Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture

Facing Art—On Managing Arts Institutions

Date：2024, June 2^nd, Sunday at 14:00-16:30

Venue：Yuan Hall, Taishin Tower (2F, NO.118, Sec. 4, Ren-Ai Rd, Taipei City) 

Part I

Speaker：Matthias Mohr (Artistic Direction and Executive Director, Radialsystem, Berlin, Germany)

Moderator：KENG Yi-Wei (Curator, Dramaturg of National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts Weiwuying)

Part 2

Speaker：Rhana Devenport ONZM (Director of Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide)

Moderator：LEE Yulin (Board of the Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture, Former Director of Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts)

Matthias Mohr, who has years of experience as a dramaturge and curator, is the director of Radialsystem, an art center converted from a water pumping station by the river Spree. Since he assumed the post of director in 2018, Mohr has concentrated on developing interdisciplinary projects of dance, visual arts, and music informed by experimentality and contemporaneity while facilitating dialogues and collaborations with artists from different backgrounds, forms of body training, and modes of thinking to seek new narratives in artistic creation. 

Rhana Devenport is an Australia-based curator, writer, and cultural producer whose career has spanned art museums, festivals, biennials, and cultural organizations for over thirty years. In her talk, Devenport will share her experience of managing the art institution she currently works at, along with the principles that guide it. She will also discuss her experience of collaborating with artists from different countries and disciplines. 

※Simultaneous English interpretation is provided 

(Personal ID required for renting interpretation equipment.)

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About the Speakers

Matthias Mohr

Artistic Direction and Executive Director, Radialsystem, Berlin, Germany

Matthias Mohr is a German-Colombian curator and dramaturge. He has been artistic director of Radialsystem in Berlin since 2018 as well as managing director since 2024. His curatorial work focuses on questioning dominant narratives within representative forms of culture. As a dramaturge and artistic collaborator, he has a long-standing collaboration with the composer and music theatre maker Heiner Goebbels. From 2012-2014, he was part of the Ruhrtriennale programme team and subsequently worked as a dramaturge for PACT Zollverein with a focus on dance and performance. There he cooperatively developed experimental transdisciplinary formats that centred on the exchange between different fields of knowledge and artistic practices. He has also staged contemporary music theatre performances at the ZKM Karlsruhe, the ECLAT festival in Stuttgart and the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen in Hanover, among others.

Rhana Devenport ONZM

Director of Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide

Photo by Saul Steed

Rhana Devenport ONZM is Director of Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide. She was previously Director of the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre in Aotearoa New Zealand. She has held positions with the Biennale of Sydney and Sydney Festival, and was Senior Project Officer with the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) at Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia from 1994 to 2004. Rhana was a Curatorial Advisor for the Aichi Triennale 2022: Still Alive and has curated many exhibitions with a focus on Asia, the Pacific, and time-based art including Robert Wilson: Moving Portraits and Nalini Malani: Gamepieces in 2023. In 2021 she edited a major monograph on Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak. Internationally Rhana contributes to advisory and selection committees including the Mori Art Museum International Advisory Committee. In 2017 Rhana was the Curator for New Zealand’s Pavilion at the Biennale Arte in Venice with ‘Lisa Reihana: Emissaries'. In 2018 she received The New Zealand of Merit by Her Majesty the Queenfor contribution to arts governance.

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