Tessa Giblin

Born in New Zealand in 1978.
Works and lives in Dublin.

Program YCI 2006 participant

Tessa Giblin is currently Curator of Visual Arts at Project Arts Centre – a multidisciplinary art centre in Dublin, Ireland. The 2007 program includes the projects PHILIP – Mai Abu ElDahab, Heman Chong, Leif Magne Tangen, David Reinfort, Steve Rushton, Rosemary Heather, Francis McKee, Cosmin Costinas and Mark Aerial Waller; 4 New Productions – Rosa Barba, Jeremiah Day, Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan and Aurelien Froment; The first antechamber with Gabriel Lester, Charlotte Moth, Alexandre Singh and Maria Fusco; Sung Hwan Kim and David Michael diGregorio; and a forthcoming curated project by Alexis Vaillant.

2006 – present

Curator of Visual Arts of Project Arts Centre, Dublin

2006 april-nov

Head of Exhibitions at Smart Project Space, Amsterdam; Independent curator contracted to de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam

2005 sep – 2006 april

de Appel Curatorial Training Program, Amsterdam

2004-05

Assistant Curator of ARTSPACE, Auckland; Independent Curator contracted to Art & Industry 2004, NZ; Independent Curator contracted to Jonathan Smart Gallery, NZ

2002-04

Director of GRIDLOCKED, Christchurch

2004

Director of Fresh Gallery, Christchurch

2000

BFA, Canterbury University School of Fine Arts, Christchurch

Projects and Curated Exhibitions

2006

Last Lives in the Universe - Rosa Barba, Francois Bucher, Claire Harvey, Sung Hwan Kim, Katya Sander, Nicholas Spratt, SMART Project Space (catalogue).
Mercury in Retrograde Co-curated with De Appel CTP, Amsterdam (catalogue in progress).
Michael Blum (FR), Mariana Castillo Deball (MEX), Johan Cornelissen (NL), Stephan
Dillemuth (DE), Omer Fast (ISR/US), Aurélien Froment (FR), Dmitry Gutov (RUS), Sven Johne (DE), David Maljkovic (CRO), Ohad Meromi (ISR), Tilmann Meyer-Faje (DE/NL), Missingbooks (NL), Khalil Rabah (PAL), Femando Sánchez Castillo (ESP), and objects on loan from the Nova Zembla collection of the Rijksmuseum.
Catalyst, co-curated with Angela Serino. Bringing together experts from other fields of knowledge in a think-tank around the practice of 8 final year students from the Rietveld Akademie (Amsterdam) and St Lucas (Ghent), De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (catalogue).

2005

Sleepwalker, Where stories meander, drama combusts, and a sense of theatre infects contemporary art. Fitts & Holdemess (NZ), Aemout Mik (NL), Daniel Roth (DE), Mamie Slater (NZ) and Clemens von Wedemeyer (DE), ARTSPACE, NZ
A WHOLE LOT LESS THAN I STARTED WITH Nicholas Spratt, POP-ln Room, ARTSPACE, Auckland, NZ.
Natural Fertility. Simon Denny, BILLSPACE, ARTSPACE, Auckland, NZ.

2004

Work it. (catalogue). Co-curated with Tobias Berger, Work it. SCAPE Art & Industry Biennial, Christchurch, NZ. Monica Bonvicini (Italy), Chen Chieh-jen (Taiwan), MVRDV (NL), Francis Alys (BEL/MEX), Mia Ou, (Taiwan/NZ), Christian Jankowski (DEU), Hany Armanious (AUS), Rohan Wealleans (NZ)
Echo (catalogue). The Reuben Paterson project, Whakatata mai: Do you see what 1 see?, as part of Echo: SCAPE Art & Industry Biennial, Christchurch, NZ.
ARTSPACE Annual New Artists Exhibition: The Bed You Lie ln (catalogue). Artists responding to the art world as a social institution: Eve Armstrong, Daniel du Bem, Kah-Bee Chow, Finn Ferrier, Rachael Grant, Kim Paton, Mamie Slater, Louise Tulett, Tao Wells.
Alt Music Festival. Project Management, ARTSPACE. Pierre Bastien (Fr), Francisco López (Sp), Alan Licht (USA), Tetuzi Akiyama(Jp), Oren Ambarchi (AUS), Kris Wanders (NL/AUS), Lawrence English (AUS), Anthony Pateras (AUS), Natasha Anderson (AUS).
mobile, Mobile phone project, The Blue Oyster, Dunedin, NZ. One on one experiences of artist’s works, by calling their mobile phones from the gallery: Kah-Bee Chow, Scott Flanagan, Daniel Malone, Richard Maloy, Sriwhana Spong, Yuk King Tan.
Eddie Clemens, Eddie Clemens, ARTSPACE POP-ln Room
I Dream of Bali, Sriwhana Spong, BILLSPACE
’STARSPACE PRESENTS ASTROLOGY Guide - What’s your starsign sunshine?’ Maria Walls, BILLSPACE
Adaptives, Eve Armstrong, BILLSPACE
***SHOWSTOPPERS*** Steve Carr, Eddie Clemens, Joanna Langford, Naomi Smith, Ri Williamson. Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, NZ (catalogue).

2002 - 2004

GRIDLOCKED Urban Installation Project, Christchurch, NZ. Solo projects with 25 New Zealand artists over two years. On Tour to Queenstown/Dunedin, NZ 2003/04. http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/archived/gridlocked/

2003

Fresh Gallery, Christchurch, NZ. Solo exhibitions with 8 Christchurch artist + the Purchase Contracts, where clients were invited to purchase under a contract obliging them to give 30% of any gross increase in value back to the artist at the time of re-sell.
The Salon des Refuse, curated exhibition, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, NZ.

Art Writing (published)

2006

Compilation, Kei Takemura, Sydney Biennale Catalogue 2006

2005

Staccato, Simon Denny, The Physics Room Catalogue
Letters, Daniel Roth, Ramp magazine
The Bed You Lie ln, Catalogue essay, ARTSPACE

2004

Enduring Eternity, Peter Madden, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland
Making sure the sky is still there, Hany Armanious, Scape, Art & Industry Biennial
A rolling stone gathers no moss, Rohan Wealleans, Scape, Art & Industry Biennial
Whakatata mai: Do you see what I see?, Reuben Paterson, Scape, Art & Industry Biennial
The North / South Divide, State of the Arts, Australia, 2004

Education, Awards, Panels etc

2007

Beyond the Studio, Introducing the practice of Lonnie van Brummelen, NCAD and Hugh Lane, Dublin
MAVIS (MA Visual Arts), Seminar module leader – curatorial practice

2006

About a context-constructivist mode of curating. Panel host, with invited guests Eugene Tan and Alexis Vaillant, de Appel, Amsterdam.
The Others III: Curatorial Differences and the Dynamics of Collaboration. Panelist, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam.
ICI – international curator’s invitational at the Paris art fair - FIAC

2005 - 2006

De Appel Curatorial Training Programme, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

2005

Creative New Zealand - Creative and Professional Development Grant.
Kate Sheppard Memorial Award (Kate Sheppard led the women’s suffrage movement in
New Zealand, the first country to give women the right to vote).

2004

Panning for Gold: Curating New Zealand Now. Symposium panelist, City Gallery, Wellington.

1997 - 2001

University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, Christchurch, NZ. Bachelor of Fine Arts (studio), with papers in Art Theory, Art History, English and Russian Literature