Drawing from a number of recent projects, such as the Research Pavilion in Venice (2019) and the 9th Bucharest Biennale (2020-21), as well as the upcoming Asia Triennial Manchester (2025), Henk Slager will discuss the question of the specificity of the research exhibition as a curatorial format.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, founding chair of MA Curatorial Practice.

As professor of artistic research (Finnish Academy of Fine Art 2010-2015) and as dean of MaHKU Utrecht, Henk Slager has made significant contributions to the debate on the role of research in visual art. In 2004, with Jan Kaila and Gertrud Sandqvist, he initiated the European Artistic Research Network (EARN), a network that investigates the impacts of artistic research on current art education through symposia, expert meetings, and presentations. Slager has also produced and co-produced many curatorial projects, including “Flash Cube” (Leeum, Seoul, 2007), “Translocalmotion” (7th Shanghai Biennale 2008), “Nameless Science” (Apex Art, New York, 2009), As the Academy Turns (Collaborative project Manifesta, 2010), “Tamara Kvesitadze: Any-medium-whatever” (Georgian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2011), “TAR – Temporary Autonomous Research” (Amsterdam Pavilion, Shanghai Biennale 2012), “Doing Research” (dOCUMENTA 13, 2012), “Offside Effect” (1st Tbilisi Triennial, 2012), “Joyful Wisdom” (Parallel Project, Istanbul Biennial, 2013), “Modernity 3.0” (80 WSE Gallery NYU New York, 2014), “Aesthetic Jam” (Parallel Project Taipei Biennial) and “Experimentality” (1st Research Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2015), “Asia Time” (5th Guanzhou Triennial 2015-16), “To Seminar ”(BAK, Utrecht, 2017), “The Utopia of Access” (2nd Research Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2017), “Freedom, What was that all about?” (7th Kuandu Biennale, Taipei 2018), “Research Ecologies” (3rd Research Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2019), and 9th Bucharest Biennale (2020). He published “The Pleasure of Research,” an overview of educational and curatorial research projects from 2007-2014, with Hatje Cantz 2015.

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The Curatorial Roundtable: Henk Slager (Utrecht)

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