Willem de Rooij and Pablo Lafuente Discuss 'Intolerance' at Afterall Symposium

The 'Artist as Curator' symposium hosted by Afterall features a dialogue between artist Willem de Rooij and Pablo Lafuente. De Rooij reflects on his 2010 exhibition 'Intolerance' at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, where he compared 17th-century bird artworks by Melchior d'Hondecoeter with 18th-century Hawaiian ceremonial feathered items. The discussion covers themes such as selection, juxtaposition, research, installation, and collage. Based in Berlin, de Rooij has recently exhibited solo shows, including 'Black and Blue' at Galerie Chantal Crousel (2012) and 'Crazy Repelled Firelight' at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (2011). He teaches at De Ateliers in Amsterdam and is a Fine Art Professor at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Additional symposium events include Sharon Chin on 'Hiding in Plain Sight' (31 Jan 2024) and Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza on Gayatri Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' (11 Apr 2023), along with a two-part symposium 'Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy (1974–77)' (2 Feb 2023), organized by Afterall Exhibition Histories in collaboration with the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Asia Art Archive, and the University of Gothenburg, with support from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.