From Conversations on Curating at the Nordic House

Before we let it collapse into a job title, neat and tidy, signing off an email signature, let’s pause again, and ask again: what is the sýningarstjóri here, now, in Iceland, in practice?

I asked the curators how they considered the decision to show Carl Andre’s work in light of the contested history of Ana Mendieta’s death.

I turned to what has always brought hope and wonder into my life. Art.

Maybe the task now isn’t to make louder or more virtuous art, but to resist the pressure to resolve everything too neatly.

Are Icelandic museums, in a structural sense, curated?

What conversations do you wish there was more space for in the art scene?

Is it the case that the visual arts scene overflows with praise, but criticism has gone missing, presumed dead?