CFC Members Quiz: Valentina Ravaglia
Contemporary Art Curator Valentina Ravaglia in conversation with Maria Cynkier, 24th October 2022
CFC Members Quiz is a series of weekly online events on Instagram Live in which we introduce CFC Members to our digital audiences. Through this new format, we aim to spotlight Members of our community, showcase the diversity of their curatorial interests and specialisms, and facilitate new networks of influences and potential exchanges.
Valentina Ravaglia has been working as Curator, Displays and International Art at Tate Modern, London since August 2019. In her previous role as Assistant Curator (2012-2019), she contributed to the complete rehang of Collection Displays in the run-up to the opening of the New Tate Modern in June 2016. She was also the Assistant Curator for the 2017 Turbine Hall Commission by SUPERFLEX and Tate Modern’s 2019 Nam June Paik retrospective. She has curated displays focussing on works by Phyllida Barlow, Rebecca Horn, Lee Bul, Mike Kelley, Gustav Metzger, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Paul Neagu and Allora & Calzadilla among others, as well as group displays such as Performing Genders, Performing Selves (2022-ongoing), A Year in Art: Australia 1992 (2022-ongoing), Impermanence (2019-2020), Feminism and Media (2016-2022), A View from Zagreb: Op and Kinetic Art (2016-2022), A View from Buenos Aires: Systems and Communication (2016-ongoing).
Outside Tate Modern, she curated ARTIST ROOMS: Lawrence Weiner at The McManus, Dundee in 2018 and Aura Satz. Dial Tone Drone at Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, in 2019.
She holds an MA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is in the very final stages of her PhD at Birkbeck, University of London, with a thesis titled “Exhibiting New Materialisms and New Realisms: the Influence of Contemporary Anti-Anthropocentric Philosophies on 21st Century Curatorial Practices”.
CFC Members Quiz is a series of weekly online events on Instagram Live in which we introduce CFC Members to our digital audiences. Through this new format, we aim to spotlight Members of our community, showcase the diversity of their curatorial interests and specialisms, and facilitate new networks of influences and potential exchanges.
