The Need for Art to Change the World

The Studio Arts Sculpture Program is pleased to present curator Mathieu Copeland who will be giving a talk on the work of Gustav Metzger.

This event is free and everone is welcome!

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Mathieu Copeland has been developing a curatorial practice that seeks to subvert the traditional role of exhibitions and renew our perceptions of them.

Among many others, Copeland co-curated VOIDS. A Retrospective (Centre Pompidou and Kunsthalle Bern, 2009) and curated the Exhibitions to Hear Read (2010— ongoing, presented in 2013 at MoMA—New York), The exhibition of a film (an exhibition as a feature film for cinemas, 2015), A Retrospective of closed exhibitions (Kunsthalle Fribourg, 2016), and A Staged Exhibition that premiered in September 2021. Copeland curated the retrospectives on Alan Vega and Gustav Metzger (MAC Lyon, 2009 and 2013); Phill Niblock and Robert Barry (Circuit Lausanne, 2013 and 2022). His latest exhibition The Anti-Museum: An Anti-Documentary will open at the Galerie UQO – Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, Gatineau on the 18/10/2023, and last until the 11/11/2023.

He was associate curator at the Musée du Jeu de Paume Paris (2013-14), guest curator at the Plateau – FRAC Île-de-France (with Philippe Decrauzat, 2014-15), and guest curator at the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2020-21).

Mathieu Copeland (PhD) is Senior Lecturer at Leeds School of Arts – Leeds Beckett University, and edited over twenty-five books, notably Choreographing Exhibitions (Les presses du réel, 2013), The Anti-Museum (Koenig Books, 2017), Gustav Metzger: Writings (1953-2016) (JRP|Editions, 2019), and recently Phill Niblock – Nothing but working (Verlag Koenig, 2023).