In Conversation with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Name: In Conversation with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Start: 2026-06-02T18:00:00+1000
End: 2026-06-02T19:00:00+1000
Location: Potter Museum of Art

Tue, 2 Jun, 6pm - 7pm AEST

Potter Museum of Art

Parkville VIC, Australia

Potter Museum of Art

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Join us for a special in-conversation event with one of the most influential figures in the international contemporary art world, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, as she shares insights into her deeply influential work and its positioning of curatorial practice as a form of care and as a vital tool for thinking, listening, and responding to our shared historical moment.

Christov-Bakargiev will be joined by Professor Anne Dunlop and Associate Professor Anthony White from the University of Melbourne.

This Australian tour is made possible through a partnership between The University of Queensland Art Museum, The University of Melbourne with support from the Potter Museum of Art, Art + Australia and the Dr Harold Schenberg Bequest, the Australian Institute of Art History and the Macgeorge Bequest, Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney and Milani Gallery.

Presenters

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Carolyn Christov-Barkargiev is an Italian-American curator and writer. She served as Director of the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in 2009 and from 2016 to 2023, having previously been its Chief Curator. Earlier, she was Senior Curator at MoMA PS1 in New York.  She was the Artistic Director of dOCUMENTA (13), realized across Kassel, Kabul, Alexandria/Cairo, and Banff, and has curated major international exhibitions including the 16th Biennale of Sydney (2008) and the 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015). In 2012, she was named the most influential figure in the global art world by ArtReview.  More recently, she curated Arte Povera (2024–25) at the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection in Paris, examining the movement’s origins and global legacy. She has taught at the University of Leeds and Northwestern University, and is currently Honorary Guest Professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland.

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Since its founding in 1972, the Potter Museum of Art has been located across a number of sites on the University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus. The current Swanston Street building was designed by Katsalidis Architects and first opened to the public in 1998. After a period of closure between 2018–2024, the Potter reopens in 2025 with an extension designed by Wood Marsh Architects featuring state of the art teaching and learning studios and upgraded social, events and associated amenities—all of which are accessible through a new, distinctive arched entry on campus.

The Potter has supported generations of artists, curators, writers and academics for over fifty years, making a significant contribution to the cultural and social life of the University and its wider community. Looking forward, the Potter’s exhibitions and public programs, fellowships and residencies, research and publishing activities will be thematically focused and interdisciplinary in approach, continuing to centre the voices of artists and art on the key issues and debates of our time.

The Potter is one of the homes of the University of Melbourne Art Collection, with work spanning antiquity to contemporary practice. While the principal focus of the Collection is Australian art, a range of international works include gifts from distinguished alumni and teaching collections that demonstrate the strong connections between the University’s cultural collections and its academic programs. Notable for its breadth, the Collection – now numbering some 18,000 works – is uniquely connected to the University’s history while also responding to our evolving cultural landscape.

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