Program
OCTOBER 18, 2023
09:00 am
Opening of REBOOT by Representative of Phillips and Joana Vasconcelos Foundation
09:15 am
Critic Condition
Sacha Craddock – AICA UK
Rui Cepeda – AICA UK
10:05 am
Foundations: Support for artistic creation, training of new audiences and education
Celine Vogt – Michelangelo Foundation
Clare Lilley – Yorkshire Sculpture Park
EdoardoTomassini – Rothschild Foundation
Nicky Wilson – Jupiter Artland Foundation
Moderator: Iole Pellion di Persano- Recontemporary
10:50 am
Coffee Break
11:10 am
The critic as an instrument of public empowerment
Keynote speaker: Bernard Blistène - Mondes nouveaux
12:05 am
The beauty of everyday things
Joana Vasconcelos – Unidade Infinita
Jaques Pajot – Atelier Novembre
13:00 pm
Closing and Conclusions by the Curator D. André de Quiroga
REBOOT
REBOOT was born from a shared interest between curator D. André de Quiroga, consultant Filomena Marques and artist Joana Vasconcelos in shaping Lisbon as an important cultural hub. REBOOT: Artistic Sustainability – Beyond Green was launched in 2021 in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic. It had become urgent to question our way of life and define a sustainable path for the future that should prioritize the planet and its population; where creativity and art should play a crucial role in redefining integrated and holistic strategies.
REBOOT 2022 - PARIS
The second edition took place at Paris’ Le Carreau du Temple, focusing on the history and the future of museums while exploring the relationship between art and gastronomy, featuring the contributions of Demetrio Paparoni, Celine Vogt, and Pierre Hermé.
REBOOT 2021 - LISBOA
The conference of the first edition was broadcast live from Atelier Joana Vasconcelos to thousands of viewers and featured contributions from MUCEM’s then-director Jean François Chougnet, Julius Baer Foundation’s director Oliver Schickler and contemporary artist Ai Weiwei.
The Speakers
OCTOBER 18, 2023
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Joana Vasconcelos
Born in 1971 is a contemporary visual artist renowned for her monumental sculptures, whose 25 years practise stretches to film and drawing. She updates the arts & crafts concept to the 21st century and incorporates everyday objects with irony and humour, creating a bridge between domestic environment and public space while questioning the status of women, consumerism society and collective identity.
International acclaim came at the first Venice Biennale ever curated by women with The Bride in 2005, followed by Trafaria Praia, the first floating pavilion in the biennale representing Portugal in 2013. The youngest artist and the only woman ever at Palace of Versailles, to a record breaking 1.6 million visitors, her 2012 exhibition was the most visited in France in 50 years.
D.André de Quiroga
Bibliophile, gastronome and contemporary art collector is a former periodist, converted to political and business communication and an accidental curator. He has worked with artists such as Tatsumi Orimoto, Carlito Carvalhosa, Barthelemy Toguo, Mónica Bengoa, Eugenio Ampudia, Miki Leal, Per Barclay, Ricardo Calero, Pierre Gonnord and Cristina Lucas. In the last decade, he was co-curator of the exhibition Políptico, of PHoto España 2012 and director of the Trienal no Alentejo. Currently he is the programmer of REBOOT, an itinerant cycle of conferences of the Joana Vasconcelos Foundation..
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Celine Vogt
Head of Education at the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship in Geneva. In this capacity, she leads the development of education programmes and the expansion of the network of partners of the foundation consisting today of over 130 organisation throughout Europe and beyond. A strong believer in the importance of collaboration, Celine works hand-in-hand with partners to co-create projects and onboard them in the initiatives of the foundation. The Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship is a non-profit institution based in Geneva which champions contemporary craftspeople worldwide with the aim of promoting a more human, inclusive and sustainable future. It celebrates and preserves craftsmanship and its diversity by increasing craft’s recognition and its viability as a professional path for the next generations.
Bernard Blistène
Former director of Musée national d’art moderne - Centre Pompidou between 2013 and 2021, Bernard Blistène has been successively curator and deputy director at Centre Pompidou, director of the Marseilles'museums, head of visual arts at ministry of culture, director cultural department at Centre Pompidou.
He has been teaching at Ecole du Louvre during 25 years.
He is actually in charge as President of "Mondes nouveaux", a commission of 250 projects commissioned by Ministry of culture.
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Iole di Persano
Curator, since 2016 she has been the director and founder of Recontemporary, of which she has also been president of the cultural association since 2018. She studied Design and Visual Communication at the Politecnico di Torino and completed her studies at Sotheby's New York. She works as a consultant and art advisor for private collections and an art fund. Since 2019 she has become associate of the Giorgio Persano Gallery and follows its management for fairs and relations with foreign countries. Supporter of female entrepreneurship in 2021, she is co-founder of The Rown, an art, literature, fashion and design club.
Jacques Pajot
Full member of the French Academy of Architecture, graduate of Arts Décoratifs (Paris, France) in 1982 and member of the Order of Architects of France since 1983, Jacques Pajot founded the Atelier November agency with Marc Iseppi in 1989. His career reflects a vast scope of reflections on the creation of facilities for cultural, administrative and educational purposes, with a constant proximity between design and architecture.
This diversity is revealed in the statement of the French agency's outstanding achievements such as the CentQuatre in Paris, the media library in Chelles, the Inguimbertine library-museum in Carpentras, the Orsay departmental conservatory or, currently in progress, the Grand Paris Express stations. So many projects which illustrate, in a quest for balance and harmony, this sensitive search for links that a building must forge with its environment.
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Rui Cepeda
Rui Cepeda is an art and cultural entrepreneur by profession, an art critic by vocation, and a Punk-Gothic at heart. He has been working as a freelance art critic, curator, researcher, and as arts producer/cultural manager for more than two decades. He has obtained a Ph.D. in ‘Arts and Cultural Management’ from the University of Manchester, an MA in ‘Cultural Studies’ from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and a Bachelor's degree in ‘Arts and Events Management’. Rui’s expertise crosses the fields occupied by arts and cultural production and management, the market for and contemporary art theory, as well as social criticism and participation, and epicure. He is the founder of the cross-culture festival Trienal, a festival that brings together all those interests, and since 2013, he had led a program of online exhibitions.
Sacha Craddock
Sacha is co-founder of ArtSchool Palestine, member of Abbey Council, and co-founder of the Contemporary Art Award at the British School at Rome, Trustee of the Shelagh Cluett Trust, and President of AICA-UK, the British section of International Association of Art Critics. She was Chair of the Board of New Contemporaries and selection process from 1996 until December 2021. After completing a degree in fine art painting at Central Saint Martins, and a postgraduate painting degree at Chelsea School of Art, Craddock began writing art criticism for The Guardian newspaper in 1988. Sacha has judged art prizes, including the Turner Prize in 1999 and the John Moores Painting Prize in 2008.
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Nicky Wilson
Born in Edinburgh, attended Camberwell College of Art receiving BA Hons in Sculpture and a MA in Sculpture at Chelsea School of Art. After art college continued her career as an artist, awarded a British School at Rome Sculpture Scholarship. In 2001 stepped away from the studio and began to grow a collection of contemporary art, founding Jupiter Artland in 2009. It’s now an award-winning contemporary sculpture garden located just outside Edinburgh, by Robert and Nicky Wilson, and has grown into one of Scotland’s most significant arts organisations, with an international reputation for innovation and creativity. Set over 100 acres of meadow, woodland and indoor gallery spaces, Jupiter Artland is home to over 30 permanent and unique site-specific sculptures from artists Phyllida Barlow, Christian Boltanski, Charles Jencks, Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley, as well as a seasonal programme of carefully curated exhibitions and events from a plethora of artists, both emerging and established.
Claire Lilley
Director of Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is a british curator with extensive experience of operating in the UK and internationally, with proven success in creative programming. As a director she collaborates with colleagues and the Board of YSP, playing a significant strategic role. She has responsibility for the YSP collection and programme, learning and audience engagement. Played a leading role in the development of new galleries, award-winning visitor centres and learning buildings, a five-fold increase in stewardship of more than 500 acres of historic landscape and a seven-fold increase in staff. She has driven an innovative programme of modern and contemporary art incorporating diverse media and philosophies and the transformation in approaches to advocacy, marketing and communications.
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Maura Marvão
Has a Law degree from Universidade Católica Portuguesa and a Master in Arts Administration from New York University. Worked at the United Nations and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Is the representative in Portugal and Spain of Phillips Auction House. Coordinates a postgraduate course in Markets and Art Collections at Escola das Artes - UCP. Is a member of the Advisory Board of Escola das Artes - Universidade Católica Portuguesa, a member of the Board of Directors of the Youth Foundation with responsibility for culture, and a founder of the Portuguese Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington.”
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