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.

For this talk, Filipa Ramos will present the 8th Biennale Gherdeina (2022) and the First Vienna Climate Biennale (2024), which will function as case-studies to interrogate forms of curating and the challenges curators face when commissioning time-based media in non-urban contexts, such as environmental concerns and the recognition and promotion of the rights of nature.

Filipa Ramos, PhD, is a writer and curator. She is Lecturer at the Arts Institute of the HGK/FHNW, Basel. Her research focuses on how contemporary art engages with nature and ecology. Ramos has been curator of the Art Basel Film sector (2020-24) and a founding curator of the online artists’ cinema, Vdrome (since 2013). Current projects include BESTIARI, the Catalan representation at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2024) and the arts, humanities, and science festival, The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish (since 2018, with Lucia Pietroiusti). In 2024, she curated Songs for the Changing Seasons for the 1. Klima Biennale Wien (with Pietroiusti) and in 2022, Persons Persone Personen, the 8th Biennale Gherdëina (with Pietroiusti). In 2021, she co-curated Bodies of Water, the 13th Shanghai Biennale (with Andrés Jaque, Pietroiusti, Marina Otero Verzier, and Mi You). Ramos was Editor-in-Chief of e-flux criticism (2013-20), Associate Editor of Manifesta Journal (2009-11), and contributed to documenta 13 (2012) and 14 (2017). She authored Lost and Found (Silvana Editoriale, 2009) and edited Animals (Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press, 2016). Her upcoming book, The Artist as Ecologist, will be published by Lund Humphries in 2025.

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