Thursday, April 26, 2012, 6PM
The 6th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Lecture Series
Okwui Enwezor, 2012 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor
Disrupted and Disarticulated: Body Politic and the work of Marlene Dumas and Wangechi Mutu

Thursday, March 29, 2012, 6PM
The 6th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Lecture Series
Okwui Enwezor, 2012 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor
At Home in the World: The Art of El Anatsui and William Kentridge
Watch this lecture online.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 6PM
The 6th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Lecture Series
Okwui Enwezor, 2012 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor
Episodes in Contemporary African Art Setting the Stage: Contemporary African Art, From Postcolonial Utopia to Postcolonial Realism
Watch this lecture online.

The Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professorship brings a distinguished scholar to the Institute each year to teach a course and give a series of public lectures. The Professorship was endowed in 2006 by the late Professor Varnedoe’s friends and colleagues to honor and perpetuate his legacy of innovative teaching and remarkable public presence. Past holders of this position include Wu Hung (2011), David Joselit (2010), Alexander Potts (2009), Molly Nesbit (2008), and Jeffrey Weiss (2007).

In spring 2012, esteemed curator and scholar Okwui Enwezor will join the IFA as the sixth Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor. Enwezor was recently appointed the Director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich. He previously served as the Dean of Academic Affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute and adjunct curator at the International Center of Photography in New York. He has curated numerous international exhibitions, including Documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany, the seventh Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, and will serve as the 2012 chief curator of La Triennale in Paris. He has written extensively on contemporary art, with recent publications Contemporary African Art Since 1980 and Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity.

Past Varnedoe Visiting Professors

2011 Wu Hung [watch videos online]

2010 David Joselit [watch videos online]

2009 Alexander Potts [watch videos online]

2008 Molly Nesbit

2007 Jeffrey Weiss