Professional Meetings in ARCOmadrid 2013

On February 13 - 17, ARCOmadrid 2013 proposes once again a space to deal with particular characteristics of contemporary creation, market and public and private collecting.

This reflection meeting is going to be attended by curators, artists, collectors, directors and representatives from museums, art centers and cultural institutions, art critics and other professionals, who are looking forward to exchanging ideas on these matters and creating a proactive and tight network with different media.

This was one of the most tackled topics in previous editions, as a complement to exhibition proposals, closing and summing up a visual art fair. This upcoming edition is going to be called by first-level curators and promoters:Yuko Hasegawa, chief commissioner at Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo;Adriano Pedrosa, Brazilian independent curator;Jens Hoffmann, director of Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco; Chelsea Hains, New Yorker curator and writer;Anna Colin, commissioner, London/Paris;Patrick Charpenel, director of Coleccion Jumex, Mexico D.F.,andMagali Arriola, curator of that Coleccion.

The 2^nd Meeting of Museums from Europe and Latin America is also going to take place, a meeting spot for some 20 professionals from both shores of the Atlantic, organized by Natalia Majluf, director of the Museum of Art, Lima, and from Reina Sofia National Museum and Art Center, João Fernandes, assistant director of preservation, and Jesus Carrillo, director of Cultural Programs. This event is aimed at exploring cooperation mechanisms through the research, archive or education, in an effort to de-territorialize the notion of collections to boost their flow, or change from the notion of the patrimonial to the common.

If those who are more demanding think that everything we have mentioned isn’t enough, we have also organized a Forum on Collecting as parallel activity, with tables headed by Rosa Martinez and Richard Flood, chief commissioner at New Museum of Contemporary Art.

As a brand-new element, we’ll have some sessions with the presence and opinions of the main opinion creators and contemporary art critics on the network, which are going to be coordinated by Roberta Bosco and Stefano Caldana.

Source: Press release