INTERDISCIPLINARY TALK | ZURICH ART WEEKEND

With Jeffrey Gibson, artist, moderated by Abigail Winograd, curator of boshullichi / inlʋchi, we will continue to change.

JEFFREY GIBSON

Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972, Colorado Springs, CO; lives and works in New York) is an artist, curator and educator. He grew up in major urban centres in the United States, Germany, Korea and the UK. He is a citizen of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent. Gibson earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995 and his Master of Arts in painting at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1998.

ABIGAIL WINOGRAD

Abigail Winograd is an independent curator and writer currently serving as co-director and chief curator of Pueblo Unido Gallery. She recently commissioned and co-curated Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition for the 2024 U.S. Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale. Winograd has curated exhibitions around the world, held positions at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, the Smart Museum of Art, Frans Hals Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Blanton Museum of Art, and Art Institute of Chicago, and published extensively.

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Initiated in 2018 as the Art + Science Talks, the Zurich Art Weekend Interdisciplinary Talks seek to generate unconventional exchanges between creative thinkers who are active at the highest level of excellence in the arts, humanities, the natural sciences, and public life. Organised on the occasion of ZURICH ART WEEKEND June program and kindly hosted by schwarzescafé / Luma Westbau, we delve into the current conversations celebrating the vastness of interdisciplinary work by leading artists, curators, writers, academics, scientists, and researchers who bridge the gap between these fields. We encourage “out of the box” discussions, shared perspectives, and lively debate.

These Interdisciplinary Talks, moderated by a journalist, curator, or academic, pair internationally acclaimed contemporary artists with leading figures from other fields. They aim to tease out crossovers in research of supposedly opposing disciplines. Alongside our team, the talks have been curated by Daniel Baumann (Director Kunsthalle Zurich 2015-2025), Jacqueline Burckhardt (Art Historian and Editor) and others.

All talks are free and open to the public, with RSVP recommended.

Events will take place at schwarzescafé / Luma Westbau, Löwenbräukunst, Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zurich.

Image: Portrait of Jeffrey Gibson, 2024. Photo: Inez and Vinoodh