Keynote Lecture: Julia Moritz

2015

Keynote Lecture: Julia Moritz

20 August 2015 - 20 August 2015

Keynote speaker Julia Moritz, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki auditorium (2015).

Julia Moritz is an art historian and curator. She headed the Maybe Education and Public Programs at dOCUMENTA(13),Kassel (2012)and is currently the Curator of Theory and Education at Kunsthalle Zurich. She was formerly curator at the University of Lüneburg, where she was responsible for the programme of the university's art space, Kunstraum, and taught cultural studies seminars. During postgraduate studies in Vienna, New York and Bilbao she wrote a doctoral thesis on issues relating to institutional conditions in contemporary art. Independent projects include Critical Complicity (with Lisa Mazza) in Vienna, Ljubljana and Bolzano (2010). She previously worked for Manifesta 7 in Trentino/Alto Adige (2008) and the German Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennial (2007). The volume Question of the Day (2007, co-edited with Nicolaus Schafhausen and published by Sternberg Press) gives insight into Moritz' ongoing dialogical inquiry into the formats of art's production and reception.

Julia Moritz's visit is made possible with the support of Goethe-Institut and The Physics Room Residency Programme.