miart 2018: miartalks

Brought together under the title “What Can We Imagine?” miartalks 2018 explores imagination as an essential force that creates and transforms reality, rather than as a form of escape from the present. Together with the invited speakers, we will explore the individual and collective boundaries of imagination, we will question “where” is it possible to imagine and if there are places where imagining is utopian; how imagination can become a daily exercise and, finally, what can we imagine for a future that is already here?

When Apr 13, 12:15pm – 12:30pm
What welcome speech
Who Beatrice Bulgari, Fondatrice, In Between Art Film; Alessandro Rabottini, Direttore Artistico, miart 2018; Fatos Üstek, Direttrice e Capo Curatrice, David Roberts Art Foundation, Londra e Curatrice miartalks 2018

When Apr 13, 12:30pm – 13:30pm
What Jeremy Deller in conversation with Massimiliano Gioni

When Apr 13, 3pm – 4pm
What Social Imaginary VS Institutional Imaginary
Who Defne Ayas, Curator, With or Without, Rotterdam and Berlin; Sara Raza, Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator for the Middle East and North Africa; Nicolaus Schafhausen, Director, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Moderator Fatos Üstek

When Apr 13, 5:30pm – 6:30pm
What Sharing the Imagination
Who Andrea Bowers, Artist, Los Angeles; Lydia Yee, Chief Curator, Whitechapel Gallery, London; Tobias Zielony, Artist, Berlin
Moderator Fatos Üstek

When Apr 14, 12:30pm – 2pm
What Critical Regionalism and the Making of Manifesta 12
Who Hedwig Fijen, Director of Manifesta, Amsterdam; Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Manifesta 12 Creative Mediator and Partner at OMA, Rotterdam; Mirjam Varadinis, Manifesta 12 Creative Mediator and Curator at Kunsthaus, Zurich
Moderator Paola Nicolin, Editor-at-large, Domus

When Apr 14, 3pm – 4pm
What Christian Marclay in conversation with Jean-Pierre Criqui
Who Christian Marclay, Artist and Composer, London; Jean-Pierre Criqui, Curator of Contemporary Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and Editor-in-chief, Cahiers du Mnam

When Apr 14, 4:30pm – 5:30pm
What How to Imagine New Histories of Italian Art?
Who Luca Massimo Barbero, Art Historian and Associate Curator, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; Vincenzo de Bellis, Curator of Visual Arts, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Vittorio Calabrese, Director, Magazzino Italian Art, New York; Andrea Viliani, General Director, Fondazione Donnaregina per le Arti Contemporanee – Museo Madre, Naples
Moderator Barbara Casavecchia, Frieze Contributing Editor and Independent Curator, Milan

When Apr 14, 6pm – 7pm
What Walid Raad in conversation with Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
Who Walid Raad, Artist, New York; Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Director, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam

When Apr 15, 11:15am – 11:45am
What Perspectives for a New Tax System for Art
Who Annibale Dodero, Director, Centrale Normativa Agenzia delle Entrate, Rome; Alessia Panella, Studio Pannella, Ordine degli Avvocati, Rovigo; Mauro Stefanini, President, ANGAMC – Associazione Nazionale Gallerie d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Milan
Moderator Franco Broccardi, Partner, Studio BBS-Lombard, Milan

When Apr 15, 12pm – 1:30pm
What Instituting the Forces of Imagination
Who Shumon Basar, Writer and Curator, Berlin / Dubai; Chus Martinez, Director, Art Institute at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel; Mark Rappolt, Editor-in-Chief, ArtReview / ArtReview Asia; Nikola Dietrich, Appointed Director, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Moderator Osei Bonsu, Independent Curator and Writer, London / Paris

When Apr 15, 3pm – 3:30pm
What Awarding Ceremony – Premio Rotary Club Milano Brera per l’Arte Contemporanea e i Giovani Artisti
Who Laura Cherubini, Curator and Professor of Contemporary Art History, Brera Fine Arts Academy, Milan
Christian Marinotti, Publisher, professor of Art History in Architecture Faculty, Politecnico, Milan and founder of the prize; Paola Nicolin, Editor at Large, Domus; Giorgio Verzotti, Art Critic and Curator, Milan

When Apr 15, 4pm – 5pm
What Teresa Margolles in conversation with Diego Sileo
Who Teresa Margolles, Artist, Mexico City / Madrid; Diego Sileo, Curator, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan and Curator of the exhibition

When Apr 15, 5:30pm – 6:30pm
What A Better Future: Imagination and Design
Who Andrea Anastasio, Designer, Naples / Mumbai; Michael Anastassiades, Product Designer, London; Emily King, Writer and Curator, London; Zoë Ryan, John H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Architecture and Design, Department of Architecture and Design, The Art Institute of Chicago
Moderator Hugo Macdonald, Design Critic, Journalist and Curator of “Object” at miart 2018, London