School's Out! #46 with Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
School's Out! #46 with curator Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy. A lecture, drinks, bites and a short movie. Friday 29 November 2024, 19:00 - 22:00. Doors open at 18:00.
School’s Out! #46 - Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
For this School’s Out! on Friday 29 November, we invited curator Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy.
Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy was the director of Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam from 2018 to 2023, playing a leading role in changing the name of the institution formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art. Sofía will talk about the meaning and representation of names and texts in the city. She will discuss examples from Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hoorn, Eindhoven and others, questioning why these texts are inscribed in the first place? Why are some city texts being debated? And what do these forms of writing and proposals for rewriting suggest?
Next to her work at Kunstinstituut Melly, in 2023 Sofia was a Mellon Visiting Lecturer in the Art History Department at CUNY Graduate Center in New York. Sofía regularly participates in jury panels and advisory committees. Among these are the 2023 Frieze Tate Acquisition Fund in London, the 2018 Hugo Boss Prize at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award in 2017, and the 55th Venice Biennial in 2013. Since 2022, she is a board member of International Manifesta Foundation.
Previously, Sofía was the curator of contemporary art at Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, a foundation with offices in New York and Caracas. She has also been director at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City; held curatorial positions in New York at Art in General and Americas Society; and worked as the artistic director and chief curator of the 9a Bienal do Mercosul (2013) in Porto Alegre. Additionally, Sofía has guest-curated exhibitions at several spaces and museums internationally, including CCA in Vilnius, Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, and MALBA in Buenos Aires.
Sofía was born and raised in Baja California, Mexico.
Next to this talk, you can expect drinks, tunes and a short movie handpicked by former curator of AFFR Jord den Hollander.
Programme
18:00 Doors open, drinks bites and tunes
19:00 - 20:15 Presentation by Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy + Q&A
20:15 - 20:30 Short film by AFFR
20:30 - 22:00 Drinks, bites and tunes