Art Basel Cities

October 10, 2018

Ariana Reines and Cecilia Pavón read excerpts from Reines’s poetry collection Coeur de Lion, which was translated into Spanish by Pavón, a poet, former co-director of the exhibition space Belleza y Felicidad, and translator of several key art texts in the contemporary curriculum. After, they discussed the peculiarities of translating poetry and the complexities and joys of cultural transactions.

Organizer/venue/city: Art Basel Cities, La Internacional Argentina, Buenos Aires

October 8, 2018

The award-winning poet, playwright, performing artist, and translator Ariana Reines delivered a slide talk looking at her performances, exhibitions, and public projects for various international museums between 2012 and 2016, which she describes as ‘poetry by increasingly other means.’ Based in New York, Reines is the author of several books, most recently Telephone (2018), and her poetry, essays, and interviews have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Bomb, Granta, Harpers, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and more. She has taught at Columbia University, the European Graduate School, New York University, Tufts, Naropa, The New School, and Yale, among others.

Organizer/venue/city: Art Basel Cities, MALBA, Buenos Aires

October 2, 2018

Juliane Rebentisch presented the central ideas and questions of her book Aesthetics of Installation, recently published in Argentina by Caja Negra. With the Buenos Aires-based independent curator Federico Baeza, she discussed the geographically and historically situated condition of installation art.

Organizer/venue/city: Art Basel Cities, Goethe Institut, Buenos Aires

October 1, 2018

This lecture examining the contradictions of contemporary exhibition making – including the risks of a flattened identification of art and politics – was delivered by Juliane Rebentisch, a professor of philosophy and aesthetics at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main, Germany, where she has also served as vice president since 2014. From 2015 to 2018 she was president of the German Society for Aesthetics, and she is a member of the Research Council of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. 

Organizer/venue/city: Art Basel Cities, UNTREF, Buenos Aires

September 10, 2018

In this Masterclass, San Francisco Chronicle Art Critic Charles Desmarais and Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín Director María Mercedes González discussed the museum of the future: how have institutions changed over the past years? What should the priorities of future museums be? And what roles should they ultimately play? This Masterclass was held in English, with simultaneous translation to Spanish.

Organizers/Venue/City: Art Basel Cities, MALBA, Buenos Aires

September 9, 2018

American artist David Horvitz initiated this talk with a mass participatory action in homage to French artist Marcel Duchamp, in which 200 balloons were released in the sky, each attached to a mile-long string. Following the performance, Horvitz discussed his affinity for Duchamp and his inspirations for this work, titled Señalamiento del cielo (Signaling the Sky) (2018), conceived specifically for ‘Hopscotch (Rayuela)’. Free and open to the public, the discussion was moderated by Mariano López Seoane, Talks Program coordinator, Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires and faculty at NYU Buenos Aires; and András Szántó, author and cultural strategy consultant, New York.

Organizers/Venue/City: Art Basel Cities, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires

September 9, 2018

In his work, artist Santiago de Paoli blends figuration and abstraction to create surreal tableaux. At the Museo de la Cárcova, he guided the audience through his site-specific ‘Hopscotch (Rayuela)’ installation Free Time (Tiempo libre) (2018) and activated links between his original works and the museum’s collection of copies from the past. The discussion was moderated by Mariano López Seoane, Talks Program coordinator, Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires and faculty at NYU Buenos Aires; and András Szántó, author and cultural strategy consultant, New York. Free and open to the public, it was held in Spanish, with simultaneous translation to English.

Organizers/Venue/City: Art Basel Cities, Museo de la Cárcova, Buenos Aires

September 9, 2018

Buenos Aires-based artist Mariela Scafati borrows from the visual codes of geometric abstraction, political activism, and design to engage with the viewer. For this talk, she enabled a conversation between her practice and the works on view at the Museo de la Cárcova, including her 'Hopscotch (Rayuela)' work Niebla (2018), and discussed her creative tactics and methods with the audience. The talk was moderated by Mariano López Seoane, Talks Program coordinator, Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires and faculty at NYU Buenos Aires; and András Szántó, author and cultural strategy consultant, New York. Free and open to the public, it was held in Spanish, with simultaneous translation to English.

Organizers/Venue/City: Art Basel Cities, Museo de la Cárcova, Buenos Aires

September 9, 2018

For ‘Hopscotch (Rayuela)’, artist Gabriel Chaile has created (Retrato de Diego Núñez) / Diego (Portrait of Diego Núñez) (2018), a sculptural installation that doubles as a clay oven in which locals can prepare their food. In this talk, which began at the artwork site and ended at Fundacíon Proa, he discussed the importance of community dialog to the function of his work. The talk was moderated by Mariano López Seoane, Talks Program coordinator, Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires and faculty at NYU Buenos Aires; and András Szántó, author and cultural strategy consultant, New York. Free and open to the public, it was held in Spanish, with simultaneous translation to English.

Organizers/Venue/City: Art Basel Cities, La Boca waterfront & Fundacíon Proa, Buenos Aires

September 8, 2018

Argentinian artist Eduardo Basualdo has included the Río de la Plata as a medium in his ‘Hopscotch (Rayuela)’ work Perspective of Absence (Perspectiva de la ausencia) (2018), which interrogates the relationships between earth and water and people and place. This talk took place at sunset, allowing the audience to discuss with the artist while enjoying the Asociación Argentina de Pesca’s unique position on the river’s shores. This talk was moderated by Mariano López Seoane, Talks Program coordinator, Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires and faculty at NYU Buenos Aires; and András Szántó, author and cultural strategy consultant, New York. Free and open to the public, it was held in Spanish, with simultaneous translation to English.

Organizers/Venue/City: Art Basel Cities, Asociación Argentina de Pesca, Buenos Aires

September 8, 2018

For this talk, Argentinian artist Luciana Lamothe used her 'Hopscotch (Rayuela)' work Starting Zone (Zona de inicio) (2018) on Plaza República Oriental del Uruguay as a stage. While walking audience members through her installation, Lamothe explained her creative process and answered questions. Creating a dialog with the surrounding landscape, the work is intended to be accessible to the broad public, with or without any art background. This talk was moderated by Mariano López Seoane, Talks Program coordinator, Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires and faculty at NYU Buenos Aires; and András Szántó, author and cultural strategy consultant, New York. Free and open to the public, it was held in Spanish, with simultaneous translation to English.

Organizers/Venue/City: Art Basel Cities, Plaza República Oriental del Uruguay, Buenos Aires

September 7, 2018

What are the driving forces behind the artworld’s eventual leap toward the future? In this Masterclass, four leading figures addressed the topic in an open conversation with local art students, professors, and scholars, aiming to assess the key elements for regeneration. Speakers were Cecilia Alemani, Artistic Director of the 2018 Art Basel Cities Week in Buenos Aires, New York; Marc Spiegler, Global Director, Art Basel, Basel; Noah Horowitz, Director, Art Basel Americas, New York; and András Szántó, author and cultural strategy consultant, New York. The discussion was moderated by Diana Wechsler, Director, Bienal Sur; Director, Master's Program in Curatorial Studies, UNTREF, Buenos Aires. Free and open to the public, this Masterclass was held in English, with simultaneous translation to Spanish.

Organizers/Venue/City: UNTREF, Auditorio Rectorado, Buenos Aires

September 7, 2018

In this talk, presented by UBS and Art Basel, Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca engaged in an open conversation on his work and the development of the art scene in Buenos Aires with Pablo León de la Barra, Curator at Large, Latin America, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and curator of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative. Free and open to the public, the talk was held In Spanish.

Organizers/Venue/City: Art Basel Cities & UBS, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires

September 6, 2018

More than 30 years after his passing, Stan VanDerBeek remains one of the most radical American filmmakers. At this talk, his estate managers – daughter Sara VanDerBeek and Chelsea Spengemann – offered an introduction to the artist's work just before his Cine Dreams: Future Cinema of the Mind (1972) was projected in the Planetario Galileo Galilei. The discussion was moderated by Mariano López Seoane, Talks Program coordinator, Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires and faculty at NYU Buenos Aires; and András Szántó, author and cultural strategy consultant, New York. Free and open to the public, it was held in English, with simultaneous translation to Spanish.

Organizers/Venue/City: Art Basel Cities, Planetario Galileo Galilei, Buenos Aires

September 6, 2018

Leandro Katz is an artist, writer, and filmmaker, based in Buenos Aires and Los Angeles. In this talk, he spoke about his new 'Hopscotch (Rayuela)' installation Alfabeto lunar / Lunar Alphabet (2018), which looks at the idea of a universal language. Katz discussed his work in the context of his larger oeuvre and then welcomed questions from the audience. The discussion was moderated by Mariano López Seoane, Talks Program coordinator, Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires and faculty at NYU Buenos Aires; and András Szántó, author and cultural strategy consultant, New York. Free and open to the public, it was held in English, with simultaneous translation to Spanish.

Organizers/Venue/City: Art Basel Cities, Esplanade of the Biblioteca Nacional Mariano, Buenos Aires

September 5, 2018

Cultural consultant András Szántó moderated this Masterclass, which aimed to shed light on the peculiarities of communication, public relations, and marketing within the arts. He and three international guest speakers from media fields addressed participants. Speakers were Charles Desmarais, Art Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco; Andrew Goldstein, Editor-in-Chief, Artnet News, New York; and Calum Sutton, President and CEO, Sutton PR, London. Free and open to the public, this Masterclass was held in English, with simultaneous translation to Spanish.

Organizers/Venue/City: Art Basel Cities, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires

September 5, 2018 

Patton Hindle is the Director of Arts at Kickstarter, as well as an author and the founder and a partner in yours mine & ours, a gallery on New York’s Lower East Side. In this workshop, she discussed the advantages of crowdfunding as a reliable source of capital for cultural initiatives. This Masterclass was held in English, with simultaneous translation to Spanish.

Organizers/Venue/City: Art Basel Cities, Museo Larreta, Buenos Aires

September 5, 2018

Patton Hindle is Director of Arts at Kickstarter, as well as an author and the founder and a partner in yours mine & ours, a gallery on New York’s Lower East Side. In this Masterclass, she addressed what it takes to keep a gallery viable and how to anchor it within a cultural landscape. The event was free and open to the public.

August 27, 2018

Juliana Huxtable is an artist, writer, and DJ based in New York City. Her multifaceted practice, which includes performance, writing, painting, and photography, addresses contemporary preoccupations relating to digitality and the body, among others. In this talk, Huxtable discussed the cultural, social, and political issues relevant to her work. She then held an open conversation with an audience of art students and scholars. Juliana Huxtable was in conversation with Valentina Liernur, artist and professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, and Carlos Huffman, artist and director of the art program at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires. The discussion took place in English, with simultaneous translation to Spanish.

Organizers/Venue/City: Art Basel Cities & Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires

August 13, 2018

Luciana Brito is the president of ABACT, the Brazilian Association of Art Galleries. Located in São Paulo, her namesake gallery’s focus lies with Brazilian and Latin American positions, as well as emerging and established artists, such as Alex Katz and Waldemar Cordeiro. In this workshop, Brito discussed the advantages of collaboration between galleries and the impact the Brazilian association has had in the development of the local art scene with local gallerists.

Organizers/Venue/City: Casa de Victoria Ocampo, Casa de Victoria Ocampo, Buenos Aires

August 13, 2018

In this Masterclass, Ana Castella, director at joségarcía, mx gallery, shared her experience as the co-organizer of CONDO, and discussed possible strategies for international expansion with a group of local gallerists. CONDO is a platform that seeks to enable collaborations among galleries across national borders. Initiated in 2016 in London by Carlos / Ishikawa Owner Vanessa Carlos, it has since expanded to New York City, São Paulo, Shanghai and Mexico City, where it is coordinated by Castella.

Organizers/Venue/City: Casa de Victoria Ocampo, Casa de Victoria Ocampo, Buenos Aires

May 25, 2018 

Also held in collaboration with arteBA, the second conversation in the Art Basel Cities Talks Program in Buenos Aires series addressed how our experience of art changes when it is exhibited in unconventional spaces. Speakers were Alejandra Aguado, Co-director of Móvil and Independent Curator (Buenos Aires) and Cecilia Alemani, Artistic Director, Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires (New York). Alemani is curating 'Hopscotch (Rayuela)', a citywide exhibition, to take place during the Art Basel Cities Week in Buenos Aires from September 6-12, 2018.

Organizer/Venue/City: arteBA, arteBA, Buenos Aires

May 24, 2018 

This talk, held in collaboration with arteBA, the largest contemporary art fair in Latin America, focused on the impact of private investment on the development of the artworld and bridged a conversation amongst leading Argentine and international speakers: Enrique Avogadro, Minister of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires); Patrick Foret, Director Business Initiatives, Art Basel and Chair of the Board, Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires (Hong Kong); and Alec Oxenford, President of arteBA Foundation (Buenos Aires). The event was moderated by András Szántó, Curator of the Art Basel Cities Talks Program (New York).

Organizer/Venue/City: arteBA, arteBA, Buenos Aires