Los Angeles 2024

• Welcomes Day 1 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

  

  Welcome by Johanna Burton, The Maurice Marciano Director, MOCA & Clara Kim, Chief Curator & Director of Curatorial Affairs, MOCA. Welcome by Joan Weinstein, Director, Getty Foundation and welcome by Suhanya Raffel, CIMAM President

• Mark Bradford

  

  Mark Bradford, Artist, Los Angeles.

• J Fiona Ragheb

  

  J Fiona Ragheb, Deputy Director for Curatorial and Exhibitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles.

• Kelsey Shell

  

  Kelsey Shell, Environmental & Sustainability Strategist, MOCA, Los Angeles.

• Daniel Vega

  

  Daniel Vega, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Conservation, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao.

• Cecilia Winter

  

  Cecilia Winter, Project Specialist, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, USA.

• John Kenneth Paranada

  

  John Kenneth Paranada, Curator of Art and Climate Change, Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, London.

• Day 1 Session 1 moderated by Suzanne Cotter

  

  Session: What is our Agency?: The Contemporary Art Museum and Climate Crisis. Moderated by Suzanne Cotter, CIMAM Board Member, Member of the 2024 Contents Committee, and Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney.

• Michael Maltzan

  

  Michael Maltzan, Principal, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Inc., Los Angeles.

• Andrea Lissoni

  

  Andrea Lissoni, Artistic Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich.

• Sara Zewde

  

  Sara Zewde, Principal, Studio Zewde, New York.

• Day 1 Session 2 Moderated by Chus Martinez

  

  Session: Sustainable Ecosystems: Rethinking Museum Collections and Buildings within the Urban and Social Realm. Moderated by Chus Martinez, CIMAM Board Member, and Director, Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel, Switzerland.

• Welcome Day 2 at the Hammer Museum UCLA

  

  Welcome by Aram Moshayedi, Interim Chief Curator, Hammer Museum

• Manuel Segade

  

  Manuel Segade, Director, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS), Madrid.

• Mai Abu ElDahab

  

  Mai Abu ElDahab, Director, Mophradat, Brussels.

• Ibrahim Mahama in conversation with Yesomi Umolu

  

  Ibrahim Mahama, Artist and Founder, Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) and Red Clay Studio, Ghana, in conversation with Yesomi Umolu, Arts Leader and Curator, London

• Andrea Fraser

  

  Andrea Fraser, Professor, UCLA, Los Angeles.

• Day 2 Session Moderated by Aram Moshayedi

  

  Session: Economies of Sustainability: Ethics, Values and Resilience, Moderated by Aram Moshayedi

• Welcome Day 3 at LACMA & Academy Museum

  

  Welcome by Michael Govan, CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director, LACMA, & Rita Gonzalez, Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art, LACMA

• Candice Hopkins

  

  Introduction by Joselina Cruz, Director/Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila and Keynote: Candice Hopkins, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Forge Projects, Taghkanic.

• Edgar Calel

  

  Edgar Calel, Artist, San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala.

• Pablo José Ramírez

  

  Pablo José Ramírez, Curator, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

• Djon Mundine

  

  Djon Mundine, Artist, Curator, Activist and Writer, Australia.

• Taloi Havini

  

  Taloi Havini, Artist, Brisbane.

• Day 3 Session Moderated by Rita Gonzalez

  

  Session: Sustainable Communities: Indigenous Perspectives and Worldviews, Moderated by Rita Gonzalez, Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art at LACMA.

• Conference closing remarks by Content Committee members

  

  The CIMAM 2024 Annual Conference has been conceived and organized by the Content Steering Committee comprising Clara Kim, Suzanne Cotter, Joselina Cruz, Amanda de la Garza, Rita Gonzalez, Aram Moshayedi, and Kitty Scott.

• CIMAM 2024 General Assembly in Los Angeles

  

  CIMAM General Assembly during the 56th Annual Conference in Los Angeles. “Sustainable Futures: How? When? For Whom?”