Independent Curators International (ICI) supports the work of curators to help create stronger art communities through experimentation, collaboration, and international engagement. Curators are arts community leaders and organizers who champion artistic practice; build essential infrastructures and institutions; and generate public engagement with art. Our collaborative programs connect curators across generations, and across social, political and cultural borders. They form an international framework for sharing knowledge and resources — promoting cultural exchange, access to art, and public awareness for the curator’s role.
Jenny Schlenzka

Jenny Schlenzka is the Associate Curator at MoMA PS1, New York mainly in charge of live programming. Together with Ralph Lemon she co-organized the dance series, Some sweet day, featuring Steve Paxton, Jérôme Bel, Faustin Linyekula, Sarah Michelson, and Deborah Hay at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. From 2008-12 she was Assistant Curator for Performance in the Department of Media and Performance Art at MoMA, where she was the first curator to focus on presenting, collecting, as well as exhibiting performance-based art, and where she co-organized the Performance Exhibition Series with artists like Tehching Hsieh, Simone Forti, Roman Ondák, Xavier Leroy, and Allora & Calzadilla, among many others. Prior to working at the Museum, Schlenzka worked as a curatorial liaison between KW, Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin and P.S.1, Contemporary Art Center, New York, where she helped organize exhibitions such as Into Me / Out of Me (2006), Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz (2007), and Political/ Minimal (2008). In 2007 she received her Master’s in Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University, Berlin. Schlenzka is currently writing a dissertation on the notion of time in the split-screen image at University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
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Summer 2013
Focusing on new models for curating and exhibition development, ICI’s annual summer Curatorial Intensive offers curators the opportunity to meet colleagues from around the world and share ideas on how to push the parameters of their practice.
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