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Curatorial Roundtable: Anca Rujoiu (Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden)

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Anca Rujoiu is a curator and editor living in Singapore. As curator of exhibitions and later head of publications (2013–18), she was a member of the founding team of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore contributing to the institution’s numerous exhibitions, public programs, and publishing projects. She worked closely with the Centre’s Founding Director, Ute Meta Bauer, to align the institutional infrastructure holistically with the curatorial program. The initial three-year overarching program, Place.Labour.Capital., built connections across research, residencies, and exhibitions with artists Simryn Gill, Allan Sekula, Trinh T. Minh-ha, to name a few. Rujoiu was the co-editor of several publications including, the artist’s books Thao Nguyen Phan: Voyages de Rhodes (2018) and Simryn Gill & Michael Taussig: Becoming Palm (2017). In 2019, she was the co-curator of the third edition of the Art Encounters Biennial in Timișoara, approached as a one-year institutional program. As part of the curatorial initiative, FormContent in London, Rujoiu worked on a nomadic project, It’s Moving from I to It (2012-2014), that took the format of a script comprised of seventeen “scenes”: exhibitions, workshops, commissioned texts, and the like. She is a PhD candidate at Monash University, Melbourne. Drawing on feminist methodologies, her PhD research, First-Person Institutions, focuses on institution-building, artists’ archives, and transnational imaginaries across the Asia-Pacific region. Whether working in a contemporary art center, an independent space, an art school, or in the context of a biennial, Rujoiu has been passionate about decentering curatorial practice and stretching the possibilities of how cultural production can be made public, experienced, discussed, or written about. Register here.

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