Friday, July 30, 2010
Curators
Natasha Conland (New Zealand) and Susanne Jaschko (Germany)
Susanne and Natasha worked together in Christchurch on a curatorial residency to develop an impressive programme for SCAPE 2006 which reflects Art & Industry’s philosophical goal of pairing art with industry – acknowledging and articulating this unique relationship while delivering a distinctive national/international outcome.
Natasha Conland joins Art & Industry as one of New Zealand’s most promising curators. Her recent accomplishments include New Zealand’s representation at the 2005 Venice Biennale, a highly successful exhibition which gained excellent international recognition for New Zealand contemporary visual art. Formerly Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, she is now Curator Contemporary Art, Auckland Art Gallery. Natasha’s stand-out shows at Te Papa include a retrospective of artist Judy Darragh, Judy Darragh: So… you made it? and a number of site-specific sculpture commissions for the outdoor Sculpture Terrace, which she worked to instigate. 
Susanne Jaschko is an independent German curator based in Berlin with a doctorate in Art History. From 2001-04 she was the Deputy Director and Curator for Transmediale, an annual international media art festival held in Berlin and recognised as one of the most important festivals for media art and culture in Europe. She is currently curating Open House - Architecture and Technology for Intelligent Living , a traveling exhibition by the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany and Art Center, Pasadena/California. Susanne also lectures in art theory and art history with a focus on electronic arts. Upcoming projects include Urban Interface: Berlin an exhibition dealing with the transitory spaces between public and private space and between data space and physical realm.