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| In September 2007, the eighth Artist Pension Trust was launched. Please find information about the APT Dubai Director and Curatorial Committee Members below. |
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November Paynter, Director |
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British born November Paynter received a Masters degree from the Royal College of Art, London, in Curating Contemporary Art. She has previously worked at the Barbican and the Institute of Contemporary Arts before moving to Istanbul in 2002 where she soon took a position as Assistant Curator at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center. She was one of two assistant curators of the 9th International Istanbul Biennial in 2005. Among other achievements, she is the 2003 recipient of the Premio Lorenza Bonaldi per L'arte - EnterPrize and the first curator under the age of 30 to be recognized with this award. Exhibitions she has curated include: ,Coming Up; Making Space; Tracey Istanbulda, the first solo exhibition by Tracey Emin in Turkey; Another Zero; and How Can You Resist, Freewaves, LA, a program of new media work from the Middle East. She most recently held the position of Consultant Curator at Tate Modern for the exhibition Global Cities, before moving back to Istanbul in July 2007.
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Mai Abu ElDahab, Curatorial Committee Member |
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Mai Abu ElDahab is Artistic Director at Objectif_Exhibitions in Antwerp. Prior to this position, in 2007 she was co-editor at Aprior Magazine 14, and
guest editor of CAC Interviu Summer 2007, curator-in-residence at PROGR in Bern, and visiting tutor at the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 2006, she was curator of Philip at Project Arts Center in Dublin, co-editor of Dotdotdot 13, and co-curator of the unrealized Manifesta set to take place in Nicosia.
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Vasif Kortun, Curatorial Committee Member |
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Vasif Kortun is the director of Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center. He was the founding Director of Proje4L Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art (2001-2003), and the Chief Curator and Director of the 3rd International Istanbul Biennial (1992) and the Co-Director of the 9th International Istanbul Biennial (2005). Between 1994 and 1997, he worked as the founding Director of the Museum of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Jahresring 51: Szene Turkei: Abseits aber Tor, a book on Turkey co-authored with Erden Kosova was published in 2004. Kortun received the 9th annual Award for Curatorial Excellence given by the Center fro Curatorial Studies in 2006.
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Natasa Petresin-Bachelez, Curatorial Committee Member |
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Natasa Petresin-Bachelez is an independent curator and critic based in Paris and Ljubljana, Slovenia. She finished her Master studies at EHESS, where she has been a PhD candidate since 2006. At EHESS she is co-directing a seminar on artistic and curatorial practices, together with P. Falguieres, E. Lebovici and H.U. Obrist.
She has published articles on contemporary and new media art in numerous international exhibition catalogues and art magazines, and is a contributing
editor for the online review ARTMargins: Contemporary Central and Eastern European Visual Culture (UC Santa Barbara). She has curated
exhibitions and projects in Slovenia, Austria, Slovak Republic, Sweden, Iceland, Germany, The Netherlands and France, most recently she guest-curated the exhibition at the festival transmediale.08 in Berlin.
Between 2004 and 2006 she has been the president of the jury for intermedia arts at the Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia. She joined the Slovenian section of AICA in 2004 and IKT in 2006. In 2005 she was nominated for the 3rd Lorenzo Bonaldi Art Prize (at Museum Gamec, Bergamo) for young international curators. |
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Tirdad Zolghadr, Curatorial Committee Member |
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Tirdad Zolghadr is a freelance critic / curator based in Berlin. He writes for frieze, Parkett, Bidoun and other publications, and is editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine. Zolghadr has curated events in a wide range of venues, including co-curating the international Sharjah Biennial 2005. He is a founding member of the Shahrzad Art & Design collective, and has published his first novel Softcore with Telegram Books London.
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Bénédicte Ramade, Curatorial Associate |
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Bénédicte Ramade is an art historian, the topic of both her BA and MA being Gordon Matta-Clark and his legacy. She also prepared a Ph.D. dealing with ecological issues raised by American contemporary art. Since 1999, she has been an associate editor with the monthly French art magazine L’œil, and she also wrote articles about contemporary art for the Canadian magazine Parachute. For three years, she created, edited and produced a weekly program dedicated to the French art scene on national radio France Culture.
Since 2005, Ramade has been a freelance curator. Her next project will take place at the Villa Arson art centre, Nice, in summer 2008. All these activities have provided her with an extended knowledge of the French art scene. It should also be noted that she has been entrusted with the task of granting art fellowships to young artists on behalf of the French Foreign Ministry’s culture department. Although the emphasis of her work has mostly been on landscape, the environment and nature; as well as the art of display; she maintains a broader interest in the study of all art forms.
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Alexandra Blättler, Curatorial Associate |
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