Internationally renowned curators Yung Ma and Susanne Pffeffer join us for an afternoon of conversation spanning their curatorial methodologies and their careers working in some of the most important contemporary art institutions in Asia and Europe. Their visits are supported by the International Visiting Curators Program, developed and presented by UNSW Art and Design in partnership with Artspace, Gadigal/Sydney.
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Yung Ma is Curator of the Contemporary Art and Prospective Department at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, a role that was created in collaboration with the K11 Art Foundation. Formerly Associate Curator of Moving Image at M+ in Hong Kong, he had been part of M+’s core curatorial team for since its inception in 2011, and twice co-curator of the Hong Kong Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2013 and 2009). At M+, he looked after the institution’s moving-image portfolio, helping to define and build the collection while conceiving the ongoing M+ Screenings series and the 2015 exhibition Mobile M+: Moving Images.
Susanne Pfeffer is an art historian and curator based in Germany. She has been Director at the Fridericianum in Kassel since 2013. She was curator of the German Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, presenting Anne Imhof’s exhibition Faust, which was awarded the Golden Lion for best national pavilion. She curated the Swiss Pavilion at 2015 Venice Biennale, presenting Pamela Rosenkranz’s project Our Product. Pfeffer has served as a curator for the São Paulo Biennale and the Lyon Biennale, as well as the Tel Aviv Art Museum, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and the Museion Bozen. She was previously Chief Curator of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2007–12), curator and consultant at MoMA PS1, New York, and Artistic Director of Künstlerhaus Bremen (2004–6).
