Press Release
Art Basel has today announced Filipa Ramos as the new curator of Art Basel’s Film sector in Basel
Filipa Ramos will curate Film for the first time in 2020, taking over from Maxa Zoller, who has curated the Art Basel in Basel Film sector since 2015.
Filipa Ramos is a writer and editor based in London, where she is Editor-in-Chief of art agenda. She is also a founding curator of Vdrome, an online programme of film screenings by visual artists and filmmakers. Interested in the relationships between contemporary art and cinema, Ramos’ research often focuses on how moving images address environmental and ecological topics.
Ramos also co-curates the symposia and research series 'The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish' for the Serpentine Galleries, London. She is currently preparing 'Animalisk', a group exhibition on becoming other at that will travel to the Bildmuseet Umeå, Sweden this summer and BALTIC, Gateshead in the autumn.
Filipa Ramos commented: 'I’m delighted to join the team of Art Basel and lead its Film Program. During the past years, time-based media have solidly consolidated their position within contemporary art. With its cross-disciplinary roots and influences, artists’ cinema plays a central role within this important thread and Art Basel offers a unique gathering occasion in which artists, filmmakers, institutions and global audiences come together. I am excited to pursue with the outstanding legacy of my predecessors and to continue presenting key topics and visionary images for our present and future times.'