【MOT 30th Anniversary Symposium】
How Museums Change?
Founded in 1995, MOT will be welcoming its 30th anniversary this year. Looking back on the last 30 years marked by the spread of the Internet and diversification of values, the role of museums is also being reconsidered along with shifts in society. As a “contemporary art museum” that aims to constantly represent the era’s new forms of expressions, we have always challenged ourselves in exploring ways that go beyond the traditional museum. Looking ahead, what kind of place will museums become in the future?
In this symposium, we invite young curators from Hong Kong, South Korea, and Indonesia to discuss with us the new possibilities of museums. With experience in running alternative spaces and activities by art collectives, these speakers have realized many projects in a variety of places that go beyond the museum framework. Rethinking museums as “places to gather”, we will share our thoughts on the future role of museums.
Time Schedule (tentative)
March 22 (Sat) Symposium
2:00-2:10 PM Introduction of speakers, outline of symposium (MOT)
2:10-3:10 PM Presentations by speakers (15 minutes per speaker)
3:20-4:30 PM Panel discussion, including Q&A
Information
- Date/Time
March 22 (Sat), 2025
2:00-4:30 PM（Doors open 1:45 PM）- Venue
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Auditorium (B2F)
- Capacity
180 visitors (no reservations required, first-come-first-served basis on the day)
- Admission
Free
- Speakers
Eunice Tsang (M+ Associate Curator/Hong Kong), Jiwon Yu (Leeum Museum of Art, Curator/South Korea), Leonhard Bartolomeus (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM], Curator/Indonesia)
- Organized by
Sanghae Kwon, Mayu Torigoe, Mio Harada (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo)
*Simultaneous interpretation
(Eng/Jp | Kayoko Yokota, Shio Sato)
Guest Speaker Profiles
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Eunice Tsang
Eunice Tsang (b.1991) is a Hong Kong-based cultural worker. She founded Current Plans, an experimental art space dedicated to fostering cross-disciplinary dialogues through exhibition-making since 2020. This platform serves as a vital incubator for emerging artists, often collaborating on new commissions such as site-specific installations and performances that challenge traditional exhibition formats. Tsang is also Associate Curator in M+ Museum, where she programmes and produces the Asian Avant Garde Film Festival, and Live Art programme which ranges from music performances to parties for the institution. She has participated in the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Young Curators Residency Program in Turin (2022) and her recent work includes the Colours of Humanity Arts Prize at Goethe-Institut (2024), BOOKED Art Book Fair at Tai Kwun Contemporary (2018-2023), and the Trieste Biennale (2023).
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Jiwon Yu
Jiwon Yu is a curator, writer, and translator mainly based in Seoul. She was the Assistant Curator of the 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2019-2021) before joining the Leeum Museum of Art in 2022 as Curator where she organized Kim Beom Solo Exhibition How to become a rock (2023) and curated Art Spectrum 2024 Dream Screen (co-curated with Rirkrit Tiravanija and Hyo Gyoung Jeon), Boma Pak: Ritual of Matter (2023), and Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz: A Portrait (2024). Yu is a member of an art writers' collective Yellow Pen Club (2016-) and co-director of its program/exhibition space YPC SPACE.
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Portrait by Tabitaphotoworks
Leonhard Bartolomeus
Leonhard Bartolomeus (barto) is a curator at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM). After graduating from the Jakarta Institute of Art, he joined ruangrupa (and later became part of Gudskul Ekosistem) until his departure to Yamaguchi in 2019. While working with the artist collective, he developed an interest in the intersection between art, education, and community engagement, which then influenced many of his curatorial projects such as Kolektif Kurator Kampung (2017–2021), Kurikulab: Moving Class in collaboration with Serrum (2021), The Flavour of Power in partnership with Bakudapan Food Study Group (2022), Speculative Library (2023), Iida Kaido Kikitori Art Project (2024) and Dance Floor as Study Room (2024). barto considers himself a generalist and always tries to learn new things through workshops, lectures, exhibitions, or art projects that he does in various places.