Deparetment: Learning, Tate Exchange
Host: Cara Courage, Head of Tate Exchange
Tate Exchange was the first of its kind in an art museum anywhere in the world, an open experiment that grew and changed over the course of five years. The spirit of collaboration, community partnership and experimentation that defined the project has since been embedded into the wider activity of Tate’s Learning and Curatorial programmes.
In 2019 a Tate Exchange priority was to develop international partnerships and explore models to create an international programme. Daniela consulted widely across Tate on the development of an international strategy. During the course of these conversations, she helped to advocate for Tate Exchange across the organisation.
Daniela and her Host, Head of Tate Exchange Cara Courage, worked closely to agree the format of a report with the outcomes of Daniela’s research. Daniela suggested this should become an advocacy document about Tate Exchange with a wider circulation than initially planned. Written by Daniela, Connecting Through Collaboration: An International Framework for Tate Exchange, outlined why Tate Exchange wished to further explore international connections, programmes and dialogue, and ways in which this might happen.
Daniela and Cara subsequently presented Connecting Through Collaboration to multiple audiences. A highly valuable asset, the report continued to be utilised by the Tate Exchange team both in internal conversations and those held more widely outside of the institution.
El árbol que no plantamos aún, 2024. Participatory art programme curated in collaboration with the artist Estefanía Santiago, Centro de residencias artísticas Matadero, Madrid. (Photo: Santiago Gershianik.)
Further collaboration with Tate
2019
Common Exchange: Tate Exchange and MCA Chicago Commons
In July 2019 Brooks Programme funding allowed Daniela to attend Common Exchange at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, the first meeting of an international network of museums concerned with the advancement of civic engagement and socially-engaged art practice within their institutions.
The idea for the symposium was conceived by 2018 Brooks Fellow Kenji Praepipatmongkol, who, at the time, was the Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow at MCA Chicago, and subsequently developed in collaboration between Kenji, MCA Chicago and the Tate Exchange project.
The symposium’s subject matter was directly related to Daniela’s research into investigating potential models by which Tate Exchange could increase international collaboration. Daniela and her Host, Head of Tate Exchange Cara Courage, travelled to Chicago for the two-day symposium to share knowledge about programmes, operations, and projects.
Brooks Programme funding of this event therefore supported the ongoing career progression of two Brooks Fellows, as well as the development of Tate Exchange's international partnerships.
Biography
Daniela Ruiz Moreno (b.1991) is an independent curator with a focus in participatory programmes and art education. Based between Madrid and Santander, she coordinates TEJA, a network of cultural spaces in support of situations of emergency, and PRAXIS, an educational apparatus and structure for independent studies by the non–profit arts organisation fluent.
In Spain she has curated Cuidadorxs Invisibles and El árbol que no plantamos aún as well as the online residency programme Together Apart of Fundación ‘ace para el Arte Contemporáneo. Daniela also co-curated Suspension of Disbelief (2023) at TANK Shanghai and Embodied Interface sponsored by the Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation.
Residencies: Delfina Foundation, Mahler & LeWitt Studios, demolición/construcción, Shanghai Curators Lab.