We are pleased to share with you a recording of the Virtual Panel we held on Thursday, October 1 with the artists in our two concurrent exhibitions Minku Kim: Foundation and Ted Gahl: Paintings, moderated by independent curator Francesca Altamura.
Francesca Altamura is a curator and organizer living in New York (unceded Canarsie/Lenape lands). She was recently appointed curator of the VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, alongside Lizaveta Matveeva, where they will debut their digital exhibition, “I don’t know whether the Earth is spinning or not…”. In 2021, they will curate a group exhibition together at Haus N, Athens, Greece. In 2019, she co-curated “Diedrick Brackens: darling divined” with Margot Norton, for the New Museum in New York; the exhibition will travel to the Blanton Museum of Art, Texas, in 2021. At the New Museum, she also curated presentations by Randa Maroufi (2020), Sydney Shen (2019), and Ahaad Alamoudi (2019), and has assisted on exhibitions by artists including Peter Saul, Daiga Grantina, Hans Haacke, Lubaina Himid, Marta Minujín, Nari Ward, Sarah Lucas, Thomas Bayrle, and John Akomfrah. She has curated exhibitions independently at The Carillon Gallery, Tarrant Community College South Campus, Fort Worth, Texas (2019), LADRÓNgalería, México City, México (2017), and The Government Art Collection, London, UK (2016). She has also contributed to the group exhibitions “The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement” (Phillips Collection, Washington DC), “The Same River Twice: Contemporary Art in Athens” (Benaki Museum, Athens), “Strange Days: Memories of the Future” (The Store X, London), and the 2018 New Museum Triennial: “Songs for Sabotage.” She proudly served as Delegate for the New Museum Union—UAW Local 2110, which formed in January 2019. Altamura holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Minku Kim: Foundation Checklist
http://bit.ly/ABMinkuKim
Ted Gahl: Paintings Checklist
http://bit.ly/ABTedGahl
Minku Kim: Foundation and Ted Gahl: Paintings are on view at Alexander Berggruen from September 1-October 14, 2020. The exhibitions’ previews, noting pricing and availability, are available upon request. To schedule a visit and for all inquiries, please feel free to contact the gallery at: info@alexanderberggruen.com.
