Curating with Care

About

Elke Krasny is Professor of Art and Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is a feminist cultural theorist urban researcher curator and author. Krasnys scholarship addresses care ecological and social justice memory work and emancipatory cultural practice at the present historical conjuncture marked by ecocidal and genocidal pasts. Her exhibition Hands-On Urbanism: The Right to Green on urban gardening and farming as subsistence practices was included in the 2012 Venice Biennale of Architecture. The exhibition Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet curated with Angelika Fitz at the Architecture Centre Vienna in 2019 introduces a perspective of planetary care ethics through architectural practice. Krasny co-edited Curating as Feminist Organizing (Routledge 2023).Lara Perry works in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Brighton. Trained first as a historian Laras career has involved her in work with artists curators photographers educators computer scientists philosophers archivists activists and art historians. Much of her research has focused on evolving feminist museology starting with her doctoral thesis on the collection of the National Portrait Gallery (London) published as Historys Beauties: Women History and the National Portrait Gallery 18561900 in 2006. Lara has published a number of essays and edited volumes concerning art history's and curating's relationship to gender and feminism most recently an edited volume with Elke Krasny Curating as Feminist Organizing (Routledge 2023).