Curating art: transnational, collaborative, and interdisciplinary. With Paula Nascimento

While the art of curating was once led by museums, its role has
been transformed over the years. A curator nowadays wears many
hats: They are curators, producers, mediators – working across
fields and disciplines, across borders and mediums, and across
physical and virtual spaces. The freelance curator and architect
Paula Nascimento is part of this ever-changing process. Having
participated in interdisciplinary and collaborative projects, the
Angolan curator has a unique perspective on her profession that
she shares with us in this episode.


Nascimento explains the many layers of curating and how she
herself has experienced it in collaborative and interdisciplinary
projects. In this episode, we also take a look at the role of
international exhibitions, such as the Venice Biennial, where
Nascimento co-curated the Angolan pavilion in 2013. It was the
first and only time, an African country received the golden lion
for its national representation. And finally, she gives us an
insight into virtual art spaces, with ifa’s digital exhibition
“ARE YOU FOR REAL – Phase 1” that she curated together with
various artists and curators.


If you want to learn more about the digital exhibition, ARE YOU
FOR REAL, click here:
https://www.ifa.de/tournee/are-you-for-real/


For more information on the potential of transnational
cooperations in curating, you should read our study “What does
‘curating’ mean today?” by the art historian Annette Tietenberg.
You can find the full study here:
https://culturalrelations.ifa.de/en/research/details/what-does-curating-mean-today/


All previous episodes of “Die Kulturmittler:innen”, e.g. on
feminist foreign policy or our special episodes on Ukraine, can
be found here: https://www.ifa.de/ifa-podcast/


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