IKT statements:
Katalin Néray 1941-2007
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
It is with a great sense of loss that the IKT members learned about the passing away of Katalin Néray, Director of the Ludwig Museum in Budapest and a long-time member of our association, on September 5, 2007 after a serious illness.
Born in 1941, Katalin became Director of the Ludwig Museum in 1992, after having run the Budapest’s Exhibition Hall (Kunsthalle) since 1984. Beside of the exhibitions she organized and curated at the Museum, she curated several times the Hungarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the Hungarian and Eastern European Pavilion of the Sao Paulo Biennial. She was also the chief curator for Manifesta 1 in 1996.
Her friendly and jovial presence at the IKT Congresses, together with her highly professional qualities, were an enchantment that we will deeply miss in the future.
The IKT board
Présumés Innocents / IKT Protestation note
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
We, international directors, curators from museums and exhibition spaces, independent curators, art historians, art critics and artists, gathered together for the 2007 Vaduz IKT (International Association of Curators) Conference, wish to signal our alarm about the judicial procedures to which Henry-Claude Cousseau, Director of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Marie-Laure Bernadac and Stephanie Moisdon, independent curators, both based in Paris, were currently subject. They are facing charges relating to the exhibition “Presumed Innocent; Contemporary Art and Childhood” at the CAPC, Bordeaux, in the Year 2000. The charge is about exhibiting works unacceptable for a young public, and officially with “making publicly available, including children, a violent pornographic message an affront to dignity, including the image of a child of a pornographic character”.
A public note relating to the show’s content was of course prominently displayed.
We wish to express our dismay about this attack on artistic and curatorial freedom of expression. We reject the line of argumentation, and we offer our unconditional support for Henry-Claude Cousseau, Marie-Laure Bernadac and Stephanie Moisdon in the present circumstances.
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