BIENNALE OF SYDNEY ANNOUNCES 2016 CURATORIAL ATTACHéS

Stephanie Rosenthal, the twentieth Biennale of Sydney’s artistic director, has revealed that she’ll be appointing what she’s calling “attachés” to work with her to shape the biennale’s 2016 exhibition. The team includes thirteen curators, writers, and theorists, as follows:

Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, cofounders and curators, Art Reoriented, Munich and New York.

Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow, curatorial manager, International Art, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art

Jessica Cerasi, curator and exhibition manager, Carroll/Fletcher, London

Stephen Gilchrist, associate lecturer, University of Sydney and visiting Australian studies curator, Harvard Art museums, Harvard University, Cambridge

Anna Gritz, freelance curator and curator of film and performance at South London Gallery, London

Mami Kataoka, chief curator, Mori Museum, Tokyo

Hicham Khalidi, associate curator, Fondation Galeries Lafayette, Paris

Pablo Léon de la Barra, UBS MAP curator for Latin America, Guggenheim Museum, New York and artistic director, Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro

André Lepecki, associate professor at the department of performance studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Markus Miessen, architect, consultant, and writer based in Berlin

Aveek Sen, curator, writer, and senior assistant editor, The Telegraph, Kolkata

Rosenthal has held the position of Chief Curator at the Hayward Gallery in London since 2007, where she is organized exhibitions like “MIRRORCITY,” 2014 and “Ana Mendieta: Traces,” 2013.