The lecture is part of the accompanying program to the long-term exhibition Model: Museum of Contemporary Art. The event will be hosted by Lucia Gregorová Stach, curator at the SNG. The lecture and discussion will be in English.
Dr. Lora Sariaslan is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Utrecht University and specializes in transnational art practices, artistic mobility, cultural and identity politics. She studied art history at Knox College and the University of Texas at Austin and received her PhD from the University of Amsterdam. She focuses on the intersection of the critical practices that transform creating, collecting, and presenting. She has worked in diverse institutions globally ranging from the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas to being the curator at Istanbul Modern. The scope of her activities embraces both the artistic and academic fields. As an independent curator she has curated exhibitions internationally, among others: Life in the UK/ Balance of Probabilities as part of the 2nd Asia Triennial Manchester in the UK (2011), the 2nd Mardin Biennial: Double Take, Turkey (2012), This yearning is ours! at the Center of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Torun, Poland (2016), More and more thoughts about Other Thoughts: Driton Selmani, U10, Belgrade, Serbia, What We Forget at Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam (2019), and Uncharted at Kunsthall 3,14 in Bergen, Norway (2023). She has been on juries, among others the Oskár Čepan Award. A member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), she is also the European Museum Forum (EMF) National Correspondent for Turkey.
