Curator’s Perspective: Andrea Lissoni "The Sounds of Images Breathing"

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Beginning with the experience of Bill Viola’s work, the lecture traces the evolution of the moving image in contemporary art through some fundamental practices that have emerged over the past decade. Drawing on works by artists including Joan Jonas, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Saodat Ismailova, Philippe Parreno, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Tony Cokes, WangShui, Meriem Bennani and Lucy Raven, it examines how artists have redefined the relationship between image, space, time and the body, reshaping the experience of the exhibition.

Andrea Lissoni, PhD, is since 2020 the Artistic Director of Haus der Kunst München.

His curatorial programme is based on transdisciplinary and transgenerational approaches in which all strands of artistic practices are deeply connected and started in April 2022 with the sound and music residency series TUNE. Moving images have been always at the center of his research, at Haus der Kunst he programmed exhibitions  by Fujiko Nakaya, Dumb Type, Carsten Nicolai, Tony Cokes, Karrabing Film Collective, WangShui, Meredith Monk, Pan Daijing, Rebecca Horn, Pussy Riot, Philippe Parreno and Steina.

Formerly he was Senior Curator, International Art (Film) at Tate Modern, London (2013-2020), and previously curator at HangarBicocca, Milan (2009-2014) where among others he curated exhibitions by Gianikian-Ricci Lucchi, Ragnar Kjartansson, Mike Kelley, Joan Jonas, Philippe Parreno. At Tate Modern, he curated the Film Program inviting over 100 artists involved either in screenings, or in performances and curated Philippe Parreno’s Turbine Hall Commission in 2016, as well as survey exhibitions of Joan Jonas and Bruce Nauman, the BMW Tate Live Exhibitions 2017 and 2018. In 2019, he co-curated the Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement The Sound of Screens imploding, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève and OGR, Turin, and worked on the international opening of CCA Tashkent, the first public contemporary art centre in Uzbekistan, where he curated the solo exhibition Qo'rg'on Chiroq by artist Saodat Ismailova.