Décor: A Conquest. Public Talk with Bart de Baere and Rachel Haidu

Ekaterina Inozemtseva is a Senior Curator at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University in 2004 and subsequently obtained her Candidate’s Degree in Philology there in 2007. From 2003 to 2004, she worked in the Department of Experimental Programs at the National Center for Contemporary Arts. From 2004 to 2005, she was a curator at Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, and from 2006 to 2011, she was deputy art director at Proun Gallery, Moscow. From 2011 to 2014 she was chief curator and deputy director of Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, where she curated over fifty projects. Inozemtseva has worked at Garage since 2014, where she became Senior Curator in 2017. Author of multiple publications in exhibition catalogues and periodicals. Kariatida Award laureate (2013).

Bart De Baere is director of M HKA in Antwerp, the contemporary art museum of the Flemish Community in Belgium. Since its merger with the Centre for Visual Culture in 2003, M HKA has become active within visual culture at large. It calls itself a "Eurasian museum", advocating for a greater European openness towards Asia, that vast island of which Europe is actually only a peninsula. M HKA grounds itself in the avant-garde of the period after the Second World War, for which the city of Antwerp was an important hub. This international, open tradition is continued by the museum into an openness to the multipolar world of today.

Rachel Haidu is associate professor of art history at the University of Rochester, where she directed the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies for six years. Her book The Absence of Work: Marcel Broodthaers 1964-1976 was published by October Books/MIT Press in 2010 and she has recently published essays on artists including Ulrike Müller, Andrzej Wróblewski, Yvonne Rainer, and Sharon Hayes. She is completing a book on notions of selfhood in contemporary art and researching another on forms of abstraction allied with the Soviet Revolution that resurface in video art from contemporary Eastern Europe.