Tuesday 17 April 2012
7pm

In 2010-11 Lisa Le Feuvre co-curated with Tom Morton the seventh edition of the British Art Show. Every five years, the British Art Show presents a particular take on aspects of contemporary art from the UK. Focusing on work made since 2005, British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet brought together thirty-nine artists and artists’ groups, turning way from the ‘survey’ model in favour of a ‘curatorial’ model. The exhibition explored the ways in which recent British art conjures myriad histories – both real and imagined – to illuminate our present moment, the constantly shifting point between past and future.

In her talk “British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet. Reflecting on periodic large-scale exhibitions”, Le Feuvre will describe this curatorial approach, discussing the concerns and objectives with the exhibition. She will also address a key question: how do such large-scale ‘independent’ exhibitions relate to a building based curatorial programme?

Lisa Le Feuvre is Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute since November 2010. She was co-curator, with Tom Morton, of British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet. Between 2005 and 2009 she directed the contemporary art programme at the National Maritime Museum, with other curatorial projects staged in spaces across the UK, including the CCA (Glasgow), The Photographers’ Gallery (London), MOT, (London), Stills (Edinburgh) and Arts Council England (London), working with artists including Stephen Sutcliffe, Gordon Matta-Clark, Dennis Oppenheim, Alexander & Susan Maris and Joachim Koester. Le Feuvre regularly contributes to journals, publications and exhibition catalogues, including the 2010 edited publication Failure published by Whitechapel Art Gallery/MIT Press. Between 2004 and 2010 she taught on the postgraduate Curatorial Programme in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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