British art historian, curator, writer, and teacher David Elliott shares his experiences as a prolific director of museums and biennales, including the 2008 Sydney Biennale, as part of the Biennale’s Biennale Archive Stories program. Don’t miss the opportunity to gain an insight into how large, ambitious arts projects are realised.
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David Elliott has directed art museums: Museum of Modern Art in Oxford (1976–96), Moderna Museet in Stockholm (1996–2001), Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (2001–6), and Museum of Modern Art in Istanbul (2007). He is currently Vice Director and Senior Curator at the Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art (RMCA) and Arts District in Guangzhou. He directed the Sydney Biennale The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age (2008), the inaugural International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Kyiv The Best of Times, the Worst of Times (2012), the International Moscow Biennale of Young Art A Time for Dreams (2014), and the October Salon in Belgrade The Pleasure of Love (2016). His book Art and Trousers: Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Asian Art, will be published by ArtAsiaPacific in 2018.
