Speaker: Isabella Tam (Curator of Visual Art, M+ Museum)

Moderator: Prof. Yongwoo Lee

Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=2096274

Abstract

This talk will showcase the M+ Sigg Collection exhibitions and the curatorial project called <Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now>. These examples will provide insight into how curators can push existing art historical narratives to make them relevant today. Additionally, she will explore the transnational and interdisciplinary curatorial framework behind the M+ museum collection. This talk will demonstrate what it means to curate in a 21st-century global museum in Asia.

Biography

Isabella is a curator of visual art at M+ Museum. She joined M+ since its inception in 2012 and has been contributing to the building of a premier collection of Asia Art with global perspective and organizing collection displays and contemporary exhibition with transnational focus. She was the assistant editor of the catalogue Chinese Art Since 1970: The M+ Sigg Collection (2021), and <Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now, 2022>.

Inquiry: haoqianyu@cuhk.edu.hk