Hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Jeph Lo is a curator, sound culture researcher, and Co-founder and Director of TheCube Project Space, a nonprofit art organization based in Taipei. His long-term interests encompass Taiwan’s underground and experimental music, noise movement, sound art, and the cultural politics surrounding these practices. Through exhibitions, publications, podcasts, and music festivals, he explores how sound can serve as a means of historical narration, knowledge production, and public exchange. His major curatorial and research projects include ALTERing NATIVism: Sound Cultures in Post-War Taiwan (co-curator, 2014); Sound Meridians: Cultural Counter-mapping through Sound (2019–); and Sonic Shaman: TheCube Forum Music Festival (2022, 2024, and 2026).

Jeph will discuss Sound Meridians: Cultural Counter-mapping through Sound (2019 and ongoing) and Sonic Shaman: TheCube Forum Music Festival (2022 and ongoing) as two examples of how TheCube Project Space has explored sound culture—a central focus of its long-term practice—through different curatorial forms. Grounded in archives, documentation, and research, Sound Meridians brings together curators and artists from Taiwan, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia to create connections and alternative mappings between the sound cultures of Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Sonic Shaman, by contrast, uses the music festival as a curatorial form, weaving together experimental sound, independent music, live art, and lectures performance to create a space for sensory experience and collective listening. Situated at two contrasting ends of sound-based curatorial practice—one oriented toward documentary research and critical reading, the other toward embodied and collective experience—the projects offer different approaches to presenting sound culture. His presentation will trace their initial ideas, their transformations during development, and their eventual realization.

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Hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Jo-Lene Ong is Curator of Buro Stedelijk, the independently managed, multidisciplinary experimental platform situated within the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Her curatorial practice centers on collaboration, research, and long-term projects that reconsider how institutions work with artists and publics. She develops programs emphasizing shared authorship, sustained dialogue, and public engagement, while drawing upon counter-colonial ways of sensing, remembering, and organizing. She began her three-year appointment at Buro Stedelijk in March 2026. Previously, Ong was Curator at esea contemporary in Manchester and Program Advisor for the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Her exhibitions and projects have been presented at institutions including Framer Framed, Kunstinstituut Melly, ILHAM Gallery, the National Art Center Tokyo, and the Mori Art Museum. Her practice frequently engages counter-colonial worldviews, speculative histories, ecological questions, and aesthetic strategies of resistance.

For this session of the Curatorial Roundtable, she will speak about two projects: The development of the three-year curatorial framework for Buro Stedelijk, an independently curated and managed project space inside the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. which acts as an interface between artistic developments in the city and the museum: connecting communities, bridging generations, and bringing the freshest ideas emerging around the museum into the space. Ong will follow this by delving into CounterArchive (2022 - present), a project she initiated that experiments with collective filmmaking as a way of countering the omissions and constructed fictions of colonial archives.

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Hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa is a curator, researcher, and PhD student at Global Studies University in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. She recently served as Director of Curatorial Services at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, where she led curatorial programming and research in contemporary art and supported the institution’s national and international engagements. Her practice spans contemporary art, sound, and archival research, with particular attention to decolonial methodologies, ecological justice, Pan-African cultural exchange, social justice, and the politics of dissent. Muchemwa’s curatorial and scholarly work investigates how small acts of care, solidarity, and collective organization can resist the erasure of experience and create alternative spaces of relation and survival. Her projects include The Oxymoronic Tea Party and Nyami Nyami: Ancestral Frequencies. In 2024, she established the itinerant project Chikuruhuhwa. Her research also encompasses food and seed sovereignty, urban histories, national archives, and art as a method of resistance, repair, and imagining otherwise. Her current doctoral research extends these interests through the study of cultural production, knowledge, and global relations from the Global South.

For this talk, titled “Curating as Worldmaking,” Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa will discuss three exhibitions—Dis(colour)ed Margins, Jazzified: Expressions of Protest, and A Book That Cannot Be Read—and how they shaped her curatorial practice. She will reflect on curating as a way of challenging dominant narratives, creating space for marginalized histories, and questioning what museums allow us to see, know, and remember.

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Hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Natalia Sielewicz is an art historian and writer, currently serving as Chief Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Over the past twelve years, she has curated numerous exhibitions at the museum, most recently Maria Jarema. Cracked Modernism (2026, with Éric de Chassey). In 2026, she curated the Estonian pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, featuring the work of painter Merike Estna. Next year, together with Nikita Kadan, she will co-curate the Baltic Triennial. Her writing and curatorial practice often interrogate feminism, affective politics, and the technological conditions shaping contemporary subjectivity. She is currently working on a large-scale group show for the museum, exploring panic as the dominant condition of perception and action, creating fertile ground for the consolidation of authoritarian and populist forms of power.

Natalia Sielewicz will speak about two exhibitions: Private Settings: Art After the Internet (2014), her first major exhibition at Muzeum Stuki. It was an important generational moment for her, bringing together a remarkable group of international artists in the museum’s former home—a now-demolished modernist pavilion. The exhibition became a reflection on digital culture at a moment when the internet was fundamentally reshaping the production and circulation of images, identities, and desire.

The second exhibition is Paint, Also Known As Blood: Women, Painting and Desire (2019), which opened at the museum at the height of the pro-choice protests in Poland. Bringing together the work of fifty women painters, it was the first exhibition of its kind in Poland, and arguably one of the first in Europe to examine painting through the intertwined lenses of gender, embodiment, desire, and political agency.

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Hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Émilie Renard is the Director of Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research in Paris. At Bétonsalon, she directs an exhibition and research program situated within Université Paris Cité and concerned with the relationships among artistic production, pedagogy, institutional structures, social histories, and public life. Her recent curatorial work includes the 2026 exhibition hibou tv show, developed with Vincent Enjalbert and Elena Lespes Muñoz, as well as ongoing research and production programs supporting artists’ engagement with archives and alternative historical narratives. Renard previously directed La Galerie, the contemporary art center in Noisy-le-Sec, and has organized exhibitions, research projects, publications, and pedagogical programs independently and in collaboration with institutions in France and internationally. Her work often examines collective methods of production, vernacular knowledge, feminist pedagogy, language, care, and the conditions under which art and institutions are made.

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Hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Allison Glenn is a New York-based curator and writer and the Curator of the 2026 Toronto Biennial of Art. Her work focuses on the intersection of art and public space through biennials, public-art projects, site-responsive exhibitions, special initiatives, and major new commissions. For more than fifteen years, she has worked closely with artists to produce ambitious and experimental projects that reconsider how art operates within landscapes, cities, institutions, and public life. Glenn is also one of the curators of Centro América Red de Arte, opening in Guatemala City in November 2026. Her previous positions and projects include Artistic Director of The Shepherd in Detroit; Curator of Special Projects for Untitled Miami Beach 2025; co-curator of the 2023 Counterpublic Triennial; Senior Curator at the Public Art Fund; and Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. She has published essays in museum catalogues and periodicals including Artforum, ART PAPERS, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and ART21 Magazine.

Through a presentation of various projects, Allison Glenn’s talk, titled Site-Specificity and the Contemporary Environment, will look at the role of a curator working in public space, which often includes production, working alongside institutions, collaborating across disciplines, working with communities, and more.

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The Artists Roundtable is an international forum for leading practitioners, hosted by Tamsin Dillon of SVA’s MA Curatorial Practice faculty.

Tania Candiani is a Mexican interdisciplinary artist whose practice brings together visual art, sound, literature, music, architecture, science, and traditional forms of knowledge. Working across installation, performance, sculpture, sound, and multimedia, she explores translation between different systems of communication and investigates relationships between technology, nature, labor, history, and cultural memory. Her work often engages with ancestral knowledge, craft traditions, and collective forms of making. Candiani represented Mexico at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015 and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Smithsonian Institution research grant.

Candiani will talk about how she came to develop her intense focus on systems of communication in her practice, especially exploring sound, a central aspect of her work. In particular, she will explore her process and recent participation in multiple international projects, what human perception means for her, and how she works across collective, affective, and ritual experience.

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The Artists Roundtable is an international forum for leading practitioners, hosted by Tamsin Dillon of SVA’s MA Curatorial Practice faculty.

Candace Hill-Montgomery is an American multidisciplinary artist, writer, poet, photographer, and educator. Her work spans photography, collage, sculpture, installation, performance, painting, artist books, and weaving. She engages with race, feminism, environmentalism, poverty, political violence, and Black cultural history. Fiber and weaving have become particularly important to her practice, through which she combines materials such as linen, cotton, wool, cashmere, and horsehair with found objects and personal references. Hill-Montgomery has exhibited widely in New York and beyond and has received both a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

Hill will take us on a journey through the diverse aspects and trajectory of her practice, from early works created from found objects foraged from torn-down buildings and detritus discovered in unknown towns as she drove off the highway following an instinct. She painted over and cleaned up the pieces to create new built environments. Sometimes all that is left now are the photographs she also made. We’ll look together at how the practice has grown and changed, how vital being an educator has been, and the impact it has on her own work.

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The Artists Roundtable is an international forum for leading practitioners, hosted by Tamsin Dillon of SVA’s MA Curatorial Practice faculty.

Mariana Castillo Deball is a Mexican interdisciplinary artist whose practice examines the relationships between archaeology, anthropology, history, science, philosophy, and contemporary art. Working through sculpture, installation, performance, books, and research-based projects, she investigates how objects acquire meaning and how museums, archives, and institutions shape interpretations of the past. Her projects frequently involve extensive research into archaeological collections, historical archives, and systems of knowledge. Castillo Deball has received numerous international awards, including the Preis der Nationalgalerie, Zurich Art Prize, Ars Viva Award, and Prix de Rome, and has exhibited extensively internationally.

Deball will introduce us to the processes integral to the development of her works, whether for small works or the large-scale interventions she has become known for. She will talk about how she begins her research, how she finds new paths through histories, and what she picks up on as she finds a thread through. We’ll have a chance to hear her talk about recent and current projects, especially Feathered Changes, the new work created as part of the new David Geffen galleries at LACMA in Los Angeles.

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The Artists Roundtable is an international forum for leading practitioners, hosted by Tamsin Dillon of SVA’s MA Curatorial Practice faculty.

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

My life is not memories rather their narratives ive told myself about myself

Figuring it out is hard and I’m sorry

We have to be gentle with each other’s hearts

You may have more swords than me but mines will always carry more weight

People don't want what you give them they want what you've got

Power is displayed through the structure of the economic system and the use of force

The middle class was no longer a majority after 2015

So many of my assumptions have been blown up under the pressures of reality

Generally as you get close to the details the examples tend to fall apart

How do you know when your building a community? Its when they are talking without you

You cant control what happens you can influence it

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The Artists Roundtable is an international forum for leading practitioners, hosted by Tamsin Dillon of SVA’s MA Curatorial Practice faculty.

Jitish Kallat is an Indian contemporary artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores time, history, memory, science, cosmology, urban life, and human existence. Working across painting, photography, video, sculpture, installation, and drawing, Kallat frequently incorporates dates, numbers, measurements, archival documents, historical texts, and natural elements into his work. He is interested in connections between the personal and the historical, as well as between earthly experience and cosmic scales of time. Kallat has exhibited internationally at major institutions including Tate Modern, the Centre Pompidou, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and served as Artistic Director of the 2014 Kochi-Muziris Biennale.

Kallat will introduce us to the breadth and depth of his practice, which brings science, historical memory, existential inquiry, and nature together to consider our presence and place in the cosmos. He will talk about some recent projects, including his wall drawing for The Menil Collection in Houston, as well as his curatorial projects, especially with the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India.

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The Artists Roundtable is an international forum for leading practitioners, hosted by Tamsin Dillon of SVA’s MA Curatorial Practice faculty.

Marianna Simnett is a British-Croatian multidisciplinary artist. Her work spans film, video, sculpture, painting, installation, performance, and sound. She explores vulnerability, autonomy, control, pain, care, transformation, and the human body, often through surreal and psychologically charged narratives. Drawing on horror, fairy tales, mythology, medical imagery, and relationships between humans and other species, Simnett creates unsettling fictional worlds populated by altered bodies, animals, children, and hybrid characters. Her art has been presented internationally at institutions including Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Kunsthalle Zürich, MMK Frankfurt, and the New Museum in New York, and she participated in the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022.

Simnett will introduce the multidisciplinary and experimental approach to her practice and will talk about her major large-scale installations at the Venice Biennale, the Hamburger Bahnhof, and the New Museum. She’ll discuss some of the key themes that preoccupy her, such as the body, transformation, mythology, technology, fluidity, thresholds, borders, collapse, violence, and humor. She’ll also talk about her understanding of different styles of curation—whether they have an open approach or a more prescriptive one.

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The Artists Roundtable is an international forum for leading practitioners, hosted by Tamsin Dillon of SVA’s MA Curatorial Practice faculty.

Lamia Joreige is a Lebanese visual artist and filmmaker whose practice explores memory, history, time, archives, war, and the relationship between individual and collective experience. Working across film, photography, video, painting, writing, and installation, she frequently examines the Lebanese Civil War and its continuing impact on Beirut and its inhabitants. Her work combines archival research, personal testimony, fiction, and contemporary observation to question how histories are recorded, remembered, and reconstructed. Joreige has exhibited at institutions including the Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, New Museum, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and was a Radcliffe Institute Fellow at Harvard University and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination at Columbia University. She is a co-founder and board member of Beirut Art Center, which she co-directed from 2009 to 2014.

Joriege will talk about her life in Beirut, where her practice explores the relationship between historical fact and fiction, communication through collective memory, and representation. We will hear about her contribution as the co-founder, director, and now board member of the Beirut Art Center, as well as what stands out for her as the most important aspects of her participation in many exhibitions and festivals internationally.

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