Curating sense of place with Raimundas MalaIšauskas

In connection with Copenhagen Architechture Festival 2022, which this year has the theme “Sense of Place”, Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you to a talk from a curatorial point of view about ‘Sense of Place’ in the contemporary art exhibition. The Lithuanian curator Raimundas Malašauskas, one of the biggest names on the international art scene, talks about his curatorial experiments. Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s curator Henriette Bretton-Meyer and curator Charlotte Sprogøe, who curated the Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s off-site summer exhibition Copenhagen, talk about their curatorial view of how art today plays together with the places it occupies and the contemporary times it is a part of.

The event is free and the talk will be in english.

Raimundas Malašauskas is a curator and writer. His curatorial work is shaped by the belief in the natural creativity of the public. He has presented art exhibitions through hypnosis séances —his ongoing Hypnotic Show—and variety performances, such as in his ongoing Clifford Irving Show. His writing combines his interest in contemporary art, music, doubling, food, history, science, his native Lithuania and time travel, among other subjects.

Malašauskas recently worked as one of the agents of dOCUMENTA(13), this summer in Kassel. Previous to this, he was curator of the Satellite exhibition series at the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris in 2010-2011; a curator at Artists Space, New York in 2007-2009; and, visiting curator at California College of the Arts, San Francisco in 2007 to 2008. Since 2011, he teaches at the Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam. From 1995 to 2006, Malašauskas worked at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, where he curated numerous exhibitions, including the IX Baltic Triennial, Black Market Worlds (2005). There, he also produced the first two seasons of the weekly television show CAC TV, an experimental merger of commercial television and contemporary art, which ran under the slogan: “Every program is a pilot, every program is the final episode.