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Curator Suad Garayeva-Maleki On Curating in Times of Global Isolation
Episode summary: What is principal to an art institution when it comes to big commitments such as commissioning? To what extent museums can contribute to the discourse about socio-ecological emergencies and How to remain relevant if people can’t physically visit the space? In this week’s episode, Suad Garayeva-Maleki, the Artistic Director of YARAT Contemporary Art Space in Baku, Azerbaijan, dives into the interdisciplinary universe of a contemporary art institution and the Politics of Ecology, Social practice and Humanocentrism. In this bold and crucial conversation Suad talks about a museum as a place where people come together and think together, where international artists arrive to create a work in response to regional context in order to become easily translatable to the local communities, and where ambitious projects should be realised focusing on eco- aesthetics and critical social issues.
About the speaker: Suad Garayeva-Maleki is the Artistic Director of YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan. YARAT is a not-for-profit institution with 3 exhibition venues, an international artist residency and a multidisciplinary public and education programme, including lectures, workshops, and festivals. Suad has worked on special commissions and projects by artists such as Goshka Macuga, Neil Beloufa, Hannah Black, Oscar Murillo, Vajiko Chachkhiani, Taus Makhacheva, Babi Badalov, Aida Mahmudova, Pedro Gomez-Egaña, Ilkin Huseynov, Zamir Suleymanov and others, as well as numerous thematic group shows. She also curated "The Union of Fire and Water"- YARAT's critically acclaimed Collateral Event at the 56th Venice Biennale in Palazzo Barbaro with Almagul Menlibayeva and Rashad Alakbarov. Her curatorial activity includes independent projects such as Mike Nelson's "Cloak" for Nouveau Musee National de Monaco (2016) and "It's OK to Change Your Mind: Contemporary Russian Art from the Gazprombank Collection" for MAMbo, Bologna (2018). Prior to joining YARAT in 2014, she was a specialist at Sotheby’s London where she curated groundbreaking exhibitions “At The Crossroads: Contemporary Art from Caucasus and Central Asia” (2013) and “At The Crossroads 2: Art from Istanbul to Kabul” (2014), as well as heading up the “Contemporary East” sales. She was a faculty member at Istituto Europeo di Design Venice in 2015-2016 and is a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School, Saas Fee.
Hosts: Farah Piriye and Elizabeth Zhivkova
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Episode summary: What is principal to an art institution when it comes to big commitments such as commissioning? To what extent museums can contribute to the discourse about socio-ecological emergencies and How to remain relevant if people can’t physically visit the space? In this week’s episode, Suad Garayeva-Maleki, the Artistic Director of YARAT Contemporary Art Space in Baku, Azerbaijan, dives into the interdisciplinary universe of a contemporary art institution and the Politics of Ecology, Social practice and Humanocentrism. In this bold and crucial conversation Suad talks about a museum as a place where people come together and think together, where international artists arrive to create a work in response to regional context in order to become easily translatable to the local communities, and where ambitious projects should be realised focusing on eco- aesthetics and critical social issues.
About the speaker: Suad Garayeva-Maleki is the Artistic Director of YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan. YARAT is a not-for-profit institution with 3 exhibition venues, an international artist residency and a multidisciplinary public and education programme, including lectures, workshops, and festivals. Suad has worked on special commissions and projects by artists such as Goshka Macuga, Neil Beloufa, Hannah Black, Oscar Murillo, Vajiko Chachkhiani, Taus Makhacheva, Babi Badalov, Aida Mahmudova, Pedro Gomez-Egaña, Ilkin Huseynov, Zamir Suleymanov and others, as well as numerous thematic group shows. She also curated "The Union of Fire and Water"- YARAT's critically acclaimed Collateral Event at the 56th Venice Biennale in Palazzo Barbaro with Almagul Menlibayeva and Rashad Alakbarov. Her curatorial activity includes independent projects such as Mike Nelson's "Cloak" for Nouveau Musee National de Monaco (2016) and "It's OK to Change Your Mind: Contemporary Russian Art from the Gazprombank Collection" for MAMbo, Bologna (2018). Prior to joining YARAT in 2014, she was a specialist at Sotheby’s London where she curated groundbreaking exhibitions “At The Crossroads: Contemporary Art from Caucasus and Central Asia” (2013) and “At The Crossroads 2: Art from Istanbul to Kabul” (2014), as well as heading up the “Contemporary East” sales. She was a faculty member at Istituto Europeo di Design Venice in 2015-2016 and is a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School, Saas Fee.
Hosts: Farah Piriye and Elizabeth Zhivkova
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For sponsorship enquiries, comments, ideas and collaborations, email us at [email protected]