JOANNA WARSZA

„In recent years, the art world has been more often confronted with a classic dilemma of engagement or disengagement, in the face of political turmoils, corporate agendas or disrespect of human rights. It all gives a feeling that curating and art production cannot just carry on ‘as if nothing had happened’”, says Joanna Warsza in her course description. After she has conducted a workshop on boycotts in the art field at this year’s Summer Academy, next summer she will continue to research with the students former examples of groundbreaking exhibitions and will work on a “code of curatorial ethics”.

Joanna Warsza is curator of the Symposium “Perferct Harmony” within the 3rd Transitions festival “Central Europe” that will take place at the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 November 2015. The symposium will also be screened here.

Among others, Warsza was head of the “Public Program” of Manifesta 10 in St. Petersburg (2014), curated the Georgian Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (2013), and served as associate curator of the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2012). Currently she is a senior lecturer at CuratorLab at Konstfack in Stockholm.

In this video she presents the curatorial concept of the “Public Progam” of Manifesta 10, taking into account the difficult political circumstances of the exhibition that took place in Russia last year.