The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) began in 1993 and recently staged its ninth edition in 2018–19. Tarun Nagesh will reflect on the history and development of the APT as it continues to focus on contemporary practices in the region. He will discuss how the exhibition has changed over time as relationships and art centres have emerged and shifted, explore some of the challenges faced when developing meaningful exhibitions drawn from such a diverse region, and discuss his work for recent editions of the exhibition with a particular focus on projects from Cambodia and South-East Asia.

About Curator:

Tarun Nagesh is Curator, Asian Art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) in Brisbane, Australia. He is part of the core curatorial team of the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT), primarily working with artists in South and South East Asia for the 7th, 8th and 9th editions. Tarun also regularly curates exhibitions for QAGOMA, including recent projects Problem-Wisdom: Thai Art in the 1990s; A Fleeting Bloom: Japanese Art from the Collection; KalpaVriksha: Contemporary Indigenous and Vernacular Art of India (as part of

Barbora Švehláková (1988) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. During her studies she took part in a number of study exchanges, for example at the T.E.I. in Athens, she also studied in the studios of Ruth Noack (AVU, Prague) or Marwa Arsaniosand Tony Chakar (Salzburg, AUT). She works at Artyčok TV, where among other matters she has produced a critical serial on the theme of university art education or attendance fetishism in cooperation with Janek Rous and Vjera Borozan (https://artycok.tv/cs/post/edu-01-ekonomika-vzdelavani ). During the period of 2019-2021 she was editor of the magazine Flash Art. She writes for a whole range ofCzech and foreign journals (Flash Art, A2 Magazine, Artalk, etc.). Švehláková has exhibited her work primarily on the Czech independent gallery scene, but also abroad, for example, at exhibitions at the Limited Access film festival in Teheran (Iran, 2019), at the Czech Center in New York (USA, 2015), at the PAF festival in Olomouc (Other Visions section, 2016), the National Gallery Prague (2017), etc.