Thursday 25 February 2010
7pm

Dorothea Jendricke (b. 1975) is a curator based in Berlin, Germany. She will take on the position of the director at Neuer Aachener Kunstverein – NAK in April 2010, as well as she is co-curating a performance event for June 2010 at the Witte de With, Rotterdam, in the context of Morality (together with Renske Jansen). In 2008-2009 she was assistant curator at the Portikus in Frankfurt and prior to this she worked for Berlin based gallery Esther Schipper and collaboratively organized Center, a project space with a program focused on performativity. She also (co)initiated and organized further projects in Berlin such as the interdisciplinary Schinkel Progressive Residency, the studio house Zentralbuero, and other. Dorothea Jendricke is a contributor to among others Flash Art and Artforum.

She currently resides in Malmö invited by Residency Far Away So Close and is curating the project Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line presenting works by John Baldessari (USA), Simon Denny (NZ), Mario Garcia Torres (MEX), Thomas Kratz (D), Falke Pisano (NL), Ryan Siegan-Smith (UK), opening at Malmö Konsthall on March 3, 2010; on view through April 11.

The talk will be held in English.