Meruro Washida, Director, Towada Art Center
In conversation with Laura Bardier, Director, ESTE ARTE
In English, without translation.
Open to the public.
With the support of Uruguay XXI.
Meruro Washida
Director, Towada Art Center and Associate Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts. WASHIDA was born in Kyoto in 1973. He was a curator at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa from 1999 to 2018. He received his master's degree from the University of Tokyo, where he studied art history. He specializes in contemporary art history and museum studies and curates contemporary art and architecture exhibitions and projects. His major curatorial works for the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa include “Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA” (2005); “Atelier Bow-Wow” (2007); “Kanazawa Platform 2008” (2008); “Jeppe Hein” (2011), “Shimabuku” (2013); “Starting Points: Japanese Art of the ‘80s.” He was the curator of the Japan Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale held in 2017 and Aichi Triennale 2019. In 2020, he became the director of Towada Art Center, where he co-curated “Inter + Play” (2020-21).
Laura Bardier
Founding Director of ESTE ARTE and Executive Director of the James Howell Foundation in New York. Previously, Bardier held key positions at the Cultural Department of the Municipality of Napoli (Italy) and major private collections in the United States. She has curated exhibitions in Uruguay, Italy, and the U.S.; her writing on contemporary art has been published in Domus Magazine, Arte al Día, Review, and Infonegocios. Bardier was a member of the National Committee of Visual Arts of Uruguay and is a Board member of ArtTable, ICI-Independent Curators International, and Creative Capital.
ESTE ARTE is a collaborative effort. Meruro Washida's participation has been made possible through the support of Uruguay XXI, which provided his travel arrangements, and the generosity of Xippas Gallery, which offered the venue.