Artists Space

Danh Vo in Conversation with Elena Filipovic

Conversation
September 18, 2010, 7pm

Artists Space presents a conversation between Danh Vo and curator Elena Filipovic.

A vintage, framed black and white photograph of five priests dressed in all black stiffly pose before the camera for a portrait. The two men sitting closest to the viewer hold hands.
Danh Vo. Installation view from Autoerotic Asphyxiation, 2010. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A vintage, framed black and white photograph of five priests dressed in all black stiffly pose before the camera for a portrait. The two men sitting closest to the viewer hold hands.]

Danh Vo (b. 1975, Ba Ria, Vietnam) recent exhibitions include 6th Berlin Biennial (2010); Gwangju Biennial (2010); Where the Lions Are, Kunsthalle Basel (2009); Package Tour, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2008).

Elena Filipovic is curator at WIELS, Brussels. She recently conceived the traveling retrospective Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Specific Objects without Specific Form, of which Danh Vo was invited to curate the first version of the exhibition at WIELS (January 16 – April 25, 2010), followed by Carol Bove at the Fondation Beyeler, Basel (May 21 – August 29, 2010) and Tino Seghal at the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (January 28 – April 25, 2011). She was co-curator of the 5th Berlin Biennial. She also recently curated the first major exhibition of Marcel Duchamp in Latin America, at the Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paolo and Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires. She is guest curator of the satellite program for emerging artists at the Jeu de Paume, Paris.