In addition to presenting his curatorial practice, Chris Sharp will consider issues such as medium specificity, three-dimensionality, the human body, images and (im)materiality. The lecture will be illustrated by a series of recent exhibitions, notably Manners of Matter, Salzburger Kunstverein/Musée du château des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard, France (2014); Le Mouvement, co-curated with Gianni Jetzer, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland (2014); and The Registry of Promise (2014–15) various venues.
Chris Sharp (b. 1974, USA) is a writer and independent curator based in Mexico City, where he runs, with the artist Martin Soto Climent, the project space Lulu. Together with Gianni Jetzer, he co-curated the 12th edition of the Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, entitled Le Mouvement, in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, and he is currently curating the cycle of exhibitions The Registry of Promise, at Fondazione Giuliani, Rome; Le Parc St. Léger, Pogues-les-Eaux, France; Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France; and De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Holland. He is editor-at-large of Kaleidoscope magazine, a contributing editor of Art Review, and his writing has appeared in many magazines and on-line publications including Artforum, Fillip, Afterall, Mousse, Metropolis M, Spike, Camera Austria, artpress, Art-Agenda, and others.
The lecture will be held in English.