BIOGRAPHY

Lauren Reid is a cultural professional working across exhibition-making, anthropology and film. She is Co-Director of insitu collective, Lecturer in Curatorial Practice at Node Centre for Curatorial Studies, Co-Founder of the Project Space Festival Berlin and a PhD Candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universität, Berlin with the project Thinking Beyond the Final Frontier: Cosmic Futures in Thailand.

Reid’s research results in exhibitions, writing and moving images that combine cultural artefacts, documentary sources, field recordings, artworks and artistic references. In her curatorial practice, she creates immersive experiences that activate all the senses - touch, sound, sight, smell and even taste - as a method to bring audiences inside the world of a topic, be it outer space, a future nuclear waste repository, or a fictional character.

Research interests

outer space, anthropocene, spirituality, animism, human futures, PSI experiences, film-as-exhibition/exhibition-as-film, curating

CONTACT

lauren@lauren-reid.com

ABRIDGED CV

Education

2007

Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney

2001-06

Bachelor of Arts (Visual) / Arts, Australian National University, Canberra

Selected curatorial projects

2019

I dreamed I was a house Casino, Luxembourg, LU co-curated with Marie Graftieaux, Nora Mayr and Gilles Neiens as insitu collective

2018

Beyond the Final Frontier Subhashok the Arts Centre, Bangkok, TH

2017

Corridor III: Valdemar Daa Viborg Kunsthal, DK co-curated with Marie Graftieaux, Nora Mayr and Gilles Neiens as insitu collective

2017

Corridor II: Pachamama insitu, Berlin, DE co-curated with Marie Graftieaux, Nora Mayr and Gilles Neiens as insitu collective

2016

Thinking like a forest screening evening for Elsa Salonen’s solo exhibition Guided by the Stars of the Southern Hemisphere, Acud Macht Neu, Berlin, DE

2016

The Overflow Untitled for Film, Chiang Mai University, TH

2016

Corridor I: Onkalo insitu, Berlin, DE co-curated with Marie Graftieaux, Nora Mayr and Gilles Neiens as insitu collective

2016

Charles insitu, Berlin, DE co-curated with Marie Graftieaux, Nora Mayr and Gilles Neiens as insitu collective

2016

Madeleine insitu, Berlin, DE co-curated with Marie Graftieaux, Nora Mayr and Gilles Neiens as insitu collective

2015

Jonny insitu, Berlin, DE co-curated with Marie Graftieaux, Nora Mayr and Gilles Neiens as insitu collective

2015

Vic insitu, Berlin, DE co-curated with Marie Graftieaux, Nora Mayr and Gilles Neiens as insitu collective

2015

Framework 6: parallelisms insitu, Berlin, DE co-curated with Marie Graftieaux, Nora Mayr and Gilles Neiens as insitu collective

2015

O.K. The Musical (Dress Rehearsals) KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE co-produced with Marie Graftieaux and Nora Mayr as insitu collective

2015

Framework 5: O.K. The Musical (Pre-Production) insitu, Berlin, DE co-curated with Marie Graftieaux and Nora Mayr as insitu collective

2014

Haunted Thresholds: Spirituality in Contemporary Southeast Asia, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, DE

2014

A Brief History of Memory IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, RU

2014

Spectral Reverberations, Light & Wire Gallery, online formerly at lightandwiregallery.com/

2014

Framework 3: meet your idol insitu, Berlin, DE co-curated with Marie Graftieaux and Nora Mayr as insitu collective

2014

Project Space Festival: Magic Tricks insitu, Berlin, DE co-curated with Marie Graftieaux and Nora Mayr as insitu collective

2014

Framework 2: feel at home insitu, Berlin, DE co-curated with Marie Graftieaux and Nora Mayr as insitu collective

2014

Framework 1: extrasensory bonds insitu, Berlin, DE co-curated with Marie Graftieaux and Nora Mayr as insitu collective

2014

Prologue: relationships, networks and connections insitu, Berlin, DE co-curated with Marie Graftieaux and Nora Mayr as insitu collective

2013

Untitled Prophecies, Node Center, Berlin, DE with Perla Montelongo (ongoing)

2013

As Everything Moves Meinblau e.V. Berlin, DE mentor to Node Center Autumn Resident Curators

2013

Dysraphic City Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, DE mentor to Node Center Summer Resident Curators

2013

FAIL! Node Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin, DE mentor to Node Center Spring Resident Curators

2012

Blows to the Temple Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE mentor to Node Center Winter Resident Curator

2012

Letters from the field Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE mentor to Node Center Summer Resident Curators

2012

p.s. João Cocteau, Berlin

2012

Out of the black, REH Kunst, Berlin

2012

The Doors of Perception: Cinema Cycle Altes Finanzamt, Berlin, DE co-curated with Lorenzo Sandoval

2012

Nuno Vicente, Sculptures made of earth, fire, water, air (part I) João Cocteau, Berlin, DE

2011

Material Conversion Grimmuseum, Berlin, DE co-curated with Maria Lanko and Wyatt Niehaus

2011

Grantpirrie Gallery Window Grantpirrie Gallery, Sydney, AU

2010

The Garden of Forking Paths Grantpirrie Gallery, Sydney, AU co-curated with Tony Stephens

Talks & teaching

2019

Futures Beyond Earth: Apocalyptic Thinking of Thai Astronomers and Extraterrestrial Believers talk at ‘The Moon as a ‘contact zone’ to other worlds: an interdisciplinary workshop’, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

2019

Conceptualising Exhibitions series of workshops, lectures and portfolio reviews at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, LT

2018

Beyond the Final Frontier presentation and panelist at the International SETI conference by Indonesian Space Science Society, Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, ID

2018

Imagining Our Futures in Outer Space workshop at HONF Lab as part of at International SETI conference by Indonesian Space Science Society, Yogyakarta, ID

2018

Imagining Our Futures in Outer Space workhop at S.A.C. Art Lab and Residency, Chiang Mai, TH

2017

The Next Big Thing: Futures of Exhibitions workshop at European Cultural Academy, Venice, IT

2017

Introduction to Curating: Developing Concepts workshop at Paratissima Skopje, Skopje, MK

2016 - ongoing

Key Moments in the History of Curating online course at Node Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin, DE

2015

Creative Writing in Three-Dimensions - Can an exhibition be a story? workshop at Silpakorn University, Bangkok, TH

2015

Curator talks: Sharing Curatorial Practice talk with Nora Mayr as insitu collective as part of Aarhus Art Weekend, Aarhus, DK

2014 - ongoing

Expanding Exhibitions: innovative approaches to exhibition-making online course at Node Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin, DE

2014

Haunted Thresholds and an introduction to interdisciplinary curating lecutre at Institut für Ethnologie, Georg-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, DE

2014

Synaesthesia and the Unseen talk with Rebecca Partridge, Friends with Books Art Book Fair Berlin, Café Moskau, Berlin, DE

2014

The independent art scene in Berlin talk with Marie Graftieaux, Nora Mayr, insitu, Berlin for MFA Studio Berlin, College of Arts and Science, American University, Washington DC

2013

Professional Presentation for Artists and Curators workshop at Node Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin, DE

Texts & publications

2018

The Secret Life of Objects: Strategies for Telling New Stories in Exhibitions, Allegra Lab, http://allegralaboratory.net

2018

Taiki Sakpisit: Until The Morning Comes, text for the eponymous exhibition, Subhashok The Arts Centre, Bangkok

2014

Lauren Reid, Karin Klenke, Andrea Lauser (Eds.) Haunted Thresholds: Spirituality in Contemporary Southeast Asia, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

2014

Exhibition text for Never Forever by Jai McKenzie, Artistic Bokeh, Vienna

2014

'Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing' for Unconditional Belief, artist book created and edited by Art Labor

2014

'Scaling the Sublime' for exhibition A Planetary Order, curated by Rebecca Partridge, Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin (artists: Martin John Callanan, Rebecca Partridge, Katie Paterson)

2013

'What is the future of art?' IS IT ART OR IS IT JUST? #trendbook s/s 2014 New: Art Center, Rotterdam (written with Perla Montelongo under collaborative project: ‘Untitled Prophecies’)

2013

'Peel Slowly and See: Popular music in the artistic practice of Song-Ming Ang' ISSUE 2: Echo, The Poetics of Translation, ISSUE Art Journal, Singapore: LASALLE College of the Arts, August 2013

2012

'Truth to Materials: Arlo Mountford' for exhibition: The social life of things, curated by Alicia Renew, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

Press

La maison rêvée, Céline Coubray, Paperjam [online], 8/6/2019
Bienvenue chez eux!, Grégory Cimatti, Le Quotidien, 8/6/2019
Tablo, Josée Hanse, d’Lëtzebuerger Land, 7/6/2019
I dreamed I was a house, D’Zeitung vum Lëtzebuerger Vollek, 1/6/2019
I dreamed I was a house, City Magazine, Luxembourg, June 2019
GRUPPEUDSTILLING "CORRIDOR III: VALDEMAR DAA", I do art.dk [online], 23/8/2019
Magi i kunsten, Ole Bak Jakobsen, kunsten.nu [online] 8/8/2019
Contemporary art for everyone, Nicolai Lisberg, Scan Magazine, Issue 102, July 2017
Die 100,000 Jahre-Warnung: Atomare Gruppenausstellung bei insitu, taz, 10 - 16/11/2016
Einblick 647, interview for taz, 10 - 16/11/2016
February exhibitions: Six not to miss, Amanda Ribas Tugwell, Exberliner, February issue 2016
This Exhibition Explores Dementia Through Sensations, Will Furtado, Sleek Magazine [online] 02/02/16
Alles zerbricht: die Schau Madeleine im Projektraum insitu umkreist das Thema Demenz, Tip Issue 04/2016 11 - 24 February
A girl called Jonny, Amanda Ribas Tugwell, Exberliner, December issue and online 16/12/15
Kennst du eigentlich schon Jonny? (Begegnung mit einem fiktiven-Charakter), Libertine Magazine, December 2015, pp. 82 - 85
A GIRL CALLED JONNY, Katy Shields, PETRIe [online] 07/12/15
'Jonny' - A Show Where Pleasure Is Your Guide, Sleek Magazine [online] 05/09/15
A Girl Called Jonny. Insitu, Jerry Saltz, Sex and Money, An Paenhuysen, [online] 27/10/15
6 Must Sees der Berlin Art Week, Anika Meier und Philipp Hindahl, Artefakt [online] 10/09/15
The Best Non-Profit Spaces in Berlin, Nicole Rodriguez, ARTSlant [online] 09/09/15
Wilkommen in Berlin “Vic”!, Monopol magazine, September 2015
Vic at insitu Berlin, Carla Fernández, Daily Serving [online] 16/08/15
Berlin Extra, Air Berlin magazine, August 2015
Freie Kunsträume in Berlin: Aktzeichnen to go, Ingeborg Wiensowski, Spiegel Online [online] 11/08/15
False Idols: Insitu Examines Celebrity, Penny Victoria Rafferty, Sleek Magazine [online] 22/07/15
Spaces to Watch: 5 questions for insitu in Berlin, Spike Art Magazine [online] 14/05/15
The Alchemy Of Curating. "Framework 6: Parallelisms", Part 2 at insitu, An Paenhuysen, [online] 19/04/15
Project Space Festival Berlin, Jesi Khadivi, Eyeout: the mobile art guide [online] 26/08/14
THE FLUX OF SPACE: BERLIN'S PROJECT SPACE FESTIVAL, Ally Bishop, Runway magazine [online] 15/07/14
In conversation with insitu, Ashton Chandler, Art:I:Curate [online] 17/03/14
Out of the black – Raumerweiterungshalle Berlin, Jeni Fulton, Berlin Art Link [online] 15/01/12
BLACK HOLES AT REH KUNST, Niche Art and Architecture, Berlin [online] 14/01/12

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