Saturday, May 10, 9 pm

Performance: Kalup Linzy

Saturday, March 8, 8 pm

Lecture: Adam Budak
Curator / Kunsthaus Graz
and Co-curator of Manifesta 7

Adam Budak is curator for contemporary art at the Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz; and one of the co-curators of Manifesta 7 (Summer 2008). He lives in Krakow / Poland and Graz, Austria. In 2003, he was one of the co-curators of the Prague Biennale 1 (National Museum, Prague, 2003) and a curator of the Prague Biennale II (2005) with an exhibition “Manipulations. On Economies of Deceit” (with amongst others – Pascal Grandmaison, Jorge Pardo, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Julian Rosefeldt, Runa Islam, Johan Grimonprez and others).

Some recent projects include exhibitions: “Videodreams: Between the Cinematic and the Theatrical”, “Vera Lutter: Inside In”, “John Baldessari: Life’s Balance. Works 1984-2005”, “Two or Three or Something. Maria Lassnig, Liz Larner” (all at the Kunsthaus Graz), „Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. Spatial Emotion in Contemporary Art and Architecture” (at the migros museum, Zurich), the first in Poland retrospective of Louise Bourgeois, „Louise Bourgeois: Geometry of Desire” (at the Zacheta Gallery of Art, Warsaw), „Polyphony of Voices” conference on contemporary curatorial strategies and methods of working with artists and „Why Pictures Now” conference on contemporary uses of photography (both at the Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow). His most recent exhibition projects at the Kunsthaus Graz are: “Protections. This Is Not an Exhibition” (2006, a group show with – amongst others – Elmgreen&Dragset, Markus Schinwald, Daria Martin, Roman Ondak, Kris Martin, Cezary Bodzianowski, Christian Jankowski, Mark Wallinger, Tim Etchells, Vladka Horwath), “Cerith Wyn Evans: Bubble Peddler”, 2007, “Volksgarten. Politics of Belonging”, Autumn 2007; his most recent project outside of Kunsthaus Graz is: “Monika Sosnowska: Loop” in the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, 2007.