On Thursday, 27 November, Daniel Baumann, Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu, Luca Lo Pinto & Pablo Larios convened at the Julia Stochek Foundation to discuss a vocation on the verge of a nervous breakdown, prompted by Baumann’s 2024 essay of the same name in Spike #80 – The State of the Arts.

What Happened to the Curator? was the second in a series of four yearly Spike roundtables on the critical conjunctures in contemporary art, proudly hosted by the Julia Stoschek Foundation.

Thursday, 27 November 2025 at 7:30pm
Julia Stoschek Foundation
Leipziger Str. 60, 10117 Berlin

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DANIEL BAUMANN is an art historian, curator, and critic. From 2015 to 2024, he was the director of Kunsthalle Zurich. He lives in Basel.

ÖVÜL Ö. DURMUŞOĞLU is a curator, writer, and educator working on civilizations critique, infrastructural questions, and togetherness as a question of aesthetics and practice. She lives in Berlin.

LUCA LO PINTO is an Italian curator and editor. He was the artistic director of MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome from 2020 till 2025. From 2014 till 2019 he worked as curator of Kunsthalle Wien. He lives in Rome.

PABLO LARIOS is a writer, editor, and International Editor at Artforum. Born in Honduras and raised in the US, he lives in Berlin.