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Galleries are closed today. Our exhibitions are always free.

Annika Kristensen, Hannah Mathews

International Women’s Day Curator Talks ‘Oui Move in You’ and ‘In Her Footsteps’

International Women’s Day Curator Talks 'Oui Move in You' and 'In Her Footsteps'

Join us at PICA this International Women’s Day for a special morning tea and curator-led tours of two exhibitions: Oui Move In You by Turner Prize-winning artist Laure Prouvost and In Her Footsteps: A Tribute to Matrilineal Legacy, a group exhibition honouring the influence of women across generations. 

Laure Prouvost’s Oui Move In You is a major solo exhibition inspired by radical, experimental and pathfinding figures of the past. Through a poetic and playful lens, Prouvost explores the roles and legacies of grandmothers, both real and symbolic, alongside themes of maternal spaces, intergenerational relationships and transformation. 

These ideas flow into In Her Footsteps: A Tribute to Matrilineal Legacy, where seven Australian artists pay homage to the women who have shaped their lives – grandmothers, mothers, artistic matriarchs, leaders, ancestors and forebears. 

Delve deeper into these themes with guest curator Annika Kristensen, who will introduce Oui Move In You, followed by PICA Director/CEO Hannah Mathews, who will lead a tour of In Her Footsteps… 

Celebrate the legacies of women past and present with us at PICA this International Women’s Day. 

Schedule: 

12.00-12.30pm: Curator Talk: Oui Move In You 
12.30-1.00pm: Curator Tour: In Her Footsteps 

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About the curators

Annika Kristensen is a curator with a particular interest in commissioning new work by contemporary artists, art in the public domain and broadening audiences for the arts. Most recently in the position of Visual Arts Curator at Perth Festival (2023-2024), Kristensen was previously Senior Curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in Melbourne, where she worked with major international and Australian artists to commission new work. Kristensen was Exhibition and Project Coordinator for the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014) and the inaugural Nick Waterlow OAM Curatorial Fellow for the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012). She has also held positions at Frieze Art Fair, Artangel, Film and Video Umbrella, London and The West Australian newspaper, Perth. Kristensen holds an MSc In Art History, Theory and Display from the University of Edinburgh, following undergraduate studies in Arts (Communication Studies) at the University of Western Australia.  

Hannah Mathews is the Director/CEO of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA). Over the last twenty years, she has held key curatorial positions at Monash University Museum of Art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Next Wave, The South Project and Biennale of Sydney. Hannah graduated with a Master of Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne in 2002 and has completed curatorial residencies in New York, Berlin, Tokyo and Venice. She has taught in curatorial programs at Melbourne University, Monash University and RMIT University, Melbourne and has held various board positions, including National Association for the Visual Arts, City of Melbourne Arts & Culture and International Art Space, Perth. Her publication, To Note: Notation Across Disciplines won the inaugural Cornish Family Book Prize for Art and Design Publishing in 2018.  

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