Workshop with Nina Möntmann

Following up on the seminar on 11 May ‘Curating Global Entanglements’, this workshop provides an opportunity to discuss some of the intersecting interests identified at the seminar in greater depth. The invited speaker Nina Möntmann will join researchers on campus to open the workshop with some theoretical reflections on how she has developed decolonial perspectives tailored to her current research projects on contemporary curatorial practices.

The rest of the workshop will revolve around group discussion of presentations by 2-3 participants (10 min. each) who are currently grappling with similar theoretical challenges. Presenters are encouraged to use a specific case as focal point. After the workshop, lunch will be provided for all those interested.

Please sign up for the workshop no later than 3 May 2022. Mail to: skn@hum.ku.dk

If you wish to do a presentation, please contact Sabine Dahl Nielsen as soon as possible, and no later than 2 May 2022. Mail to: skn@hum.ku.dk

Biography

Nina Möntmann is Professor of Art Theory at the University of Cologne, curator and writer and PI at the Global South Study Center (GSSC) at the University of Cologne. Before she has been Professor of Art Theory and the History of Ideas at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, and curator at NIFCA, the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art in Helsinki. Recent exhibitions include Fluidity (Kunstverein in Hamburg 2016); Harun Farocki: A New Product (Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2012); If we can't get it together. Artists rethinking the (mal)functions of community (The Power Plant, Toronto, 2008); The Jerusalem Show: Jerusalem Syndrome (co-curated with Jack Persekian), 2009; the Armenian Pavillion for the 52nd Venice Biennial.

Recent publications include Kunst als Sozialer Raum, (Cologne, König Books, 2002 / 2017) and the edited volumes Brave New Work. A Reader on Harun Farocki’s film‚ A New Product’, English/German (Cologne, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2014); Scandalous. A Reader on Art & Ethics (Berlin, Sternberg Press, 2013); New Communities (Toronto, Public Books/The Power Plant, 2009) and Art and Its Institutions (London, Black Dog Publishing, 2006).

 Organizer: Togetherness in Difference: Reimagining Identities, Histories and Communities through Art. This research project and the symposium is supported by Novo Nordisk Foundation grant NNF19OC0053992.

The symposium is supported by Novo Nordisk Foundation grant.