International Adviser

These two specialists, who include curators, researchers, and journalists, are from all different parts of the world and are working as International Advisors for CAMK. During their two-year employment at the museum, they will be active in offering world art information to CAMK in the form of essay contributions to the annually published magazine "Art Gamadas," lectures, etc.

2002-2004 | 2004-2006 | 2006-2008 | 2008-2010

Juliana Engberg

Juliana Engberg

curator, writer, publisher and designer has been described as "Australia's most maverick and ambitious curator of contemporary art" by ArtForum magazine and has worked with some of the leading international artists of the last and this century. In June 2002, Juliana was appointed Artistic Director at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in Melbourne. She is also currently curator of the Melbourne Festival Visual Arts Programs 2001 -2003 where she has recently shown Tacita Dean, HUMID, Juan Cruz, Jean-Jacques Rullier, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Hanney and Dade, Narelle Jubelin and Christine Borland in a series of eight significant projects. She was the inaugural curatorial resident at Spike Artspace, UK in 2000-1 where she curated HUMID, SQUEEZE and the Spike Island Invitational, and will be Senior Curator of the Art & Industry Biennale, Christchurch, New Zealand in 2002. In 1999 she was the Artistic Director of the internationally acclaimed Melbourne International Biennial 1999 Signs of Life, and before accepting this commission was Senior Curator at the Museum of Modern Art (Heide), Melbourne, Senior Curator of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Assistant Director of the Monash University Gallery, and Director of the formative contemporary art space the Ewing and George Paton Galleries, The University of Melbourne. She has been the curator of over 300 exhibitions including the above and other major events such as Jenny Holzer's Lustmord, Barbara Kruger Projects, Downtown: Ruscha, Rooney and Arkley, Colonial Post Colonial, The Real Thing, Persona Cognita, The Aberrant Object: Woman Dada and Surrealism, Susan Norrie Projects 1990 - 1995; 1956 Melbourne Modernity and the XVI Olympiad. She was co-curator and coordinator with Ewen McDonald of All this And Heaven Too, the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art and The Sacred and Profane, the Adelaide Festival's Arts programme. A prolific writer and editor, she has produced over 1,500 articles, essays and catalogues for local and international art journals, newspapers, catalogues as well as contributing to numerous conferences and forums. She is Adjunct Professor in Architecture and Art at RMIT University, Visiting Critic at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, and an external tutor for Goldsmith's College, London in the curatorial course. She has been on numerous committees including the VACB, Arts Victoria, Museums Australia, Arts Leaders 2011, and most recently was part of the selection and process committee overseeing the visual arts commissions for the Olympic Stadium and Park for the Sydney Olympics 2000. She is a sought after commentator on the arts and contributes regularly to the ABC Radio programmes, Night Club, Breakfast and Arts Today, and writes occasional articles for major the Age.

Lynn Gumpert

Lynn Gumpert

Lynn Gumpert is director of the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center at New York University. She has held curatorial positions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Jewish Museum in New York and has consulted for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

Hou Hanru

Hou Hanru

Born 1963. Graduated (MA) from the Central Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing (BA. 1985, MA. 1988), has lived and worked in Paris since 1990 as an independent critic and curator. Curator of Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China, 2000, Project Rooms, ARCO, Madrid, Spain, 2000, Advisor (professor) at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Curator of the French Pavilion, Venice Biennale (1999), Member of The Global Advisory Committee of Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA. A juror of the Hugo Boss Prize 1998,The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, selector of the Prize of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per l'Arte, Turin, Italy (1998), and a member of the curatorial committee of the Biennale de l'Image, Paris, France (Centre National de la Photographie and L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts), 1998. A Member of the Curatorial Team for the Third Asian Pacific Triennale, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, 1999.

Salah M.Hassan

Salah M.Hassan

Chair of the Department of History of Art at Cornell University and professor of African and Diaspora art history and visual cultures at Africana Studies also at Cornell University. He is editor and founder of NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and consulting editor for African Arts and Atlantica. He authored and edited several books including Unpacking Europe (NAi Publishers, 2001); Authentic/Ex-Centric (2001); Gendered Visions: The Art of Contemporary Africana Women Artists (1997), Art and Islamic Literacy Among the Hausa of Northern Nigeria (1992). He contributed to art journals and anthologies including The Art of African Fashion (1998), Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies, edited by D. Fairchild Ruggles (1999); and Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to Marketplace edited by Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor (1999). Hassan is the curator of Unpacking Europe, to open at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, December 2001-March, 2002; Authentic/Ex-Centric at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001); EV+A 2001 Expanded, Limerick, Ireland; : Self and Other at Apex Art Gallery, New York, 2000; Modernit(ies) and Memor(ies) at the 47th Venice Biennale, 1997; Seven Stories about Modern African, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1995 and Malmo Kunsthal, 1996; Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa at the Whitechapel, London, and the Mamlo Kunstahl, Malmo,1995.

Sarat Chandra Maharaj

Sarat Chandra Maharaj

Lives and works in London and Maastricht. Co-Curator Documenta11.Professor for Art History and Art Theory, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Research Project Fellow, Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht. Rudolf Arnheim-Professur, Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin.
Education
University of Reading, Great Britain. Ph.D. 1985, "The Dialectic of Modernism and Mass Culture: Studies in Postwar British Art". University of South Africa, Witwatersrand & assessor Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Master of Arts. University of South Africa, Durban. (For Blacks of Indian Origin). Bachelor of Arts in Art History, Fine Art and English.
Curatorial work (Selection) 2001
Optical.Retinal.Visual.Conceptual. Museum Boijmanns van Beuningen, Rotterdam. The North European optical oil painting tradition explored through a commissioned map by Richard Hamilton and Sarat Maharaj of Marcel Duchamp's White Box annotations to the Large Glass. 2000-02
Xeno-sonics. Arc en Reve Centre d'Architecture, Bordeaux. Digital suite of visuals and sound collages (Shannon's Theory of communication, Jacques Monod´s DNA sequences and Doverbeach). For Sonic City, Mutations.

Bojana Pejic

Bojana Pejic

Bojana Peji was born in Belgrade in 1948 and studied History of Art at the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Belgrade from 1968 to 1974. She has held scholarships and fellowships in Austria, France, Australia, Germany, and has been writing on contemporary art since 1972. From 1977 to 1991 she was curator at the Student Cultural Center of Belgrade University and organized many exhibitions of Yugoslav and international art. She was editor of art theory journal Moment, Belgrade (1984 .1991) and has lectured in SFR Yugoslavia, France, Australia, Austria, Poland and Germany. Since 1991 she has lived in Berlin and has been a regular contributor to Artforum, art press international, Siksi, neue bildende kunst, zitty (Berlin) and New Moment (Belgrade). She organized the international symposium The Body in Communism at the Literaturhaus,Berlin in 1995. In 1998 she co-curated with Dejan Sretenovic the exhibition of contemporary Serbian art, Focus Belgrade, for the ifa-Galerie Berlin. She was one of the co-curators of the exhibition Aspects/Positions held in the Museum of Contemporary Art ・Foundation Ludwig, Vienna in 1999. She was the chief curator of the exhibition After the Wall - Art and Culture in post-Communist Europe organized by the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, (1999), which was also presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art ・Foundation Ludwig, Budapest (2000) and at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2000-2001).

Anda Rottenberg

Anda Rottenberg

Art historian, art critic and curator. Graduated from Warsaw University in 1971. Practice in an art exhibitions organization since 1969. "In Between" (Polish art if the last 50 years), Chicago 2000, "Forgetting- Amnesia", Bremen, 2000, "Fauna", 1999, "Personal Time (Art from Baltic States)", 1996Director of the Fine Arts Department- Ministry of Culture 1990-1991. Director of the National Gallery of Contemporary Art -Zacheta, 1993-2001. President of AICA Polish Section 1988-1990 and 1991-1993; Vice President of AICA International 1994-2000.