THE MIXER Keynote by Catherine Wood

In a special programme, Catherine Wood (Director of Programme at Tate Modern) will respond to questions and topics concerning the challenges and opportunities faced in contemporary art as posed by participants of the Netherlands' renowned post-academic art programmes. This keynote lecture and Q&A session is part of The Mixer, a festive collaboration initiated by Kunstinstituut Melly in partnership with different institutes and local partners.

Catherine Wood

Catherine Wood joined Tate Modern in 2002, having previously held curatorial roles at the Barbican Art Gallery and The British Museum. Over the last 20 years, she has been instrumental in making performance and live art a core driver of Tate Modern’s programme, becoming Senior Curator, International Art (Performance) in 2015. She has worked closely with artists such as Joan Jonas, Tarek Atoui, Fujiko Nakaya, Mark Leckey, Anne Imhof, Carlos Amorales and Otobong Nkanga among many others, and has curated and co-curated major exhibitions such as The World as a Stage in 2007, Pop Life: Art in a Material World in 2009, A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance in 2012 and Robert Rauschenberg in 2016. She has curated commissions by Tania Bruguera and Cecilia Vicuna for the Turbine Hall. Outside of Tate she curated shows including Yvonne Rainer: Dance Works at Raven Row in 2014, and Pablo Bronstein: Carousel Crystal at OGR Torino in 2018.

In recent years she led on the BMW Tate Live Exhibition series in the Tanks and played a key role in the Uniqlo Tate Play programme which launched last year. She has also been a pioneer of curating for online audiences, initiating Tate’s first live-streamed performance programme – Performance Room - in 2012, and has played a key role in bringing live, time-based works of art into Tate’s collection, including Trisha Brown’s Set Reset and Lee Mingwei’s Our Labyrinth, both of which were staged at Tate Modern last year. Wood writes regularly on art for journals and publications and has published two books, Yvonne Rainer: The Mind is a Muscle (Afterall/MIT 2007) and Performance in Contemporary Art (Tate publishing, 2018/2021). She is a trustee of the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne.

THE MIXER

The Mixer is a festive collaboration in partnership with de Ateliers, the Jan van Eyck Academie, the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst as well as with local partners Art Rotterdam and Het Nieuwe Instituut. The Mixer is an initiative by Kunstinstituut Melly.