If you missed last week’s live streaming, you can listen to Isabel and Kathleen’s enlighting discussion about performance art here:
About Isabel Castro Jung
She studied Fine Arts at Stuttgart University (with Joan Jonas) and later on Image and Multimedia at the Massana in Barcelona. Isabel has performed and exhibited in the Miró Foundation in Mallorca (“Wish garden”, “Clove, memory of a hedgehog”), NDSM Amsterdam (“Watermarks”) and the ABBA Gallery in Mallorca (“Anemoi”). She has also taken part in the following contemporary dance and music festivals: “Ankunkt Neue Musik” (Berlin 2011), “ Corpus Media 2010” (Toulouse) and “Fira de Teatre de Tárrega” (Catalunya 2010).
Isabel won the art award “ Rei en Jaume 2008 “ and the production award “ Operare 2011” in Berlin. Her work has been shown in Spain, France, Germany, Holland, Portugal, Argentina and Bolivia, in video and performance festivals. Since 2012 she lives and works in London.
About Kathleen Soriano
Kathleen Soriano began her career at the Royal Academy of Arts 30 years ago. In 1989 she joined the National Portrait Gallery, where as Head of Exhibitions & Collections she was responsible for national and international programmes and oversaw some of its most successful exhibitions including photographic shows on Mario Testino, Lord Snowdon, Henri Cartier Bresson, Annie Liebovitz and Helmut Newton.
In 2004 she became one of the first cohort of Clore Leadership Fellows (identified as future leaders of the cultural sector) taking up roles at the South Bank Centre and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
In February 2006 she became Director of the independent art gallery Compton Verney, Warwickshire where she succeeded in securing designated status for the collections, as well as programming and raising the profile of its imaginative temporary exhibitions including projects such as The Fabric of Myth; Georges de la Tour; The Shadow; and Van Gogh in Britain.
January 2009 saw her appointed to Director of Exhibitions, at the Royal Academy where she programmed and curated projects such as Bronze, David Hockney, Van Gogh, Australia and Degas as well as two contemporary art exhibitions as part of the GSK Contemporary series.
Since leaving the Royal Academy in 2014 she has set up her own independent company and has been working on artistic and cultural projects, including curating the Anselm Kiefer retrospective for the Royal Academy in late 2014, and exhibitions for the art fair, Art15, and Macmillan cancer charity, as well as advising museums and private collectors. She has written extensively in her field and her broadcast activities include the three series of Portrait/Landscape Artist of the Year for Sky Arts.