Oriol Vilanova, Anything, Everything, 2015-ongoing. Courtesy: the artist and M – Museum Leuven.
Winter 2018
Building on the success of our Collecting as Practice in 2017, Delfina Foundation is pleased to announce our 2018 activities under the theme, including an exhibition, residencies and public talks programme.
Collecting as Practice is a ground-breaking programme exploring the philosophy, psychology and politics of collecting has thus far included 15 residencies for collectors, artists and curators as well as collaborations with the V&A Museum, Tate and the Horniman Museum, among others. Directed by Aaron Cezar, Collecting as Practice was initiated in 2017. To see last year’s programme and documentation please click here.
Exhibition
Ala Younis: Plan For Feminist Greater Baghdad
01/02/2018 — 24/03/2018
Exhibition
Talks Programme
This season of Collecting as Practice brings together collectors, curators and thinkers to raise provocations around collections, museums and markets across the world. Curated by Rose Lejeune, the talks programme looks at the development and presentation of collections, along with ;alternative ways of interpreting them through art historical revisionism and other forms of scholarship such as publications, interventions and exhibitions with a transnational perspective.
De-constructing Collections: Artistic interventions and strategies in museums
10/02/2018
Panel
In Conversation: Mimi Brown and Haro Cumbusyan on Patronage and Social Change
28/02/2018
Talk
De-constructing Collections: The Colonial Past and Contemporary International Collections
08/03/2018
Panel
Revising Modernisms in the Gulf Region: Mini-symposium with Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi
13/03/2018
Panel
From Country to Continent: Collecting and Supporting Contemporary Art in Morocco and Beyond
15/03/2018
Panel
And at Art Basel Hong Kong:
The Art of the Commission: Funding Cultural Production
28 March 2018, 12:00-13:30
This conversation, moderated by Delfina Foundation Director Aaron Cezar, explores the different frameworks that organizations have adopted and developed in order to provide the necessary resources to enable artistic and curatorial production.
The Evolving Collector: Collecting as a Beginning
28 March 2018, 13:30-15:00
Through a consideration of collecting as a point of departure, this conversation, moderated by Delfina Foundation Associate Curator Rose Lejeune, hopes to chart what is becoming an expanded—and creative—practice by bringing together a group of individuals who have each taken a path that has somewhat diverged from the traditional notion of what a collector is and does.
Collectors-in-residence
Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi
London: 12/03/2018 — 18/03/2018
Mimi Brown
London: 26/02/2018 — 04/03/2018
Haro Cumbusyan
London: 26/02/2018 — 04/03/2018
Artist and Curators-in-Residence
Lucie Drdova
London: 15/01/2018 — 25/02/2018
Anton Lapov
London: 08/01/2018 — 01/04/2018
Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol
London: 08/01/2018 — 01/04/2018
Katia Sowels
London: 08/01/2018 — 01/04/2018
Nadine Siegert
London: 08/01/2018 — 26/03/2018
Santiago Villanueva
London: 01/02/2018 — 03/05/2018
Amanda Abi Khalil
London: 26/02/2018 — 01/04/2018
Platform
Explore selected outcomes and documentation of the programme.
Ala Younis: Plan For Feminist Greater Baghdad
Stories of the female protagonists behind Baghdad’s modern monuments
Video
Ala Younis: Plan for Feminist Greater Baghdad
Installation photos from the artist’s solo show at Delfina Foundation
Gallery
Collectors in Conversation: Sultan Al Qassemi
On seeking to plug a gap in general knowledge about art from the Arab world
Video
Collectors in Conversation: Haro Cumbusyan
Considering how collectors can support the production of new art
Video
Collectors in Conversation: Mimi Brown
On Spring Workshop, the 5-year initiative she founded in Hong Kong
Video
Delfina Presents: Anton Lapov
Introducing his curatorial and artistic interests, including new media art and obsolete technologies
Video
In Conversation: Santiago Villanueva
Curatorial strategies and the domestic surrealism of house museums
Interview
Revising Gulf Modernisms: Mini Symposium | Part 1
On the history and future of modern architecture in the Gulf
Video
Revising Gulf Modernisms: Mini Symposium | Part 2
On the history and future of modern architecture in the Gulf
Video
De-constructing Collections: The Colonial Past and Contemporary International Collecting
Talk recording
Audio
From Country to Continent: Collecting and Supporting Contemporary Art in Morocco and Beyond
Discussing three current projects based in Morocco
Video
Artistic Interventions and Strategies in Museums
Discussion with Marc Dion, Roel Arkesteijn and Viktor Wynd
Video
Presenting: Amanda Abi Khalil
We revisit our 2018 curator-in-residence
Video
