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Portrait of Mami Kataoka. Photo by Jennifer Yin<\/p>\n Portrait of Mami Kataoka. Photo by Jennifer Yin<\/p>\n
Art world celebrates the appointment of Japanese curator Mami Kataoka as a move in the right direction for Australian art institutions<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[4953,4954,1861,4955,4956,4957,4958,4959],"class_list":["post-33728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-21st-biennale-of-sydney","tag-art-director","tag-australia","tag-curator","tag-gwangju-biennale","tag-mami-kataoka","tag-mori-art-museum","tag-sydney"],"acf":{"main_category":null,"legacy":"1","exclude_from_ads":null,"hero_title":null,"subtitle":null,"hero":null,"teasers":null,"facebook_image":null,"related_articles":null,"next_article":null,"sleek_card_focus":null,"content":null},"yoast_head":"\n
\nMami Kataoka, the Chief Curator at the Mori Art Museum (MAM) in Tokyo, has been appointed as the Artistic Director of the 21st Biennale of Sydney. The announcement is set to bring about a better analysis of the socio-historical and generational trends within Asian art while simultaneously exploring Australia\u2019s relationship with the Asia Pacific region.
\nThroughout her career Kataoka has played a pivotal role in the incorporation of Asian contemporary art across the globe. She became chief curator at MAM in 2003, while between 2007 and 2009 she served as international curator at the Hayward Gallery in London, and in\u00a02012 she was the co-artistic director at the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. Mami Kataoka is not new to the Australian art scene however. She was one of the 13 distinguished international advisors to this year\u2019s 20th edition the Biennale of Sydney entitled: \u201cThe future is already here – it\u2019s just not evenly distributed\u201d.
\nHaving recently found out about her upcoming role in the Biennale of Sydney 2018, Mami Kataoka has expressed an interest in questioning the importance and relevance of the Biennale for the region. The Japanese curator\u2019s involvement with the 21st edition of the Biennale of Sydney is expected to be fresh and sensible with an Asian influence, though Kataoka has stated that she doesn\u2019t intend to transform it into an \u201cAsian biennale\u201d.
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\nThe 21st Biennale of Sydney takes place in 2018<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"