Guest Lecture with Pip Willis

Pip Wallis visited Tamaki Makaurau/Auckland from Naarm/Melbourne 6–9 May and delivered a guest lecture on her research/practice to date.

Pip Wallis is Senior Curator at Monash University Museum of Art where she recently co-curated, with Andy Butler, Statecraft, an exhibition by Taungurung artist Steven Rhall and Vietnamese-German artist Sung Tieu. Before joining MUMA, Pip was Director of Programs at Callie’s in Berlin where she worked on programs by Bouchra Khalili, Sophie Lee and Colin Self. She was previously Curator, Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, where she curated projects by Simone Forti, Hito Steyerl and Adam Linder and commissioned works by Nicholas Mangan, Ruth Höflich, Archi Barry and Ulla Von Brandenberg. She was Curator in Residence at Chisenhale Gallery London and Managing Editor at X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal, Los Angeles. Pip was a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council funded study Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum (2020 – 2024) and co-ceditor of the associated publication Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum (2024) published by the National Gallery of Victoria.

The Visiting Curators Programme is made possible through collaboration with hosting institutions Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and University of New South Wales (UNSW).

08 May - 08 June 2024