Lecture Pirkko Siitari

Conferinta / Lecture Pirkko Siitari, Director KIASMA
joi / Thursday 04.10.2012, 18h00
MNAC Auditorium, etaj 4

Invitat de / Invited by Ruxandra Balaci

Pirkko Siitari, Director KIASMA - Muzeul de arta contemporana, Helsinki si Ruxandra Balaci, Director Artistic MNAC despre strategiile muzeelor aflate in recesiune, despre KIASMA si expozitia subREAL.

Pirkko Siitari, Director of Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki and Ruxandra Balaci, Artistic Director of MNAC Bucharest, in conversation about the strategy of the museums in recession, a introduction about KIASMA and some comments about the subREAL retrospective.
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Pirkko Siitari este director al KIASMA, Muzeul de Arta Contemporana din Helsinki din 2010.

Inainte de a ocupa pozitia actuala, Pirkko Siitari a fost curator sef la KIASMA, director la Kerya Art Museum si curator sef al Finnish Museum of Photography. Timp de 10 ani a ocupat functia de director al Northern Photographic Centre. Detine o diploma de master a University of Jyväskylä. A studiat teoria artei contemporane la Jan van Eyck Akademie din Maastricht.

Multitudinea proiectelor co-curatoriate include: ARS11 (2011), Common things - Finnish and Swedish contemporary art (2010), expozitii ale colectiilor Kiasma (2009-2010), Black and White - Japanese photography (2008) si Counter narratives (2007).

Pirkko Siitari este membra a Consiliului National de Arta Fotografica al Ministerului Educatiei si Culturii din Finlanda.
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Pirkko Siitari is Director of Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki) since 2010.

Before taking up her present appointment, Pirkko Siitari was the Chief Curator of Kiasma, the Director of the Kerava Art Museumand the Chief Curator of the Finnish Museum of Photography.For 10 years she was the Director of the Northern Photographic Centre. Pirkko Siitari holds a master’s degree from the University of Jyväskylä. She has studied the theory of contemporary art at Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht.

Her many co-curatorial projects include ARS11 (2011), Common things - Finnish and Swedish contemporary art (2010), Kiasma collection exhibitions (2009-2010), Black and White - Japanese photography (2008) and Counter narratives (2007).

Pirkko Siitari is a member of The National Council for Photographic Art which operates under the Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland.

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