EXPO CHICAGO/2017

EXPO CHICAGO, the International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art, has established the city of Chicago as a preeminent art fair destination. Initiating the beginning of the international fall art season each September, EXPO CHICAGO takes place at historic Navy Pier, whose vast vaulted architecture hosts leading international exhibitors presented alongside one of the highest quality platforms for global contemporary art and culture. Dedicated to rigorous and challenging programming, EXPO CHICAGO initiates strategic international partnerships, built alongside strong institutional relationships with major local museums and organizations to open parallel exhibitions and events. The 2017 edition of EXPO CHICAGO (September 13–17) will align with the Chicago Architecture Biennial (September 16–December 31), and inaugurate a global partnership with the Palais de Tokyo in Paris to bring the first official satellite exhibition of their Hors les Murs program in the United States to Chicago.

EXPO ART WEEK
September 10–17, 2017

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EXPO CHICAGO 2017 ANNOUNCES CURATORS

EXPO CHICAGO, The International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art, is pleased to announce the selected curators for the IN/SITU and EXPO VIDEO programs, in addition to the inaugural curator for the EXPOSURE section. Showcasing large-scale installations and site-specific works throughout Navy Pier’s Festival Hall, IN/SITU will be curated by the Centre Pompidou Foundation Curator of American Art and the Centre Pompidou Curator-at-Large Florence Derieux. EXPO VIDEO, a dynamic screening program for film, video and new media works, will be selected by Adjunct Curator at the Hammer Museum Ali Subotnick. Director of Exhibitions and Senior Curator at Dallas Contemporary Justine Ludwig, will curate the EXPOSURE section—highlighting emerging work from galleries eight years and younger. The extended five-day, sixth edition of EXPO CHICAGO runs 13–17 September, 2017 at Navy Piers Festival Hall.

In addition to the on-site program Curators, Katell Jaffrès of the Palais de Tokyo will curate the first US-based iteration of the “Hors Les Murs” exhibition program, opening as an official satellite of EXPO CHICAGO (12 September – 29 October, 2017). The exhibition inaugurates a global partnership with the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and the Institut français and will run concurrently with the Chicago Architecture Biennial (16 September – 31 December, 2017).

Installed within the expansive, vaulted architecture of Navy Pier’s Festival Hall, IN/SITU features large-scale, suspended sculptures and site-specific works. Curator of American Art of the Centre Pompidou Foundation and Curator-at-Large of the Centre Pompidou, based in New York, Florence Derieux, will curate a selection of works featuring artists from leading international exhibitors participating in the 2017 exposition. Derieux was previously involved with the fair in 2016, both as a guest of the Curatorial Forum as well as a participant in a featured panel discussion with Sarah Thornton, The Trans-Atlantic Museum, hosted as part of Exchange by Northern Trust: An Interactive Conversation Around the Art of Collecting. Derieux follows past IN/SITU curators Diana Nawi (2016) | Associate Curator at Pérez Art Museum Miami; Louis Grachos (2015) | Executive Director of The Contemporary Austin; Renaud Proch (2014) | Executive Director, Independent Curators International (ICI); Shamim M. Momin (2013) | Director and Curator, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND); and Michael Ned Holte (2012) | independent curator and art critic. For more information, click here.

EXPO VIDEO features a dynamic, curated screening program for film, video and new media works by artists represented by 2017 exhibitors. Curated by Adjunct Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles Ali Subotnick, the program will be presented within large-format screening rooms, as well as several viewing stations designed by Studio Gang Architects on the main floor of the exposition. Subotnick follows past EXPO VIDEO curators Daria de Beauvais (2016) | Curator at Palais de Tokyo; Alfredo Cramerotti (2015) | independent curator and Director of MOSTYN (Wales, United Kingdom); Astria Suparak, (2014) | artist and independent curator; and Dean Otto (2013) | Program Manager of the Film/Video Department at Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center. For more information, click here.

The EXPOSURE section, installed on the main floor of the exposition, features solo and two-artist presentations represented by galleries eight years and younger. Focusing on a curated selection of emerging artists, with the advisement of the Selection Committee, EXPOSURE will be curated by Director of Exhibitions and Senior Curator at Dallas Contemporary Justine Ludwig.

As previously announced, EXPO CHICAGO will partner with the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and the Institut français for the first US-based iteration of the Hors les Murs program, a large-scale exhibition presented as an official satellite program during EXPO CHICAGO aligning with the opening of the 2017 Chicago Architectural Biennial (16 September – 31 December, 2017). The program, curated by Palais de Tokyo’s Katell Jaffrès, is an extension of the French-American Curatorial Exchange initiated in 2013 with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States. The project will develop in two parts; the first through a strategic residency partnership with Mana Contemporary Chicago, allowing international artists to produce new work in Chicago specifically for the exhibition. The second part is the large-scale exhibition, to take place at a site to-be-announced, through a partnership with the Graham Foundation nominating a local emerging architect to collaborate with Jaffrès on a singular approach to the space and exhibition design. The exhibition will feature the work of 8–12 artists, both based in France and abroad as well as local emerging artists in Chicago.

The Palais de Tokyo’s Hors les Murs program has been installed in eight cities to date. Past exhibitions include Zürich, parallel to Manifesta 11 (June 2016), Singapore, co-produced with the ICA Singapore on the occasion of Art Stage Singapore (January 2016), two participations at the Lyon Biennale (2013 and 2015) and the itinerant exhibition Inside China, co-produced with the K11 Foundation during Art Basel Hong Kong and in Shanghai (2015). Projects have also been developed with MoMA PS1 in New York and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2014). Upcoming exhibitions after the 2017 Chicago iteration include Dakar and Havana (2018), and Sharjah and Istanbul (2019). For more information, click here.

EXPO CHICAGO 2017 Selection Committee
Comprised of a diverse group of leading gallerists, EXPO CHICAGO 2017 Exhibitors will be chosen by a Selection Committee including Stefania Bortolami | Bortolami, New York; John Corbett | Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago; Chris D’Amelio | David Zwirner, New York, London; Rhona Hoffman | Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; David Nolan | David Nolan Gallery, New York; Jessica Silverman | Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco; and Susanne Vielmetter | Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles. Selection Committee members to date.

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EXPOSURE

Curated by Justine Ludwig | Dallas Contemporary

The EXPOSURE section, installed on the main floor of the exposition, features solo and two-artist presentations represented by galleries eight years and younger. Focusing on a curated selection of emerging artists, with the advisement of the Selection Committee, EXPOSURE will be curated by Director of Exhibitions and Senior Curator at Dallas Contemporary Justine Ludwig.

Ludwig’s career has included positions at Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Rose Art Museum, the Colby College Museum of Art, the Danforth Museum of Art, the Bernard Toale Gallery and the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Recent curated exhibitions include Bani Abidi: An Unforeseen Situation, Nadia Kaabi-Linke: Walk the Line, Pia Camil: Skins and Laercio Redondo: What ends every day. Her research interests include memory, new media, architecture, economics and the aesthetics of globalization. Ludwig has an MA in Global Arts from Goldsmiths University of London and a BA in Art with a concentration in Art History from Colby College.