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Short biographies of Curatorial Programme participants (2009/2010):

 

 

Nikita Choi (b. 1978, Guangdong, China) studied Journalism at Fudan University, Shanghai, China and has been working as freelance chief-editor for the underground publications U-theque as well as cultural writer for various magazines. She co-founded Ping Pong Space in Guangzhou and has been running the space as Art Director and Curator since 2008. Furthermore, she initiated the work-in-progress project ASAP as a collaborative intervention by Pearl River Delta young artists. Apart from Ping Pong, Choi also runs a monthly column in Urban China magazine in which the observation of Pearl River Delta contemporary art scenario is integrated with the urbanization process of China. Her interests are focused on the writing possibilities between prose and art critique, as well as the relationship between art praxis and its context. She also developed a research interest in female/ performance art based on personal experiences.

 

 

Alhena Katsof (b. 1978, Montreal, Canada) is an artist, curator and writer. Under the pseudonym A.Vermin she curates site-responsive exhibitions, which function as a platform for an on-going conversation about art and hospitality. Alhena completed a Liberal Arts degree with an emphasis on art and politics from Hampshire College in Massachusetts in 2003, and she subsequently graduated with an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art in 2007. After graduation, Alhena remained in Scotland and has since participated in numerous national and international projects and exhibitions. Alhena is a contributor to MAP Magazine and has written several texts on artists' work for other platforms.

 

Direlia Lazo (b. 1984, Cuba) is an independent curator and art critic based in Barcelona, Spain. She has been an assistant-curator at the Wilfredo Lam Art Centre, which organises the Havana Biennale. As an independent, she has curated exhibitions such as Just Around de Corner (La Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2009), Cero, Young Cuban Artist Exhibition (2007, La Habana), and Grasa, jabón y plátano, Wilfredo Prieto's solo exhibition for the IX Havana Biennale. As an art critic she has written essays for exhibition catalogues such as Mute, Mc Master Museum (Canadá), Estados de intercambio, Rivington Place, INIVA (London), and Relatos del nuevo mundo, X Havana Biennale. She has worked in different artist's projects such as Tania Bruguera's Department of Arte de Conducta. She graduated in Art History from Havana University in 2007.

 

Yael Messer (b. 1982, Jerusalem, Israel) holds a B.A degree in the Multidisciplinary Programmme in the Arts, Tel-Aviv University and a Post-graduate Diploma in curating, Goldsimth College. She has been working as an assistant-curator of Art TLV 08 - Tel-Aviv Biennale and was part of the curatorial collective for the exhibition Become a Member- Mother Festival, Tel-Aviv, May 2009. Messer co-curated a group show of Israeli and Greek artists in Remap KM 2, Athens, Summer 2009.

 

Alan Quireyns (b. 1982, Ghent, Belgium) is currently working as independent curator in Antwerp, Belgium. Within his activities he is researching on the role of the Everyday in contemporary visual art and in a broader context the relation between art and life. He organized independent projects focussing among others on the role of credibility within inter human relationships and art and conflict. Next to this he has been working for art institutions such as AIR Antwerpen (artist residency), Sint-Lukas Gallery Brussels and Extra City, Center for Contemporary Arts, Antwerp. He is founder of QUSS, an organisation for contemporary art exhibitions. He studied art history at the university of Ghent and the Freie Universität Berlin.

 

Luis Silva (b. 1978, Lisbon, Portugal) has worked until recently as general coordinator of Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea, having curated LX 2.0 and “Upgrade! Lisbon” as well as having produced many shows of artists like Pedro Cabrita Reis, Aleksandra Mir and Jemima Stehli. Besides his institutional practice, Silva has curated several projects independently, namely Online like “Portuguese Netart 1997-2004”, Lisbon, 2005; “I tag you tag me: a folksonomy of Internet art”, TAGallery, Vienna, 2007; “FW: Re: Re:”, Rhizome at The New Museum, New York, 2008, amongst others. He recently collaborated with Rhizome at The New Museum as Curatorial Fellow and has published extensively reviews and texts addressing the issues of art and (new) media.