1.10.2026

10.00–11.30 am

Art worker, curator and producer Micol Curatolo

On the politics of space and participation in independent curatorial work.

Join Micol Curatolo in a conversation on “how can independent curatorial practices support the capacity of a community to access artistic work, learn from artistic work, gather and organise around it?”

Micol Curatolo is an artworker and curator based in Helsinki. Her practice explores the politics of space, labour, and learning, with a focus on feminist and antiracist work. ‘SLOW — Seasonal Laboratories for Other Worlds’ is her independent curatorial project that explores artistic research as a place for trans-local learning by hosting collaborative work in the exhibitions’ design and activation. The programme draws connections between bodies, geographies, and economies by bringing international artistic practices, local actors and grass-root projects together at work, responding to struggles that might appear across places. Her research explores how art can help us navigate the (global) politics of space, and learn to imagine, relate, and organise otherwise.

Micol is the Chair of The Curators Association Finland and the Vice Chair of Arte ry, the artists organisation running Titanik gallery in Turku, Finland. In 2025, she developed a practice-based research on ‘Border politics in contemporary curatorial practice’ and initiated the project ‘SLOW – Seasonal Laboratories for Other Worlds’ in collaboration with the Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki. Between 2022 and 2025, she worked as the coordinator of the educational program of PUBLICS, Helsinki. She holds a bachelors in History of Art at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK, 2021) and a masters in Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art at Aalto University (Espoo, Finland, 2024). She is a participant of CuratorLab 2026-2027 in Konstfack University (Stockholm, Sweden). In 2026, her work is supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

W: https://www.micolcuratolo.com/

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