Talk with Michelle Millar Fisher, Franziska Nori and Natalia Sielewicz
Filmquartier, Vienna
19 October 2021
In October 2021, Phileas hosted a public conversation between three participants of the 2021 group research trip to Vienna; Michelle Millar Fisher (curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Franziska Nori (Director of Frankfurter Kunstverein) and Natalia Sielewicz (curator at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw). In conversation with Phileas director Jasper Sharp, they discussed their impressions of Vienna, while sharing insights into their own work, curatorial approaches and current projects.
Michelle Millar Fisher is the Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work focuses on the intersections of people, power, and the material world. In addition, Fisher forms part of an independent team of collaborators working on a book, exhibition, curriculum, and programme series called Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births.
Prof. Franziska Nori has been Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein since November 2014. With a focus on art and science, she conceives and curates exhibitions on digital topics such as changing human perception in virtual worlds or the perspective of learning algorithms and artificial intelligence. Under her directorship, the Kunstverein was honoured with the Binding Culture Prize as an outstanding Frankfurt cultural institution in 2019. In 2020, she received the Dr. Marschner Exhibition Prize for the best curatorial concept.
Natalia Sielewicz is an art historian and curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. In her exhibitions and essays, she undertakes issues related to feminism, technology and affective cultures. Previous exhibitions she has curated include Agnieszka Polska. The Thousand-year Plan (2021), Paint also known as Blood. Women, Affect and Desire in Contemporary Painting (2019). She also curated the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Intimacy as Text (2017), dedicated to affects, autofiction and poetics of confession in literature and visual arts as well as Private settings (2014), one of the first institutional shows analysing the impact of the Internet 2.0 on the human condition in the age of late capitalism.
