Department: Tate Modern Curatorial
Host: Clara Kim, The Daskalopoulos Senior Curator, International Art
Giulia was particularly interested in exploring the articulations – and at time the disconnections or failures of translation – between academic research and curating, between the university and the museum.
In consultation with colleagues across the Tate Modern Curatorial Team, Giulia devised and circulated a questionnaire to gather information concerning each regional area represented in the collection.
Together with her host, Clara Kim, and Christopher Griffin, Senior Curator, Research Programme and Publishing, Giulia organised two exploratory curatorial workshops with guest speakers the art historian, curator and critic Michael Asbury and the curator and art critic Okwui Enwezor, which focused on Tate’s transnational collection strategies and practices.
A third workshop, titled Beyond the Global Dream: Exploring Transnational Ways of Working Together, took place at Delfina Foundation, London. The workshop was attended by a number of curators and researchers – both from within Tate and external to the organisation – with a special interest in transnational approaches to art histories and curatorial practices.
Directly following her Fellowship, Giulia wrote an article for Wrong Wrong magazine, also entitled Beyond the Global Dream, in which she explores some of the challenges that emerge from the process of collecting and exhibiting artworks from a variety of cultural and geopolitical contexts.
Lia Chaia, Para GB 2015. (Photo courtesy Fernanda Tanaka.)
Biography
Giulia Lamoni PhD is a researcher, teacher and independent curator. She is a member of the Institute of Art History at Universidade Nova, Lisbon. Her research focuses on the relations between contemporary art and feminisms, contemporary artistic production and migratory processes, the histories of contemporary art in Latin America, and of the relations between artistic practices and experimental art education.
Current curatorial projects include El Poder con que Saltamos Juntas. Women Artists in Spain and Portugal Between the Dictatorship and Democracy at IVAM in Valencia (2024) and at the Modern Art Center of the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon (2025).
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