miart – International Modern and Contemporary Art Fair of Milan announces the list of speakers of the new edition of miartalks, realized for the fourth consecutive year under the artistic direction of Alessandro Rabottini and in collaboration with In Between Art Film, the film production company founded by Beatrice Bulgari in 2012 to explore the shifting boundaries between contemporary art, video art and cinema.
Brought together under the title The Common Good, the miartalks 2019 will explore the many meanings of this concept and its present and future manifestations in the fields of contemporary art, modern art, and design with:
Maria Thereza Alves, Artist, Berlin
Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Architecture & Design, MoMA, New York
Sammy Baloji, Artist, Brussels – Lubumbashi; Co-founder of Picha asbl, and the Lubumbashi Biennale, Lubumbashi
Christian Benimana, Principal and Managing Director, MASS Design Group; Director, African Design Centre, Kigali
Tulga Beyerle, Director, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Elana Brundyn, Chief Executive, Norval Foundation, Cape Town
Grégory Castéra, Co-Director, Council, Paris
Beatrice Catanzaro, Artist, Milan
Tony Chambers, Founder and Creative Director, Studio TC & Friends, London
Aric Chen, Curator-at-large M+, Hong Kong; Creative Director, Design Miami
Mel Chin, Artist, Egypt NC
Ilse Crawford, Founder and Principal of Studioilse, London
João Fernandes, Deputy Director, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Amy Franceschini, Artist and Designer, Futurefarmers – Presence / Persistence, San Francisco CA
Flavia Frigeri, Teaching Fellow, UCL – University College London
Corinna Gardner, Senior Curator, Design and Digital, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Teresa Grandas, Curator, MACBA – Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Vivien Greene, Senior Curator, 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Matilde Guidelli Guidi, Assistant Curator, Dia Art Foundation, New York
Sharon Hecker, Art Historian and Curator, Milan – Los Angeles
Stefanie Hessler, Writer and Curator, TBA21–Academy, London and Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
Choghakate Kazarian, Art Historian and Curator, Paris
Teresa Kittler, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art, University of York
Beatrice Leanza, Curator and Creative Director, The Global School, Beijing
Jessica Morgan, Nathalie de Gunzburg Director, Dia Art Foundation, New York
Ippolito Pestellini, Partner, OMA, Rotterdam – Milan
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Independent Curator, Writer and Editor, Paris
Ahmet Öğüt, Artist, Amsterdam – Berlin
Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu, Founders, Magazzino Italian Art Foundation, Cold Spring NY
Michelangelo Pistoletto, Artist, and Artistic Director, Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella
François Quintin, Director, Lafayette Anticipations – Fondation d’Enterprise Galeries Lafayette and Fonds de Donation Familie Moulin, Paris
Alice Rawsthorn, Author of Design as an Attitude, London
Marinella Senatore, Artist, Rome
Gabriele Schor, Founding Director, Sammlung Verbund Collection, Vienna
Marco Scotini, Artistic Director, FM Centre for Contemporary Art, Milan; Director, Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies, NABA, Milan
Francesco Stocchi, Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin, Studio Formafantasma, Amsterdam
The program is curated by:
Matteo Lucchetti, Chief Curator, Visible (Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto / Fondazione Zegna)
Hugo Macdonald, Design Critic and Journalist, London
Alberto Salvadori, Director, ICA, Milan