Konstfack research seminar: Curating and performativity with Joel Valabrega
Seminar
Date and time
25 November 2025 at 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Place and route
S1
Konstfack, LM Ericssons väg 14, Stockholm (Look at a map)
Underground station: Telefonplan
This seminar will observe curatorial practices related to performativity, understanding time and choreographic thinking as systems of production and presentation. Observing some of her projects, Joel Valabrega will talk about different tipologies of exhibitional situations.
Joel Valabrega is a curator based in Porto and Milan. In 2024, she curated the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 60th International Venice Biennale and the Present Future section of Artissima Art Fair (Nov 2024). From 2020 to 2024, she was Curator of Performance and Moving Image at Mudam—Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg, and in 2025, she became Head of Programme / Curator at Galeria Municipal do Porto.
Recent projects include the performance festival Fogo Fátuo (2025), the experimental exhibition Workers in Song by Billy Bultheel & James Richards (2024), the performative group exhibition After Laughter Comes Tears (2023), and the performance festival The Illusion of the End (2022).
From 2016 to 2022, Valabrega ran the project space MEGA in Milan and has held curatorial roles at institutions such as V-A-C Foundation in Moscow and Venice (2018–19) and Triennale Milano (2020).