The Curatorial Roundtable: Filipa Ramos (Tokyo)

MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk with writer and curator Filipa Ramos, PhD. Ramos is Lecturer at the Arts Institute of the HGK/FHNW, Basel. Her research focuses on how contemporary art engages with nature and ecology. She has been curator of the Art Basel Film sector (2020-24) and a founding curator of the online artists’ cinema, Vdrome (since 2013). Current projects include “BESTIARI,” the Catalan representation at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2024) and the arts, humanities and science festival, “The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish” (since 2018, with Lucia Pietroiusti). In 2024, she curated “Songs for the Changing Seasons” for the 1. Klima Biennale Wien (with Pietroiusti) and in 2022, “Persons Persone Personen,” the 8th Biennale Gherdëina (with Pietroiusti). In 2021, she co-curated “Bodies of Water,” the 13th Shanghai Biennale (with Andrés Jaque, Pietroiusti, Marina Otero Verzier, and Mi You). Ramos was editor-in-chief of e-flux criticism (2013-20), associate editor of Manifesta Journal (2009-11) and contributed to documenta 13 (2012) and 14 (2017). She authored Lost and Found (Silvana Editoriale, 2009) and edited Animals (Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press, 2016). Her upcoming book, The Artist as Ecologist, will be published by Lund Humphries in 2025.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.