Curator’s Exhibition Tour

Join curator Viviana Checchia for a special tour of our first exhibition of 2016 Suspended Accounts. This group exhibition presents diverse work – spanning film, performance and painting – by emerging Palestinian artists, all winners and finalists of the 2014 A. M. Qattan Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year Award (YAYA14). She will discuss the works in the exhibition, and the curatorial process of the award, working with the shortlisted artists, and the exhibition in Ramallah in 2014.

Viviana Checchia is a curator and critic and the Co-Founder and Chief Curator of Vessel in Bari, Italy, a non-profit arts organisation devoted to developing critical discourse around contemporary social, political and economic issues. She is also Public Engagement Curator at The Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow’s hub for creative activity.

Projects as an independent curator include ‘In Dialogue’, co-curated with Heather Connelly and Rhiannon Slade at Nottingham Contemporary, UK (2012); and ‘There’s something to this (but I don’t know what it is)’, a solo show by Helen Brown at Nitra Gallery, Slovakia (2010). As Assistant Curator at Eastside Projects (UK), she researched and assisted in curating ‘Abstract Cabinet Show’ (2009) and ‘Liam Gillick: Two Short Plays’ (2009-10); as well as editing Declan Clarke and Paul McDevitt’s Fuck Book (2009), and presenting ‘National Network: A View – Limited Edition Prints and Print Portfolios’ at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. She was a member of the curatorial team for ‘Agora’, the 4th Athens Biennale in 2013.

Viviana has lectured at the Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and the International Academy of Art Palestine, and was an instructor for the V-A-C Foundation’s Summer Curatorial School in Moscow (2013/2014). With Anna Santomauro, the two curators are co-recipients of the 2013 ICI/ DEDALUS Research Award for research carried out in the United States. Viviana is currently a PhD candidate at Loughborough University in the UK.