Presented by The Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art

Hosted by Spike Berlin

"New Positions In Curating"

Six distinct curators express their views during a day-long colloquium. A morning and afternoon session will be followed by round-table discussions between the curators. Audience participation is of course encouraged.

11am-1:30pm

Heidi Ballet (Lofoten Biennial, Beaufort Triennial), Jens Maier-Rothe (Beirut, Cairo) and Nikola Dietrich (Starship Magazine)

3:30-6pm

Mathieu Copeland (VOIDS, A Retrospecitve), Anuradha Vikram (18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, OTIS College of Art & Design) and Ludwig Seyfarth (University of the Arts Braunschweig, Hamburg University of Fine Arts)

"Defne Ayas Talks Practice"

7:30-9pm

Defne Ayas is the Director of Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, where she oversees the exhibition and publication programs devoted to established and emerging artists, writers, and curators from across the globe. Since her arrival in 2012, she has conceived, commissioned and (co)-curated long-term projects, group exhibitions and solo projects, including Relational Stalinism by Michael Portnoy (2016), three-part Art in the Age of… series (with focus on energy and raw materials, asymmetric warfare and planetary computation) (2015), Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland (2015), Character is Fate by Willem de Rooij (2015)