A Sunday Talk with Chequita Nahar

Events — Nov 12, 2023

An afternoon, live and via livestream, that will be structured around themes connected to the work of artist Chequita Nahar who will receive the Françoise van den Bosch Award for her contribution to the field of contemporary jewelry and design.

Price: Entrance ticket + €3, – supplement
Location: Teijin Auditorium & Zadelhoff Café
Time: Nov 12, 2023, 2 pm until 6 pm
Main language: English
Admission: Tickets

On the occasion of the Françoise van den Bosch Award, this event will explore topics such as diaspora, migration, encounters, belonging, adornment and craft. With Namita Gupta Wiggers, Kerstin Pinther, artist Chequita Nahar (winner Françoise van den Bosch-award) in conversation with Stedelijk Museum curator Amanda Pinatih.

photo of work by Chequita Nahar — Chequita Nahar, 'Wasi Sani', 2022. Photo: Gert-Jan van Rooij

Program

2 pm: Start of the program
4.15 pm: Award ceremony with winner Chequita Nahar
4.35 pm: Drinks at the Zadelhoff Café
5.30 pm: End of program

About the speakers

NAMITA GUPTA WIGGERS

Namita Gupta Wiggers is an artist, curator, educator, and writer based in Portland, Oregon (USA). She is the founding director of the MA in Craft Studies, a low-residency program focused on critical theory and craft history at Warren Wilson College (2017-2023). Wiggers is the director and co-founder of Critical Craft Forum, an online and onsite platform for exchange. From 2004–14, she served as the director and chief curator (2012-14), and curator (2004-12), Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon. She contributes to journals and books, lectures, panels, and workshops across the US and internationally.

KERSTIN PINTHER

Kerstin Pinther is professor for African Art History. Currently she is curator for modern and contemporary art in a global context at the Staatliche Museen Berlin. Research focuses on contemporary art, architecture, urbanism and design in Africa and its diaspora. She has written and co-edited several publications such as "New Spaces for Negotiating Art (and) Histories in Africa" (2015) and "Flow of Forms / Forms of Flow, Design Histories Between Africa and Europe" (2018). As a curator, she organized the exhibition "Afropolis. City, Media, Art" (2010-2012) as well as "Flow of Forms" (2017-2019).

CHEQUITA NAHAR

Chequita Nahar is a jewelry designer, tutor and curator, and recipient of the Françoise van den Bosch award 2022. Nahar has been steadily working on a body of work that is informed by her bicultural background - growing up in two cultures, Suriname and the Netherlands - and reflects on a fusion of influences. She is an important voice in the contemporary jewelry field through her engagement in the field as a passionate educator (Head of program Fine Art and Design, Maastricht Institute of Arts) and curator (Schmuck, 2020).

AMANDA PINATIH

Amanda Pinatih (1987) is Design Curator at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Here she provides the vast design collection with new perspectives. Simultaneously she is a PhD candidate at the VU Amsterdam and co-founder of the Design Museum Dharavi in Mumbai (IN). Pinatih is member of the supervisory board of The Young Collectors Circle

BRITNEY LINDO

Britney Lindo writes about social issues and how she personally relates to them. Emotion is central to her work and she passionately conveys this to her audience

XINYAO DING

Student MA Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Belgium.

VANESSA DE GRUIJTER

Vanessa de Gruijter is an independent curator in the broad field of design with a focus on adornment. Recently, she was curator of contemporary jewelry at CODA Museum, the Netherlands (2019-2020). She is exhibition curator at Wereldmuseum, guest teacher and chair of the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation.