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.
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Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art
In the past five to ten years, humor has turned up with increasing frequency in contemporary art, perhaps satisfying an urgent need among artists and audiences alike to reflect upon the absurdity of daily existence.
read more »Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflatable Structures
Thin Skin brings together some of the most interesting recent work involving malleable, inflatable materials.
read more »Almost Warm & Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art
Various views of childhood – a mix of innocence and nostalgia, comic-strip heroes and science fiction, fairy tales and computer games – are explored in this exhibitions combining approximately forty thought-provoking works by contemporary artists and artists’ groups from the United States and abroad.
read more »At the Threshold of the Visible
This exhibition examines the uses and the value of tininess in contemporary art practices during the past thirty years. It focuses on artworks that embody specific qualities and issues associated with the extremely small, in particular, intimacy, a problematic accessibility, and a conception of the sublime that is playfully paradoxical.
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