Name: Art Talk: Cecilia Alemani
Start: 2025-04-12T13:30:00-05:00
Location: Nasher Sculpture Center

A Time and Place for Curating: Biennials from Venice to Santa Fe
Co-presented with Site Santa Fe
International biennial exhibitions pose enormous challenges for curators--vast scales, time pressures, budgets, logistics--who also are expected to conceive cogent presentations that respond sensitively and meaningfully to the concerns of the day--artistic, political, social, ecological, etc.--in the localities where they take place as well as to a broader international audience. Join Cecilia Alemani, Director and Chief Curator of High Line Art in New York, artistic director of the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), and curator of the 12th SITE SANTA FE International (opening Summer 2025), and Nasher Interim Director and Chief Curator Jed Morse for a lively conversation about the opportunities and challenges of curating large, international, biennial presentations.
FREE with advance registration. In-person and open to the public. Advance registration requested (limited seating available): https://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/programs-events/event/id/2140?art-talk-cecilia-alemani
About Cecilia Alemani
Cecilia Alemani is an Italian curator based in New York City. Since 2011, she has been the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art, the public art program presented by the High Line in New York City. From 2020 to 2022, she served as artistic director of the 59th Venice Biennale, where she curated the acclaimed exhibition The Milk of Dreams, which was visited by over 800,000 visitors. In September 2023, she curated the exhibition Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self, the first American retrospective of Japanese painter Tetsuya Ishida (1973– 2005), at Gagosian Gallery in New York. In November 2023, Alemani organized Making Their Mark, the first public presentation in New York of the Shah Garg Collection, a major exhibition showcasing the works of more than 80 of the most significant women artists from the last eight decades. In January 2024, she served as the curator of Anu Põder: Space for My Body, the first solo exhibition presented outside Estonia of works by Anu Põder at Muzeum Susch. She also served as artistic director of the inaugural edition of Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires in 2018 and was the curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. Over the past twenty years, Alemani has developed an expertise in commissioning and producing ambitious artworks for the public space and unusual sites.