Margarita Gluzberg in conversation with Daniel Birnbaum

On the occasion of the artist’s solo exhibition in London, Margarita Gluzberg will be in conversation with Daniel Birnbaum. Please join us at Alma Pearl (Unit T, Reliance Wharf, 2-10 Hertford Road, N1 5ET) at 6:30 pm for an informal drinks reception before the talk at 7:00 pm.

RSVP is essential as spaces are limited.

About Margarita Gluzberg:

Born in Moscow in 1968, Margarita Gluzberg has lived in London since 1979. She studied at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, and the Royal College of Art in London. Solo exhibitions include Proper Time, Karsten Schubert, London (2022); In Paradise, Pushkin House, London (2019); For Children Not For Children, Filet Space, London (2018); Avenue des Gobelins, Paradise Row, London (2012). Her work was presented at major contemporary art spaces including the Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö; Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort; Lunds Konsthall, Lund; The British School at Rome (where she was a Wingate Scholar); Drawing Room, London; and Site Gallery, Sheffield. In 2016, her Wellcome Trust project ‘Rock on Bones’, a series of multimedia performance lectures, was staged at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill; the London Performance Studios; and the Royal College of Art. Her work was featured in Artforum, Art Review, The Guardian and Frieze Magazine, amongst others.

About Daniel Birnbaum

Daniel Birnbaum (Artistic Director, Acute Art) Swedish art critic, theoretician, curator and the former Director of the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) in Stockholm, Daniel has been the Artistic Director of Acute Art in London since 2019. From 1989 until 1997, Birnbaum worked as an art critic at the leading Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter and also as an independent curator. In 1998, he obtained his doctoral degree from Stockholm University with a thesis on Edmund Husserl. Birnbaum is a contributing editor of the international art magazine Artforum, and has written extensively on art and philosophy for magazines including Parkett and Frieze. Birnbaum has been director of IASPIS and in 2000, became Director at Städelschule, one of Europe’s most experimental art academies. During his time at this fine arts academy, he also presided over Portikus, Städelschule’s exhibition site which is also recognised as one of the leading places for contemporary art in Germany.

Daniel was co-curator of the international section at the 50th Venice Biennale and the artistic director of the 53rd Venice Biennale. Birnbaum also worked as co-curator of the first and second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art and was a member of the jury for the 2008 Turner Prize. Daniel co-founded the Zero Foundation in Düsseldorf in 2008 and in 2010, became the Director of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Daniel has established a reputation for showing key artists very early in their careers including internationally recognised artists such as Olafur Eliasson.

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