Speaker Series: Steffi Hessler

Stefanie Hessler is a curator, writer, editor, and the director of Swiss Institute (SI) in New York. At SI, Hessler has cocurated solo exhibitions by Ali Cherri, Lap-See Lam, and Raven Chacon, as well as initiated the curatorial project Spora, which invites artists to transform the institution through what she calls “environmental institutional critique.” Previously, as the director of Kunsthall Trondheim in Norway, Hessler co-led the exhibition Sex Ecologies and edited the accompanying compendium on Queer ecologies, sexuality, and care in more-than-human worlds (with Seed Box and MIT Press, 2021). Selected projects as an independent curator include the 17th MOMENTA Biennale, Sensing Nature, Montreal; Joan Jonas: Moving Off the Land II, Ocean Space, Venice; the symposium Practices of Attention, 33rd Bienal de São Paulo; the 6th Athens Biennale; and Tidalectics, TBA21–Augarten, Vienna. Hessler is the author of Prospecting Ocean (MIT Press, 2019), and has edited over a dozen volumes. She currently serves on the advisory board of the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM), is a founding committee member of the New York chapter of the Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC), and forms a part of the On Seeing editorial collective between MIT Press and the Brown University Library.

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For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail ccs@bard.edu.

Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: CCS Bard, Classroom 102

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