Natelie King - Curator


  • 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life

    ‘Poems are like sentences that have taken their clothes off.’ Marlene Dumas’ poetic and sensual refrain accompanies her figurative watercolours

  • New Photography Award 2019

    Since 2005 the Ballarat International Foto Biennale has been a force in the promotion of Australian and international photography. A two month-long festival event that immerses the historic…

  • 11th Taipei Biennial: ‘creativity and crises’

    Stealthily installed in the basement of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum as part of Post Nature—A Museum as an Ecosystem, the 11th Taipei Biennial co-curated by Mali Wu and Francesco Manacorda…

  • The Best Public Art of 2018

    For the third year running, the art-and-design studio and foundry UAP has compiled a list of the most compelling public artworks…

  • Curating a life

    This year, curator and writer Professor Natalie King was recognised by the Australian Financial Review as part of their 100 Women of Influence awards for her contribution to Arts…

  • 2018 Conference – AAANZ

    RMIT University School of Art will host the 2018 AAANZ conference in December 2018 to open critical dialogue on the histories of art by examining the social contexts of aesthetics and…

  • Vincent Namatjira in Conversation | Ocula

    Vincent Namatjira relishes painting famous people who are humorously redeployed across vivid canvases and depicted in his community in remote Indulkana in South Australia. His powerful…

  • 2018 AICA International Congress Taiwan

    This year’s AICA Congress theme is “Art Criticism in the age of Virtuality and Democracy”, and it addresses key issues concerning the role of art criticism in an age increasingly defined by …

  • The Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence 2018

    A leading figure in the Australian #MeToo movement, the founder of a blockchain energy trading start-up and an expert in artificial intelligence and customer experience were among…

  • MTalks Creative collaboration and collectivity in the Asia Pacific region

    Following on from the opening of The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (Brisbane), join curator Professor Natalie King in conversation with regional luminaries including Elia Nurvista…

  • The Global Couch 2018 – Art Collector

    In issue 86 of Art Collector, we interviewed key international players about where Australian and New Zealand art is at on the world stage. Read the full interview transcript below.

  • In Conversation: Jumaldi Alfi and Ugo Untoro

    Jumaldi Alfi and Ugo Untoro are leading Indonesian artists and members of a dynamic art community based in the central Javanese city of Yogyakarta. Join the artists for a conversation about their work…

  • Val Wens – Banyuwangi

    Juggling precariously before a sulphuric, acrid Javanese landscape or a remote and ancient forest, Indonesian/Australian artist Val Wens performs a sequence of balancing actions: a potent metaphor…

  • AFR 100 Women of Influence

    The Australian Financial Review’s Women of Influence program is committed to increasing the visibility of women’s leadership in Australia, highlighting the important contribution women make in creating a bold and…

  • The Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence 2018 revealed

    Standing in front of Parliament House in Canberra in 2015, Australian of the Year Rosie Batty dedicated her award to her son Luke, killed by his father in a violent incident the year…

  • Polixeni Papapetrou 1960–2018

    Polixeni Papapetrou was immeasurably creative, remarkably indefatigable and unstintingly focused on her photographic practice. Poli skilfully melded her family life with her artistic output…

  • Talks : Performing the Curatorial

    Performing the Curatorial focuses on the shifting role of the curator, across both private and public space, and poses a series of questions…

  • Talks : Alia Swastika

    Jakarta-based curator, writer, and Director of the Jogja Biennale 2015, Alia Swastika in conversation with Professor Natalie King, Enterprise Professorial Fellow…

  • 4A Symposium: This Is How We Do It

    4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and the University of Melbourne invite you to join us for 4A’s 2018 symposium…

  • NS Harsha and Tiffany Chung in Conversation

    On the occasion of the 21st Biennale of Sydney, SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium & Engagement (16 March–11 June 2018), the Victorian College…

  • BalletLab McMahon Contemporary Art Award Exhibition

    Established in 2016, the $12,000 invitation-only BMCAA is awarded annually to a contemporary artist who demonstrates a commitment to brave, innovative and transitional practice that contests…

  • Visionary Women – Harper’s Bazaar

    With more than 20 years’ experience in international contemporary art, King has unrivalled expertise when it comes to the cultural sector.

  • CIAF Art Awards 2018 | Cairns Indigenous Art Fair

    The annual CIAF Art Awards will be awarded at CIAF 2018 Opening Night on Thursday 12th July from 6.30pm.

  • Melbourne Art Week | Melbourne Art Fair

    Melbourne Art Foundation has joined with over 50 Victorian cultural organisations, institutions, art spaces, satellite fairs and galleries to stage Melbourne Art Week…

  • My Horizon, Tracey Moffatt

    Somewhere between fiction and history, the work of Tracey Moffatt is redolent with imaginative narratives. Working across photography, film and video, Moffatt takes…

  • Patricia Piccinini in Conversation | Ocula

    On the occasion of Patricia Piccinini’s multisensory and epic retrospective, Curious Affection at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA, 24 March–5 August 2018)…

  • Curator Natalie King on her new role as Enterprise Professor at the VCA

    Natalie King curates Australian and international programs that include exhibition making, publications, lectures, workshops and cultural partnerships across contemporary art and Indigenous culture.

  • Crossing Borders

    Ai Wei Wei’s epic and harrowing documentary Human Flow (2017) exposes the staggering scale of the refugee crisis with displaced people comprising …

  • Polixeni Papapetrou: MY HEART – still full of her

    In 1833 the younger poet and dandy Alfred de Musset met the novelist George Sand and both fall passionately in love. On seeing Sand…

  • If I Could Have

    Curator for the 57th Venice Biennale 2017 Natalie King selects 10 artworks from gallery stockrooms that she would purchase tomorrow if she could.