Following the presentation It is like a finger pointing a way to the moon (sculpturance), we invite you to join the artist Moya Michael and her team in a conversation with Brazilian curator Olivia Ardui and other artists from the KVS Próximamente Festival, aligned with Futuro Ancestral, this year’s festival focus.
Free upon registration
In English
In the frame of Próximamente Festival (KVS)
Courtesy of the artist
BIO I Olivia Ardui is a storyteller working at the intersection of visual and performing arts. Her narratives unfold across diverse formats, from critical essays and love letters to formal courses and tarot readings, exhibitions, and speculative performances. In her recent projects, she explores exhibition-making and art history through the lens of fiction and dramaturgy, treating them as potential theatrical scripts that challenge notions of objectivity and neutrality. Reception, mediation, and the interplay between form and content are central to her practice.
Olivia holds a master’s degree in Art History from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium. In São Paulo, Brazil, she gained extensive institutional experience at the Tomie Ohtake Institute's Research and Curatorial Department (2013–2016), contributed to the curatorial team of the 12th International Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador (2013–2014), and served as curator at MASP – Museum of Art of São Paulo (2017–2020). At MASP, she worked closely with the collections and their presentation in Lina Bo Bardi’s glass easels and co-curated the major collective exhibition Histories of Dance, along with its related publications and public programs.
Additionally, she has been involved in various initiatives as a co-organizer of seminars at Centro Cultural Contraponto (2016), researcher for the Lastro Centroamerica itinerant residency in Mexico (2015), and visiting curator at Fonte Artists Residency (2014–2016), among others. Now based in Belgium, she currently teaches in the Art History department at UCLouvain while pursuing independent artistic projects.
