Nav Haq’s presentation focuses on examples of three research-based exhibitions he has made, each of which provide reflections on notions of equality, selfhood and co-existence. These exhibitions: Don’t You Know Who I Am? Art After Identity Politics (2014), the 9th Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art titled On Secularity (2017), and MONOCULTURE – A Recent History (2020), are examples of research projects that took place at the meeting point of theory and practice. He will give insights into his focus on post-identity liberalisms. More broadly Haq will discuss the necessity, and ability, of artistic and institutional imagination to create alternative socio-cultural liberalisms in the context of our coexistence.
Nav Haq is a curator and writer based in Antwerp. Haq is presently Associate Director at M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp – where he is responsible for the artistic programme. He is also an editor at Afterall journal. His practice focuses on contemporary questions of equality, as well as forms for progressive internationalism in the 21st century, particularly in the context of Eurasian multipolarity, and how to embed them within artist-centred institutional and curatorial reflection. He previously held curatorial positions at Arnolfini, Bristol, and Gasworks, London, and has organised many solo exhibitions with artists including Otobong Nkanga, Shilpa Gupta, Haegue Yang and Imogen Stidworthy, as well as significant overviews of work by Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, Joseph Beuys and Laure Prouvost. At M HKA he co-curated the group exhibition Don’t You Know Who I Am? Art After Identity Politics (2014), Energy Flash – The Rave Movement (2016), and MONOCULTURE – A Recent History (2020). With Pascal Gielen he edited the book The Aesthetics of Ambiguity – Understanding and Addressing Monoculture (Valiz, 2021). In 2012, he was recipient of the Independent Vision Award for Curatorial Achievement, awarded by Independent Curators International, New York.
Nav Haq’s presentation focuses on examples of three research-based exhibitions he has made, each of which provide reflections on notions of equality, selfhood and co-existence. These exhibitions: Don’t You Know Who I Am? Art After Identity Politics (2014), the 9th Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art titled On Secularity (2017), and MONOCULTURE – A Recent History (2020), are examples of research projects that took place at the meeting point of theory and practice. He will give insights into his focus on post-identity liberalisms. More broadly Haq will discuss the necessity, and ability, of artistic and institutional imagination to create alternative socio-cultural liberalisms in the context of our coexistence.
Nav Haq is a curator and writer based in Antwerp. Haq is presently Associate Director at M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp – where he is responsible for the artistic programme. He is also an editor at Afterall journal. His practice focuses on contemporary questions of equality, as well as forms for progressive internationalism in the 21st century, particularly in the context of Eurasian multipolarity, and how to embed them within artist-centred institutional and curatorial reflection. He previously held curatorial positions at Arnolfini, Bristol, and Gasworks, London, and has organised many solo exhibitions with artists including Otobong Nkanga, Shilpa Gupta, Haegue Yang and Imogen Stidworthy, as well as significant overviews of work by Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, Joseph Beuys and Laure Prouvost. At M HKA he co-curated the group exhibition Don’t You Know Who I Am? Art After Identity Politics (2014), Energy Flash – The Rave Movement (2016), and MONOCULTURE – A Recent History (2020). With Pascal Gielen he edited the book The Aesthetics of Ambiguity – Understanding and Addressing Monoculture (Valiz, 2021). In 2012, he was recipient of the Independent Vision Award for Curatorial Achievement, awarded by Independent Curators International, New York.
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