In the organizer's words:

Last summer, Spike invited curator, critic, and longtime friend of Spike Daniel Baumann to take the temperature of contemporary-art curating - and apparently struck a nerve. His text, written as he stepped down from directing the Kunsthalle Zürich and published in Spike #80 - The State of the Arts, brought into public light a very off-the-record sentiment: namely, that so many knowledgeable, ambitious, and above all art-loving curatorial colleagues envied his decision to quit.

Picking up the heated debate his contribution kicked off, Daniel Baumann, curator Övul Ö. Durmuşoğlu, Luca Lo Pinto, former artistic director of MACRO, Rome, and critic Pablo Larios will try to disentangle what went wrong with a vocation that, not so long ago, was the darling of global art.

What Happened to the Curator? is the second in a series of four yearly Spike roundtables on the critical conjunctures in contemporary art, proudly hosted by the Julia Stoschek Foundation.

Price information:

10€, cash only. Proceeds from the door and the bar exclusively support the Spike Roundtable.