PUBLICS expands ‘The Centre For Curatorial Thinking’ activities with a new annual international symposium focusing on contemporary art’s relationship to Curatorial Thinking and Publicness in, across, and in relation to Finland, the Nordic-Baltic region, and beyond.

‘Positioning’ is a globally networked enquiry into current and future curatorial thinking in the Nordic-Baltic region during a time of urgencies, and of radical uncertainty for culture and human rights. We come together to consider how we can think and work together, how to position ourselves with others, and how to bridge the local-regional-global curatorial nexus within and beyond the region. A rethinking of these relations is necessary to expand our comprehension of this factious ‘present’, with ever-increasing inequalities, political fragilities, increased discrimination, structural violence, conflict, and civic uncertainty. Positioning provides a critical space for much-needed dialogue between diverse local and regional actors, agencies, and international contemporary art scenes and curatorial thinkers.

Positioning is organised and co-hosted by PUBLICS with Amos Rex and Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma.

Register for the symposium.