Name: Plattform: Katya García-Antón
Start: 2024-11-09T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-11-09T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Rasmus Meyers alle 5, 5015 Bergen, Norway

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Plattform: Katya García-Antón
Sat 9 Nov
14:00, Upstairs
Free and open to all!
On the occasion of "Ni Musmut (It’s Breezing)" by Edgar Calel, Bergen Kunsthall invites you to a talk by Katya García-Antón. García-Antón will discuss the creative practice of Calel, and how his perspectives on the relations of kinship between humans, earth and all its elements, challenge Western epistemologies and systems of value. The talk will focus on the new works he has made in situ for his exhibition in Bergen Kunsthall, one of which is made with his family, and how they highlight the artist´s engagement with the Mayan Kaqchikel cosmovision, the notion of ritual as a form of research and practice, as well as the connections Calel establishes between these concepts and practices to other cultural contexts.
Katya García-Antón is an art historian, curator, writer and researcher based in Oslo. She has worked in Museo Nacional Reina Sofía Madrid, ICA London, IKON Birmingham and was director of Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève. In Norway she held posts as director/chief curator of OCA, Oslo (inc. curating the conference "Museums on Fire", and the exhibition "Let the River Flow. The Sovereign Will and the Making of a New World") and of NNKM, Tromsø/Longyearbyen/Bodø (inc. curating Raven Chacon´s first European exhibition "A Worm´s Eye View from a Bird´s Beak" (2024) a collaboration with Swiss Institute NY). In Biennale Arte Venezia, she curated the Spanish Pavilion, Dora García (2011), the Nordic Pavilion, Camille Norment (2015), and cocurated the transformation of The Nordic Pavilion into The Sámi Pavilion (2022). She also cocurated Qalandiya International Biennial (Jerusalem, Ramallah, West Bank) (2012) and curated the transnational research/writing sections for Dhaka Arts Summit (2016/2018).
Recent publications include coediting "Indigenous Histories Anthology", MASP/KODE 2024; editing/writing in "Art and Solidarity Reader. Radical Actions, Politics and Friendships", OCA 2022; editing/writing in OCA´s trilogy of readers on Sámi and global Indigenous perspectives; editing/writing in "Rapture", 3-vol Camille Norment publication, Nordic Pavilion 2015.
Plattform is Bergen Kunsthall’s series of conversations and debates with artists and prominent thinkers. This talk will be live streamed on our website.
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