Curate 2009

This year we will be working with Myriam Blundell, who has selected an exciting programme of work, including the UK première of EXerciceS EXerciceS EXerciceS by Isabelle Arnoux and recent work by Michael Nyman, Karen Knorr and Michaela Nettell.

Myriam Blundell is an independent art curator based in London since 2006 and leads Myriam Blundell Projects – a contemporary art curatorial practice, since 2004. Dedicated to uncovering and exhibiting the work of emerging contemporary artists,  the practice acts as a coaching medium providing both commercial and creative guidance to an international pool of artists practicing in a variety of mediums. Her event portfolio includes a wide range of art events, including commercial shows, institutional exhibitions and educational art programmes. Most of Myriam Blundell’s work is concerned with displacing art from the traditional gallery environment and displaying it to fit alternative and unconventional spaces, with the purpose of reaching a wider public viewing audience and level of appreciation.

Recent projects include the Bow Art Trust Summer Show “Unnatural Histories”, curated in June 2009, the Free Art Fair programme, jointly curated with Jasper Joffe, and the show  “Et in Arcadia Ego”, an exhibition of photography by South African artist Vivian van Blerk, curated at the Cheyne Walk Salon in Chelsea last December.

In 2009 the Exhibition programme of Myriam Blundell Projects will include:
• “Bordello”, by Australian artist Vee Speers, Cheyne Walk Salon, London, March 2009
• “Apparitions”, by German artist Roland Biermann, German Embassy, London, September 2009
• “Four Turns of a Key”, an exhibition of sculpture by Canadian artist Elma McKay Johnston, supported by the Arts Arena Foundation and the American University in Paris.

Myriam Blundell has over 8 years of broad, diverse contemporary art advisory and curatorial experience. She is currently engaged as an associate editor for Enrico Navarra’s upcoming “Made by Brazilians”, which is a part of a definitive series of critically acclaimed, art publications dedicated to depicting contemporary art, architecture and design in numerous emerging art markets, including China, India and the Arab world. She is the Executive Director of the Friends of Signy and Olaf Willums Foundation in Provence, France, which awards an annual residence for outstanding emerging artists. She is also the founding Chair of the International Collectors Forum at the Contemporary Art Society in London, and has recently joined the board of trustees of the Bow Arts Trust.

Myriam Blundell holds a Christie’s Fine & Decorative Arts Diploma from Christie’s Education Paris, France in association with University of Cambridge, UK. She also holds a BA in Economics from the University of Montreal and a Graduate Diploma in Business Management (D.E.S.G) from L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Montréal (HEC).