Guest Speakers

2023-4 Curatorial Fellows with Hans Ulrich Obrist

Mark Godfrey and Kerryn Greenberg deliver the core academic seminars and skills training sessions. These are supplemented with regular guest talks by a wide range of curators, artists, architects, and other arts professionals.

Throughout the programme, now in it’s second year, the fellows have been able to engage with the following people thus far:

Larry Achiampong
Artist

Igshaan Adams
Artist

Cecilia Alemani
Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art and the artistic director of the 59th Venice Biennale

Sarah Allen
Head of Exhibitions, South London Gallery

Indira Allegra
Multidisciplinary Artist and Writer

David Angus
Head of Installation, South London Gallery

Margo Argorim
Head of Communications, Camden Art Centre

American Artist
Artist

Alvaro Barrington
Artist

Firelei Báez
Artist

Nairy Baghraiman

Artist

Sophie Barber
Artist

Rana Begum
Artist

Alexandra Bricken
Artist

Lynn Blades
Executive Coach

Melissa Blanchflower
Senior Curator, Turner Contemporary

Osei Bonsu
Curator, Tate Modern

Louisa Buck
Contemporary art correspondent, The Art Newspaper

Ben Bowling
Studio Director, Frank Bowling

Gina Buenfeld-Murley Exhibitions Curator, Camden Art Centre

Sean Burns
Artist and Writer

Connie Butler
Director, MoMA PS1

Gustavo Caboco
Artist

Gus Casely-Hayford OBE
Director, V&A East and Storehouse

Sheryl Cato
Co-Director, Action Space

Robin Cembalest
Digital Engagement Strategist

Raven Chacon
Artist

François Chantala
Partner, Thomas Dane Gallery

Diego Chocano
Assistant Curator, Barbican Centre

Martin Clark
Director, Camden Art Centre

Esther Collins
Head of Learning, Towner Eastbourne

Noelle Collins
Exhibitions and Offsite Curator, Towner Eastbourne

Stuart Comer
The Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance, The Museum of Modern Art

Eleanor Costello
Digital Communications Manager, South London Gallery

Elissa Cray
Director, Tracey Emin Artist Residency

Leah Cross
Director of Programmes, Hastings Contemporary

Abraham Cruzvillegas
Artist

Robert Diament
Director, Carl Freedman Gallery and Co-Host, Talk Art podcast

Mary Doherty
Associate Director, Sam Talbot

Marina Doritis
Senior Producer, Artangel

Billie Duch Giménez
Project Curator, British Museum

Adrienne Edwards
Director of Curatorial Affairs, Whitney Museum of American Arts

Peter Fischli
Artist

Jane Findlay
Head of Programme & Engagement, Dulwich Picture Gallery

Cameron Foote
Assistant Curator, Whitechapel Gallery

Jade Foster
Public Programme Curator, Primary

Oscar Murillo
Artist

Florence Ostende
Head of Artistic Department, Mudam Luxembourg

Hans Ulrich Obrist
Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries

Guy Oliver
Co-Director, Quench Gallery

Maureen Paley
Founder and Director, Maureen Paley

Kate Parsons
Director of Conservation, Collections, Care & Access, V&A East

Susanne Pfeffer
Director, Museum Mmk Für Moderne Kunst

William Pope.L
Artist

Christina Quarles
Artist

Habda Rashid
Senior Curator, Fitzwilliam Museum

Val Ravaglia
Curator of Displays and International Art, Tate Modern

Keir Regan-Alexander
Principal, Arka Works

Seph Rodney
Former senior critic and opinion editor for Hyperallergic

Fiona Rogers
Parasol Foundation Curator of Women in Photography, V&A Museum

Lauren Rosati
Associate Curator, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art and Research Projects Manager, Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alex Sainsbury
Founder, Raven Row

Gregoire Schnerb
Director, Hauser & Wirth Paris

Isabel Seligman
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawings, The British Museum

Victoria Siddall
Non-Executive Director of Frieze and Co-Founder and Trustee of Gallery Climate Coalition.

Michael E. Smith
Artist

Maria Stenfors
Cultural Officer, Swedish Embassy

Nancy Spector
Independent Curator and former Artistic Director and Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Roger Tatley
Senior Director, Goodman Gallery

Antonio Tarsis
Artist

Wolfgang Tillmans
Artist

Rosa Tyhurst
Art writer and Curator, Gasworks

Ben Urban
Co-Founder and Director, Flatland Projects

Arese Uwuoruya
Exhibitions Assistant Curator, Camden Art Centre

Séverine Waelchii
Senior Director, Hauser & Wirth Paris

Jasmine Wahi
Founder and Co-Director, Project for Empty Space

Alison Wilding OBE
Artist

Matt Williams
Curator of Public Programmes, Camden Art Centre

Zoe Whitley
Director, Chisenhale Gallery

Hannah Woods
Assistant Curator, Whitechapel Gallery

Jason Wolfe
Founder, Wolfe Hall

Lydia Yee
Independent Curator, formerly Chief Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery

Linsey Young
Curator, Tate Britain

Mariam Zulfiqar
Director, Artangel

Hal Foster
Art Critic, Professor, Princeton University

Wells Fray-Smith
Curator, Barbican

Josh Ginsburg
Director, A4 Arts Foundation

Oliver Haarmann
Partner, Searchlight Capital Partners

James Hamilton
Lecturer, Princeton University

Jane Hamlyn
Founder, Frith Street Gallery

Margot Heller
Director, South London Gallery

Dominique Heyes Moore
Senior Curator, Tate Britain

Dan Hicks
Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, University of Oxford; Curator of World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Matthew Gale
Curator and Art Historian

Rachael Harlow
Former Projects Curator, South London Gallery

Charlotte Hollinshead
Co-Director, ActionSpace

Tamsin Hong
Exhibitions Curator, Serpentine Galleries

Anthony Huberman
Executive Director, John Giorno Foundation

Isaac Huxtable
Assistant Curator in Photography, V&A Museum

Edie Ingleby
Assistant Curator, Kettle’s Yard

Shanay Jhaveri
Head of Visual Arts, Barbican

Anna Jones
Head of Communications, South London Gallery

William Kentridge
Artist

Dean Kissick
Art Critic and Culture Writer

Alicia Knock
Head Curator for the Contemporary Creation and Prospective Department, Centre Pompidou; Curator of Paris Noir

Nathan Ladd
Independent Curator

Emma Lavigne
Curator of Contemporary Art, Musée National d’Art Moderne

T.J Lax
Curator of Media and Performance, MoMA

Sarah Lea
Curator, Royal Academy of Arts

Delaine LeBas
Artist

Robert Leckie
Director, Gasworks

Amber Li
Assistant Curator, Barbican

Klara Liden
Artist

Andrea Lissoni
Artistic Director, Haus der Kunst

Duane Linklater
Artist

Tanya Lukin Linklater
Artist

Harriet Loffler
Curator, The Women’s Art Collection, Murray Edwards College

Stephanie Macdonald
Co-founder, 6A Architect

Tarini Malik
Shane Akeroyd Associate Curator of the British Pavilion at the 60th Venice  Biennale and Curator, Royal Academy

Jumana Manna
Artist

Christian Marclay
Artist

Teresa Margolles
Artist

Steve McQueen
Artist

Lindsey Mendick
Artist

Travis Miles
Senior Exhibitions Registrar, Tate Modern

Charlie Mills
Curator & Producer, Bold Tendencies

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
Artist

Fiontan Moran
Assistant Curator, Tate Modern

Sarah Munro
Director, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art