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Asia Society Switzerland Curator Residency

Curator Residency

Curator Residency 2023

The Asia Society Switzerland Curator Residency 2023 will take place in Taipei. The Call for Applications is open and will end on April 30, 2023.

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The Curator Residency is an initiative launched by Asia Society Switzerland and Esther Heer-Zacek in 2021. For three months, a curator from Switzerland is embedded in an Asian art hub, closely associated with a local art space, and supported in meeting artists, curators, and cultural practitioners from the city as well as the region. The residency includes an additional research trip to a second city in Asia.

Due to the pandemic, people-to-people connections between Switzerland and some places in Asia particularly have been made more difficult. With the Curator Residency, Asia Society Switzerland is creating a new platform for substantial cultural exchange in and with Asia that will reflect in the cultural landscape of Switzerland and Europe – today and tomorrow.

For the inaugural Curator Residency, Swiss-Iranian curator, editor, and producer for contemporary art, Yasmin Afschar traveled to Hong Kong. The former curator at Aargauer Kunsthaus in Aarau, Switzerland, and co-curating of the nomadic discussion platform LE FOYER – IN PROCESS stayed with Tai Kwun, Hong Kong’s Centre for Heritage and Arts in late 2021. During her Residency, she collaborated with Tai Kwun, held workshops for the curatorial team of M+, attended art events, and met local artists at their studios for conversations on their works and practice – with a focus on the intersection of art and healing, Yasmin’s current area of research.

Following her stay, Yasmin invited Angela Su who represented Hong Kong at the Venice Biennale 2022 for a conversation to Zurich. Listen to the conversation on Angela Su’s exhibition “Arise”, her process of mixing fact and fiction, the many alter egos in her work, and how she learned about levitation here. Or read Yasmin’s piece on the conversation for Ocula Magazine here.

The jury for the inaugural iteration of the Asia Society Switzerland Curator Residency consisted of:

Tobias Berger, Head of Art, Tai Kwun
Esther Heer-Zacek
Dominik Keller, Chairman of the Abegg-Foundation
Heike Munder, Director of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Farid Rakun, member of the Indonesian artists' initiative ruangrupa
Prof Dr. Dorothee Richter, ZHdK
Dr. Nina Zimmer, Director Kunstmuseum Bern – Zentrum Paul Klee

The Asia Society Switzerland Curator Residency is generously supported by Esther Heer-Zacek and Dominik Keller.

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The next iteration of the Asia Society Switzerland Curator Residency in Taipei will be announced in 2023. The Call for Applications will be published here.

 


About Yasmin Afschar

yasmin afschar

Yasmin Afschar is a Swiss-Iranian curator, editor, and producer for contemporary art, based in Zurich. Currently the Interim-Director at Kunsthalle-Mainz, Yasmin is the former curator at Aargauer Kunsthaus in Aarau, Switzerland, and has been co-curating the nomadic discussion platform LE FOYER – IN PROCESS since 2018. Recently, she was appointed as a mediator by the New Patrons, an international initiative supporting public art projects commissioned by citizens. Exhibitions Yasmin organized include Emma Kunz Cosmos. A Visionary in Dialogue with Contemporary Art (Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau 2021 & Tabakalera, San Sebastián 2022) as well as solo exhibitions with Hannah Villiger (together with Madeleine Schuppli, Muzeum Susch 2023), and Denise Bertschi (Aargauer Kunsthaus 2019), among others. 

 

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