Question time: Lecture by Kimberley Moutlon
About this Event
Hear international curator, writer and our second Creative New Zealand Te Manu Ka Tau international guest Kimberley Moulton introduce their curatorial work through the lens of the Artspace Aotearoa 2026 question “which history?”
In this talk, Moulton will share perspectives drawn from her practice working across contemporary art, museums, and Indigenous cultural contexts.
This kaupapa is presented with Creative New Zealand Toi o Aotearoa and association with Elam School of Fine Arts, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, and supported by Tony Kerrdige and Micheal Do.
WHAT TO EXPECT
This event is free.
This event will be held at the Elam Lecture Theatre, Building 432, 20 Whitaker Place (off Symonds Street) Grafton, Auckland.
This event will be seated and microphones will be used.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr Kimberley Moulton is a Yorta Yorta woman from Australia and a curator and writer. Kimberley is a respected international curator working across modern and contemporary art and historical collections. Leading research and curatorial practice in the field of connecting knowledge, histories and futures at the intersection of historical collections and contemporary art, her work centres regenerative re-worlding of art histories and ecological, cultural and relational Indigenous and Global Majority creative practices. She is currently Senior Curator Exhibitions at RISING, the Melbourne international arts festival and most recently held tenure as the Adjunct Curator Indigenous Art Tate London (2023-2026). She has a PhD in curatorial practice from Monash University Melbourne and in 2023 was appointed Curator Emeritus, First Peoples at Museums Victoria.Working with artists to amplify underrepresented art histories, her practice foregrounds connecting communities to collections, through rematriation and re-spiriting collections and place beyond the colonial past. This work has positioned Moulton at the forefront of local and international curatorial and writing praxis which supports contemporary art across multidiscipline areas to re-frame a new dialogue between object, place and community. Kimberley’s research interests include Indigenous rematriation, Ancestral belongings and restitution, Indigenous space-time cosmologies and embodied knowledge in contemporary art practice.Along with her curatorial work Kimberley is currently Deputy Chair of the Board for Australia’s leading regional art gallery, Shepparton Art Museum and Director of the board for the Adam Briggs Foundation.
Where is it happening?
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