As part of the ‘Detours’ series, The Common Guild presents Adam Szymczyk, Director of Kunsthalle Basel.

Since 2003, Adam Szymczyk has been the Director of Kunsthalle Basel, where he has organized exhibitions including Rosalind Nashashibi: Over In, 2004; Carl Andre: Black Holes, 2005; Tomma Abts, 2005; Lee Lozano: Win First Don’t Last Win Last Don’t Care, 2006; Goshka Macuga: I Am Become Death, 2009 and, most recently Lucy Skaer A Boat Used as A Vessel. In 1997 he was involved in setting up the Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw and continued to work there until 2002. In 2008 he co-curated with Elena Filipovic the 5th berlin biennial for contemporary art under the title ‘When Things Cast No Shadow’.

The Trades Hall of Glasgow was designed by Robert Adam in 1791 — 94. The medieval cathedral aside, it is the building is the oldest in Glasgow still in regular use for its original purpose.

This event is a collaboration with The Glasgow School of Art.

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‘Detours’ is a series of talks introducing views from elsewhere by leaders in the visual arts. Speakers discuss the relationship between practice and context: how institutions and professional practice develop in response to specific situations, both geographic and cultural.

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As Part of our ‘Detours’ series, The Common Guild invites Polly Staple, Director of London’s Chisenhale Gallery since 2008.

Polly Staple was formerly Editor at Large of frieze magazine, Director of Frieze Projects, Curator at Cubitt Gallery and co-Editor of Untitled magazine. Over the past ten years Staple has produced projects and exhibitions with a range of artists including Pawel Althamer, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer, Martha Rosler, Lawrence Weiner and Cathy Wilkes, among others. She has contributed to a range of publications and catalogues including frieze, Art Monthly and Afterall writing criticism and essays on artists, including most recently – ‘Film as Critical Practice’, ‘Feminism’, Seth Price, Clemens von Wedeymer, Michael Beutler, Micol Assaël, Johanna Billing, Hilary Lloyd and Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan. May 2009 sees the launch of her new programme for Chisenhale.

This event is a collaboration with Glasgow School of Art.

This event takes place in the unique Trades Hall of Glasgow, designed by Robert Adam in 1791-94 and now – the medieval cathedral aside – the oldest building in Glasgow still in regular use for its original purpose.

Event Details

‘Detours’ is a series of talks introducing views from elsewhere by leaders in the visual arts. Speakers discuss the relationship between practice and context: how institutions and professional practice develop in response to specific situations, both geographic and cultural.

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For this ‘Detours’ Event, The Common Guild presents a talk by Juliana Engberg, Artistic Director of ACCA, Melbourne.

Juliana has commissioned and curated numerous exhibitions, including: Pipilotti Rist: ‘I Packed the Postcard in My Suitcase’; Yael Bartana: ‘TRILOGY’; Nathan Coley ‘Appearances; Mortality’; Joseph Kosuth ‘Texts for Nothing’, Samuel Beckett in Play; Plenty Ought To Be Enough: Barbara Kruger and Richard Billingham: People Places Animals. In 1999 she was the Artistic Director of the internationally acclaimed Melbourne International Biennial 1999 Signs of Life,

This talk takes place at The Trades Hall of Glasgow, designed by Robert Adam in 1791-94 and now – the medieval cathedral aside – the oldest building in Glasgow still in regular use for its original purpose.

This event is a collaboration with Glasgow School of Art and presented in association with VAGA (Visual Arts and Galleries Association).

Event Details

‘Detours’ is a series of talks introducing views from elsewhere by leaders in the visual arts. Speakers discuss the relationship between practice and context: how institutions and professional practice develop in response to specific situations, both geographic and cultural.

Listen -