We wanted to let you know The Nasher Sculpture Center Announces: Biennials from Venice to Santa Fe, Co-Presented with Site Sante Fe .Cecilia Alemani discusses curation and its balance of logistics, conceptual ambitions, and community relevancy in a conversation with Jed Morse
What: A public conversation with curators Cecilia Alemani and Jed Morse
When: Saturday, April 12 at 1:30 p.m.
Where: The Nasher Sculpture Center, 2001 Flora Street, Dallas TX 75201
Details: International biennial exhibitions pose enormous challenges for curators–vast scales, time pressures, budgets, logistics–who also are expected to conceive cogent presentations that respond sensitively and meaningfully to the concerns of the day—artistic, political, social, ecological, etc.—in the localities where they take place as well as to a broader international audience.
Join Cecilia Alemani, Director and Chief Curator of High Line Art in New York, artistic director of the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), and curator of the 12th SITE SANTA FE International (opening Summer 2025), and Nasher Interim Director and Chief Curator Jed Morse for a lively conversation about the opportunities and challenges of curating large, international, biennial presentations.
The conversation is presented in partnership with Site Sante Fe, who on June 27, 2025 will open the 12th edition of Site Sante International, curated by Cecilia Alemani. Titled Once Upon a Place, the internation will bring together over 90 participants and, for the first time, expand its footprint outside Site Sante Fe, exhibiting at over a dozen locations throughout the city. More information can be found here.
About Cecilia Alemani
Cecilia Alemani is an Italian curator based in New York City. Since 2011, she has been the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art, the public art program presented by the High Line in New York City. From 2020 to 2022, she served as artistic director of the 59th Venice Biennale, where she curated the acclaimed exhibition The Milk of Dreams, which was visited by over 800,000 visitors. In September 2023, she curated the exhibition Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self, the first American retrospective of Japanese painter Tetsuya Ishida (1973– 2005), at Gagosian Gallery in New York.
In November 2023, Alemani organized Making Their Mark, the first public presentation in New York of the Shah Garg Collection, a major exhibition showcasing the works of more than 80 of the most significant women artists from the last eight decades.
In January 2024, she served as the curator of Anu Põder: Space for My Body, the first solo exhibition presented outside Estonia of works by Anu Põder at Muzeum Susch. She also served as artistic director of the inaugural edition of Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires in 2018 and was the curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. Over the past twenty years, Alemani has developed an expertise in commissioning and producing ambitious artworks for the public space and unusual sites.
About Site Sante Fe
SITE SANTA FE is a dynamic, interdisciplinary contemporary arts institution placing artists at the center and exploring extraordinary ideas through innovative exhibitions and programs. As a non-collecting contemporary arts institution, SITE SANTA FE remains flexible in order to respond to conversations of the moment.
About the Nasher Sculpture Center:
Located in the heart of the Dallas Arts District, the Nasher Sculpture Center is home to the Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection, one of the finest collections of modern and contemporary sculpture in the world, featuring more than 500 masterpieces by Brancusi, Calder, de Kooning, di Suvero, Giacometti, Basquiat, Hepworth, LeWitt, Matisse, Miró, Moore, Picasso, Rodin, Serra, and Shapiro, among others. The Nasher Sculpture Center is open Wednesday through Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm. Admission is $10 for adults, $7 for seniors, $5 for students, and free for children 12 and under and members, and includes access to special exhibitions. For more information,
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Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
