Moderator

Ilaria Conti, Curator, American Federation of the Arts

Ilaria Conti’s curatorial work focuses on research-based artistic practices engaging with decolonial epistemologies and the relationship between institutional infrastructures, communal care, and civic agency.

Currently, Ilaria serves as Curator at the American Federation of Arts, advancing frameworks of decentralized and sustainable exhibition-making with a focus on contemporary art and social/cultural justice. Previously, she served as Research Curator at the Centre Pompidou, Assistant Curator of the 2016 Marrakech Biennale, and Samuel H. Kress Interpretive Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other positions. She is an Advisor in the Visual Arts for the American Academy in Rome.

Ilaria is an Awarded Mentee of the 2021-2022 Association of Art Museum Curators Foundation's Mentorship Program. She holds a BA and MA in Art History and Curatorial Studies from the University of Rome La Sapienza and an MA in Visual Arts Management from New York University. Her curatorial work has been featured in exhibitions and programs presented at the Centre Pompidou, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Swiss Institute/Istituto Svizzero, Fondation H, and La Nueva Fábrica Guatemala, among other institutions.

Speaker

Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Sámi Indigenous Scholar, Duojár and Curator

Dr. Liisa-Rávná Finbog is a Sámi Indigenous scholar, duojár and curator from Oslo, Vaapste, and Skánit in the Norwegian part of Sápmi.  She is currently based in Tampere, on the Finnish side of Sápmi, where she is doing post-doc research in connection with ‘Mediated Arctic Geographies’, a project that aims to look at how Arctic geospheres are aesthetically shaped and mediated to become vehicles of environmental, [geo]political and social concerns at Tampere University. Her specific focus is on the relation between Indigenous aesthetics in the Arctic and land.

Her written works include contributions to collective works such as ‘Research Journeys In/To Multiple Ways of Knowing (2019), articles in Nordic Museology (2015) and in the digital platform “Action Stories” (2021), essays in multiple exhibition catalogues (2022, 2023) as well as several upcoming works, including her first book, “It Speaks to You – Making kin through people, stories, and duodji in Sámi Museums” (2023).

Speaker

Pablo José Ramírez, Curator and Cultural Theorist

Pablo José Ramírez is a curator and an author based in Berlin. He was the inaugural Adjunct Curator of First Nations and Indigenous Art at Tate Modern (2019-2023). His work explores non-western ontologies, brown and indigenous histories, and the aesthetic possibilities of non-colonial materialities. He has an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2019, he received the International / CPPC Independent Curators Award for Central America and the Caribbean and is currently editor-in-chief and co-founder of Infrasónica, a curatorial platform dedicated to the investigation of sonic cultures. Ramírez was part of the curatorial team of the 58th Carnegie International and is currently co-curator with Diana Nawi of the Hammer Museum Biennial, Made in L.A. 2023.