Natelie King - Curator
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Maria Madeira: ‘I always thought of a better world’
For the inaugural Timor-Leste pavilion at Venice, Maria Madeira uncovers some of Timor’s painful histories to platform the resilience of its women.
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‘Trauma, hope and healing’: a closer look at Timor-Leste’s first-ever Venice Biennale pavilion
Twenty-five years since East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia, Timor-Leste has made its debut at the Venice Biennale with Maria Madeira’s Kiss and Don’t Tell at Spazio Ravà, a venue overlooking the Grand Canal in the San Polo district.
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Must-see pavilions at the Venice Biennale 2024
For an event whose central theme this year is foreigners and strangers, there is a surprising homogeny to the national pavilions at the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale. It feels as though Adriano Pedrosa’s theme has been taken up in similar ways by both artists and curators.
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Indigenous Artists Are the Heart of the Venice Biennale
Here are highlights of the range of work produced by Native artists in the pavilions and a central exhibition that proudly calls itself “Foreigners Everywhere”.
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Timor-Leste Presents Inaugural Pavilion at 2024 Venice Biennale
Timor-Leste’s inaugural pavilion at the upcoming 60th Venice Biennale will present Maria Madeira’s new project Kiss and Don’t Tell (2024), curated by Natalie King. Madeira’s exhibition coincides with the 25th anniversary of Timor-Leste’s independence from Indonesia.
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CoVA Films on Art: Natalie King with Yuki Kihara
We are here at Paradise Camp Yuki Kira’s exhibition from the Venice Biennale from 2022, now reconfigured and re curated at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.
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Natalie King to Curate First Timor-Leste Pavilion in Venice
It’s the third national pavilion that King has curated at the Venice Biennale since 2017.
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Maria Madeira: Kiss and Don’t Tell
Maria Madeira is the artist to represent Timor-Leste at the 60th International Venice Biennale taking place from April 20 to November 24, 2024. Timor-Leste’s inaugural pavilion coincides with the 25th anniversary of the independence of Timor-Leste.
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Swimming Against the Tide
The Surrealist Map of the World first appeared in 1929 in a special issue of Varietes, a Belgian periodical dedicated to the movement.
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Exhibition Review: Paradise Camp at the Aotearoa/New Zealand Pavilion of the 59th Venice Biennale
Paradise Camp, an immersive exhibition of Yuki Kihara’s artworks first presented at the 59th Venice Biennale, was curated by Natalie King with Ioana Gordon-Smith, assistant Pasifika curator.
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Writer’s Diary: Experimenter Curators’ Hub 2023
Inside the 13th edition of Experimenter, a platform for developing and sustaining discourse on curatorial practice and exhibition-making through critical discussion and debate
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Kathmandu Triennale 2026 Names Artistic Directors
Nepal’s Sujan Chitrakar and Australia’s Natalie King will lead the exhibition, which explores the theme of coexistence.
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Experimenter Curator’s Hub
The 13th edition of the Experimenter Curators’ Hub in Kolkata, India, marks the convergence of curators from across the globe who, through their distinctive curatorial practices, are committed to making a profound difference by responding to momentous shifts in contemporary practice.
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Artistic Directors Sujan Chitrakar and Natalie King
Siddhartha Arts Foundation and Kathmandu Triennale are pleased to announce the appointment of Sujan Chitrakar and Natalie King as Artistic Directors of Kathmandu Triennale in February 2026.
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Paradise Camp at the Aotearoa/New Zealand Pavilion of the 59th Venice Biennale
Paradise Camp, an immersive exhibition of Yuki Kihara’s artworks first presented at the 59th Venice Biennale, was curated by Natalie King with Ioana Gordon-Smith, assistant Pasifika curator.
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Congress lineup
Natalie King (AICA Australia) – Who cares? Creating, curating, criticism and care
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The Shell Seeker
For the past four months, Quandamooka artist Megan Cope has been ensconced in the Marrickville Addison Road Community Organisation in Sydney’s inner west with a dedicated team collectively preparing for her new commission, Whispers, at the Sydney Opera House.
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IN THE WAY OF A WOMAN
The multi-disciplinary works of Yuki Kihara combine universal narratives with the authority and authenticity of the local, as she engages with the politics of identity, decolonisation
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Cristina Baldacci + Francesca Tarocco
In this two-part seminar, Baldacci and Tarocco will discuss the impact of climate change, environmental collapse and human-animal relations from the perspective of
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Bazaar Muse
Natalie King OAM is one of Australia’s foremost curators, who has spent her three-decade career cultivating lifelong relationships with artists. She recently pulled of a rare feat: curating her second Venice Biennale.
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Paradise Camp on MindFOOD
Trailblazing artist Yuki Kihara explores the diasporic experience of fa’afafine in her latest work.
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Enough: Artists and writers on gendered violence
CoVA x Perimeter is a collaborative publishing initiative curated by the Centre of Visual Art at the University of Melbourne
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Talanoa Forum: Moana Rising
First presented at the 59th Venice Biennale, the Talanoa Forum extends the themes of the Paradise Camp exhibition by bringing together 24 artists
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Why I Travel
From Samoa to Lapland, the international curator explores the world through the lens of contemporary art.
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Must-See Exhibitions During Sydney Contemporary and Beyond
Expect: theatrical images that complicate Paul Gauguin’s interpretations of the Pacific and its peoples with a contemporary imaging of cultural awareness and inclusive difference.
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Australia-Indonesia in conversation
The Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIPOL) at Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in partnership with The Faculty of Arts at The University of Melbourne, will host the third mini-conference in the Australia-Indonesia
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Mithu Sen on Art, Poetry, and Lingual Anarchy
I met artist Mithu Sen in New Delhi during India Art Fair in 2011, when she was awarded the inaugural Skoda Prize for Indian contemporary art for ‘Black Candy
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The Art of Publishing
Art Ink present an in-conversation between established artists, designers and thought leaders in the industry.
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Floor Talk with Natalie King OAM
Natalie King OAM has known artist Mithu Sen since 2011 when she won the prestigious Skoda Prize at the Delhi Art Fair.
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An Irresistible Impulse
I first became aware of Nasim Nasr’s work in Adelaide when researching the 2014 TarraWarra Bienial: Whisper in my Mask, co-curated with Djon Mundine.