Atelierbezoeken Monika Szewczyk & Danai Giannoglou: 20 en 21 mei

Op nader aan te kondigen data zal Monika Szewczyk, directeur De Appel, Amsterdam een aantal atelierbezoeken afleggen bij kunstenaars in Den Haag.

Zij omschrijft haar interessegebieden als volgt:

"Art as un-alienated labour. I'm less interested in specific media than attitude. The attitude has to do with relationship to people, places, and practices that are grounded in community, history and inquiry into the built environment. Alternative economies and aesthetics - alternative to those that alienate people or obliterate ways of life. Artworks that are well-made and have uses beyond the display function in a gallery. Artworks that sound as good as they look. Artists that develop methods of living together with dignity."

Beknopte biografie Monika Szewczyk
Monika Szewczyk is director of De Appel in Amsterdam. She has been curator fordocumenta 14in Athens and Kassel (2015-2017); Visual Arts Program Curator at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago (2012-2014); Head of Publications at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam (2008-2011); these following formative years in Vancouver, Canada where she studied International Relations and Art History at the University of British Columbia and held curatorial positions at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and the Vancouver Art Gallery. Along this path she led seminars at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and the University of Chicago. She also organized exhibitions independently and published writing as well as undertook editing collaborations, most recently for the 10th issue of the Athens-based magazineSouth as a State of Mind (Maintenance), with founding director and editor-in-chief, Marina Fokidis. She is a member of the Artistic Advisory Board for Fogo Island Arts.