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Interview: Larry Rinder and Charlotta Kotík

An interview and discussion between the art historian and curator Charlotta Kotík and Larry Rinder, Director of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.


Larry Rinder is the director of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive since 2008. Previously, he was the Dean of the College at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Rinder also served as the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2001 - 2005) and was founding director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, in San Francisco (1998 - 2000) and curator of Berkeley Art Museum (1988 - 1998).

Charlotta Kotik came to the United States in 1970. In 1985, she became chairman of the Department of Contemporary Art of the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York City, where she worked until 2007. Presently, Charlotta Kotik works as a writer and independent curator and teaches at School of Visual Arts.





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Larry Rinder is the director of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive since 2008. Previously, he was the Dean of the College at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Rinder also served as the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2001 - 2005) and was founding director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, in San Francisco (1998 - 2000) and curator of Berkeley Art Museum (1988 - 1998).

Larry Rinder has organized many exhibitions at museums and galleries across the USA. These have included Create, co-curated with Matthew Higgs (2011); Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings (2003); The American Effect (2003), an exploration of perceptions of America as seen in international contemporary art; Tim Hawkinson (2005), which won the award for "Best Monographic Museum Show in New York City" from the U.S. chapter of the International Association of Art Critics; and the Whitney Biennial Exhibition (2002); Searchlight: Consciousness at the Millennium (2000) and LOT/EK: TV-TANK (1998); In a Different Light (1995), co-organized with Nayland Blake, which explored the resonance of gay and lesbian experience in twentieth-century American culture; Knowledge of Higher Worlds: Rudolf Steiner's Blackboard Drawings (1997); Louise Bourgeois: Drawings (1996); Félix González-Torres (1994); Where There Is Where There: The Prints of John Cage (1989).

As well as his curatorial and pedagogical activities L. Rinder is the author of art criticism, essays (Art Life: Selected Writings, 1991-2005), poetry, fiction, a novel (Revenge of the Decorated Pigs), a novella (Tuleyome, co-written with the artist Colter Jacobsen), and theater plays.



Charlotta Kotik came to the United States in 1970. In 1985, she became chairman of the Department of Contemporary Art of the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York City, where she worked until 2007.

She established one of her major contributions to the practice of curating— series of Grand Lobby Projects—in order to provide exhibition opportunities for extensive installation-based works by artists such as Martin Puryear, Joseph Kosuth, Alison Saar, Ida Applebroog and many others. In the 1980s she also initiated the Working in Brooklyn series to document the energy of the nascent Brooklyn art scene.

In 1993, as the United States commissioner for Venice Biennale, she presented works by Louise Bourgeois in an exhibition that later traveled internationally. During the course of her career, Ms. Kotik has organized over 100 museum exhibitions, presenting the work by contemporary artists such as Mariko Mori, Kerry James Marshall, John Cage, Jenny Holzer, Robert Longo, and Annie Leibovitz.

Presently, Charlotta Kotik works as a writer and independent curator and teaches at School of Visual Arts. In 2012, she has organized the exhibitions Will Create / Will to Live: The Culture of Terezin for 92StreetY in New York and Singular Drawings for the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock.

6.6. 2012 7 p.m.
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Discussion is held in cooperation with SVIT gallery, in the frame of the exhibition Inner Sleeves: Ajit Chauhan & Coracle Nestjob (Svit Praha, opening on Friday 8.6. 7 p.m., www. svitpraha.org)


Discussion is held in English.


The discussion and exhibition are supported by U.S. Embassy in Prague.

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