A Conference on Curating Contemporary Craft
On October 4, 250 people attended Curating Craft, a full-day conference focused on the subject of curating contemporary craft. Curating Craft marked the opening of the five-year anniversary edition of Stockholm Craft Week, featuring participants from the Nordic countries and the United States.
Throughout the day, on October 4, 2023, practitioners and industry professionals gathered at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern for Curating Craft, a conference aimed at strengthening the field of contemporary craft curation. The conference inaugurated Stockholm Craft Week 2023 and was organized by Konsthantverkscentrum in collaboration with NNCA – Nordic Network of Crafts Associations. With distinguished speakers and panelists from the Nordic countries and the U.S., Curating Craft set the tone for Stockholm Craft Week 2023. As the day concluded, the conference transitioned into the opening celebration of Stockholm Craft Week’s five-year anniversary, with hundreds in attendance. Sweden’s Minister of Culture, Parisa Liljestrand, delivered the opening speech.
Curating Craft is organized by the Swedish Crafts Centre (Konsthantverkscentrum) and NNCA – Nordic Network of Crafts Associations, with support from the Nordic Culture Fund and IASPIS – International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts
See videos from the conference below.
Contributors
Speakers
- Damon Crain (US) • Gallerist and curator
Damon Crain runs Culture Object in New York, a gallery with focus on objects that integrate conceptuality with functionality. As an art and design historian, he specialises in glass art and collaborates with several Swedish glass artists. - Ragna Fróðadóttir (IS) • Artist and curator
Ragna Fróðadóttir is an artist and curator based in New York. She runs her own studio and is also the director of Edelkoort Inc and New York Textile Month. She was previously head of the textile department at the Reykjavik School of Visual Arts. - Daniela Ramos Arias (NO) • Curator
Daniela Ramos Arias is a curator and co-founder of Kiosken, an interdisciplinary platform for craft, art and design in Bergen. She is also one of the founders of the online publication Toolbox. - Bettina Køppe (DK) • Gallerist and curator
Bettina Køppe has extensive experience in curating crafts and runs Køppe Contemporary Objects gallery on Bornholm, Denmark. She is interested in how traditional craft techniques can be used to create contemporary expressions and relevance. - Marcia Harvey Isaksson (SE) • Gallerist and curator
Marcia Harvey Isaksson is a textile artist and curator, as well as the founder of the Fiberspace gallery in Stockholm. Her newly established platform Southnord has focus on creating space for Afro-Nordic artists.
Moderator
- Evelina Hedin (SE) • Project manager and curator
Evelina Hedin is an international coordinator at the Swedish Crafts Centre in Stockholm and was previously director of Gustavsbergs Konsthall. She is also a textile artist and curator within the field of craft.
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