bio...modus operandi

Hello!

I’m Milena, and I'm a curator of contemporary art, writer, and occasionally a consultant, as well.

Through the course of my career in the arts, I've worked with various organizations including Video Pool Media Arts Centre (Winnipeg), send+receive: a festival of sound (Winnipeg), SMART Project Space (Amsterdam), the Ottawa Art Gallery, the Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff), A Space Gallery (Toronto), and the Textile Museum of Canada (Toronto), among others. I recently fulfilled a 14-month term as Acting Director of the University of Winnipeg’s Gallery 1C03. I am currently Co-Director (Programming and Adminstration) of a new production and presentation site, ATOMIC CENTRE, and I look forward to embarking on a one-year relationship with Konstfack University College of Art, Craft, and Design (Stockholm) where I will be a curator/researcher in residence through CuratorLab.


More about me…

I hold a Master of Museum Studies from the University of Toronto and the research I conducted during my time there continues to serve as the basis for my ongoing investigations into audience-centered curatorial practices, integrated public programming, and socially engaged cultural policy.

I am a member of IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art) and I am very happy to have received generous support from organizations including the Canada Council for the Arts, the Winnipeg and Manitoba Arts Councils, the International Association of Art Critics (Armenia), the Consulate General of France in Toronto, and the Henry Moore Foundation. In addition to commissioned critical responses, I’ve also written for Fuse, Border Crossings, and MUSE.

My recent exhibitions including The Arts of Togetherness (Toronto, 2009), The Pinky Show: Class Treason Stories (excerpts) (Winnipeg, 2009; Toronto, 2010), and Evan Tapper: Swoon (Winnipeg, 2010). Three online exhibitions as part of the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad will be online until the end of March, Competition (2009), Corporatization (2009), and Consumerism (2010). Showing Up, Speaking Out -- a project concerned with municipal citizenry – in on at aceartinc. until October 5, 2010.

If you'd like additional information about what I've done, what I do, or what I'm hoping to do in the future, just ask. I look forward to hearing from you!




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