Invited by Ruxandra Balaci
Thursday 4.10.2012, h18.30 / MNAC Auditorium, et. 4
Pirkko Siitari, Director of Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki and Ruxandra Balaci, Artistic Director of MNAC Bucharest, in conversation about the strategy of the museums in recession, a introduction about KIASMA and some comments about the subREAL retrospective.
Pirkko Siitari is Director of Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki) since 2010. Before taking up her present appointment, she was the Chief Curator of Kiasma, the Director of the Kerava Art Museumand the Chief Curator of the Finnish Museum of Photography.For 10 years she was the Director of the Northern Photographic Centre. Pirkko Siitari holds a master’s degree from the University of Jyväskylä. She has studied the theory of contemporary art at Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht and she is a member of The National Council for Photographic Art which operates under the Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland.
Her many co-curatorial projects include ARS11 (2011), Common things – Finnish and Swedish contemporary art (2010), Kiasma collection exhibitions (2009-2010), Black and White – Japanese photography (2008) and Counter narratives (2007).
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