June Crespo

Background Evening

Background evening

24/10/2024

19:00

For the Background Evening event of their weft, the grass, 1646 has invited curator Marc Navarro to go in conversation with June Crespo. They will share with us the starting point for their collaborative exhibition they saw their house turning into fields that took place in 2023 at Museum Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid, and how this connects to the thinking and the works that can now be seen in The Hague.

Marc Navarro is a curator and writer based in Berlin. He has curated exhibitions at CA2M – Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Espai 13 – Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida, Lo Pati – Centre d’Art Terres de l’Ebre, Amposta, the MAMT – Museu d’Art Modern de Tarragona, among others. His texts have been published in catalogs and specialised publications. He is the co-editor of the books Assuming Assymetries. Conversations on Curating Public Art in the 1980s and 1990s (2022) en Curating Beyond the Mainstream. The Practices of Carlos Capelán, Elisabet Haglund, Gunilla Lundahl, and Jan-Erik Lundström (2022) both published by Sternberg Press – Konstfack Collection. He has received curatorial research scholarships from OSIC and the Berlin Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa.

During this event, they will share with our audience insights on what were the starting points and inspirations of these ongoing series of works.

Hope to see you there!

Doors open at 19:00, programme starts at 19:30.

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About June Crespo (Pamplona, 1982) lives and works in Bilbao. She obtained her BFA from the Basque Country University (Bilbao) in 2005 and completed a two-year residency at De Ateliers (Amsterdam) in 2017. Her solo shows include Vascular (2024) at the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum; they saw their house turn into fields (2023) at CA2M, Madrid; Acts of Pulse (2022) at P420, Bologna; entre alguien y algo (2022) at CarrerasMugica, Bilbao; Am I an Object (2021) PA///KT (Amsterdam); Helmets (2020) Artium, Basque Museum-Center of Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz; No Osso (2019) at Certain Lack of Coherence, Porto; Ser Dos (2017) and Cosa y tú (2015) at CarrerasMugica gallery in Bilbao. Recently her work has also been shown in groups such as: L´écorce (2023) at CRAC-Alsace; The Milk of Dreams (2022) at the Venice Biennale; Fata Morgana (2022) Jeu de Paume (Paris) and The Point of Sculpture (2021) at the Fundación Miró (Barcelona).