University and the Museology Masters Program of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Western Macedonia.

He has taught at the University of Patras, London Metropolitan University, Columbia University, New York (Fulbright Research Scholar) and the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, FHNW in Basel Switzerland (as visitor-professor). He is a member of IKT, AICA, and EEIT. He publishes articles in magazines (such as the E-flux Journal) and exhibition catalogues in Greece and internationally. He has curated numerous solo exhibitions and group exhibitions at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, the State Museum of Contemporary Art (BIENNALE: 3 Thessaloniki), the Beltsios Collection, etc. He is also Research Director of ArtBOX Creative Arts Management and Co-Director of AthenSYN. AthenSYN is the initiative of a group of artists, curators and cultural agents, building an infrastructure and a network to foster the presentation of Greek contemporary art internationally, with focus on the exchange between Greece and Germany.

Vladimir Tomic was born in Sarajevo in 1980 and fled to Denmark from Bosnia at the age of 12 with his mother and older brother. The refugee story is an important theme in his film work, which is situated in the intersection between contemporary art and experimental documentary. Tomic’s 70-minute-long film Flotel Europa (2015) was selected for the Berlin Film Festival and has since won the award for best documentary at several film festivals. In 2021, Tomic received the prestigious three-year grant from the Danish Arts Foundation.