EXPO CHGO ONLINE 2021
EXPO CHGO ONLINE | April 8 – 12, 2021 is a curated digital exposition of contemporary and modern art complemented by five days of virtual programming, presented in collaboration with Hook. EXPO CHGO ONLINE features over 80 international galleries including Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) members, EXPOSURE galleries, and Special Exhibition participants.
EXPO CHGO ONLINE opens to the public on April 9 via hook.art/expo and features unique opportunities to navigate the site through Curated Selections from Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Marcella Beccaria, Humberto Moro, Renaud Proch, and Eric Shiner, an Environmental Thematic which invites participating galleries to present an artwork that contributes to a broad rethinking of the environment, and our special Dealer’s Choice section provides an opportunity for each of the participating exhibitors to select one artwork from another gallery’s presentation that they find interesting.
EXPO CHGO ONLINE will also offer five days of dynamic discussions, film screenings, exhibition tours, and performances reflecting Chicago’s interdisciplinary arts scene. Programs taking place during EXPO CHGO ONLINE will be free and open to the public via the EXPO CHICAGO microsite. A portion of the programming, including our Environmental Thematic, evolves from the environmentally focused Alternate Assembly: Environmental Impact in the Era of Pandemic symposium launched January 21 – 23, 2021.
Curator-Led Digital Tour | EXPO CHGO ONLINE Environmental Thematic with Katie A. Pfohl Ph.D
This tour was streamed live on Thursday, April 8 at 2pm CDT. Please view a recording of the event above. Join Katie A. Pfohl, Ph.D., Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) and EXPO CHGO’s Environmental Curator, for a tour of select artworks from the digital exposition’s Environmental […] More information →
EXPO CHGO Kick-Off Program | Framing the Moment: On Music, Architecture and Improvisation
This panel + performance premiered at 5pm CDT, Thursday, April 8. Please view the recording of the event above. Featuring David Brown (Artistic Director, Chicago Architecture Biennial), Ken Vandermark (Musician), Rosa Barba (Artist), and moderated by John Corbett (Gallerist, Corbett vs. Dempsey), this panel convenes thought leaders from visual art, music, and architectural backgrounds to […] More information →
Curator-Led Digital Tour | Collecting Emerging Artists
This panel premiered at 11am CDT, Friday, April 9. Please view the recording of the event above. Join Humberto Moro, deputy director and senior curator at the Museo Tamayo and EXPO CHICAGO’s EXPOSURE curator, for a tour of EXPO CHGO ONLINE. Since 2016, Moro has been an adjunct curator at the SCAD Museum of Art in […] More information →
Arts Funders Forum | Art for Environment: How can cultural philanthropy help solve climate change
This panel premiered at 12pm CDT, Friday, April 9. Please view the recording of the event above. Presented in partnership with the Arts Funders Forum, this panel featuring Zaria Forman (Artist), Tracey Robertson Carter (Co-Chair, AIRIE) and Sarah Sutton (Principal, Sustainable Museums) will examine how philanthropists can work with artists to fund initiatives focused on addressing […] More information →
Industry Panel | Collection Management Best Practices
This panel streamed live on Friday, April 9 at 3pm CDT. Please view a recording of the event above. Join leading professionals in art insurance, conservation, storage and shipping in an open discussion on best practices to consider in the management of personal art collections. Featuring Heather Becker (CEO, Conservation Center), Terry Dowd (Terry Dowd, Inc.), […] More information →
Program | How to Sell Hardware with Theaster Gates and Zachary Cahill
This conversation premiered at 6:30pm CDT Friday, April 10. Theaster Gates (Artist and Founder of Rebuild Foundation) and Zachary Cahill (Interdisciplinary Artist and Writer) explore notions of space, need, desire, cultural legacy and labor relations through the lens of the Hardware installation at University of Chicago’s Gray Center. Throughout their discussions, Theaster and Zachary will […] More information →
Curator-Led Digital Tour | Collecting International Artists
This tour streamed live on Saturday, April 10 at 11am CDT. Please view a recording of the event above. Join Marcella Beccaria (Chief Curator and Curator of Collections, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea) as she leads guests through her selection of works from EXPO CHGO ONLINE, in addition to a brief exhibition tour of Giulio Paolini’s […] More information →
Artist Talk | Jill Magid: Tender: Balance
This conversation streamed live on April 10th at 6pm CDT. Please view a recording of the conversation above. Featuring the premiere of a new film and other new works, Jill Magid’s Tender: Balance at the Renaissance Society thinks about the circulation of currency and measures of absence and loss, with dimensions that are both intimate […] More information →
Sequesterfest 5 | Solo Sets by Jeff Tweedy, Nels Cline & Glenn Kotche
These performances premiered at 7pm CDT on Saturday, April 11 via the Experimental Sound Studio Twitch stream. Please view the recordings of the event above. now(more near ourselves than we)is a bird singing in a tree,who never sings the same thing twiceand still that singing’s always his eyes can feel but ears may seethere never lived […] More information →
Screening | Daata Films
Still from Re-Wildling by Jakob Kudsk Steensen These films were streamed as a full Daata compilation on Sunday, April 11th at 12pm CDT. EXPO CHGO ONLINE was complemented by a thematic selection of short films on the environment by emerging contemporary artists, curated in partnership with Daata (daata.art). The works were screened together as a compilation […] More information →
Panel | In Conversation with the Driehaus Museum’s A Tale of Today: Emerging Artist Fellows
This program was live-streamed on Sunday, April 11th at 2:30pm. Please view a recording of the conversation above. This virtual panel discussion will explore the conceptual and programmatic impact of the Driehaus Museum’s A Tale of Today: Emerging Artists Fellowship on the work and trajectory of the museum’s Fellows. Now in its second pilot year, […] More information →
Performance | Tiny Performances in Empty Rooms
These performances streamed on Sunday, April 11th at 5pm CDT. Please view the event above, and watch an in-depth follow-up with the artists that was streamed live on Monday, April 12 at 11:30 a.m. CDT on the EXPO CHICAGO microsite here. With The Arts Club of Chicago in a pandemic-induced hibernation during the cold winter months, […] More information →
Panel | For and From the Void: Artists on Making in an Empty Institution
This conversation was streamed live on Monday, April 12 at 11:30am CDT. Please view a recording of the event above. Unable to host audiences en masse for performances in the actual building, The Arts Club of Chicago opted, during a pandemic-induced hibernation, to explore the generative potential of emptiness. The club invited three artists in […] More information →
Industry Panel | Collection Management Best Practices
This conversation was streamed live on Monday, April 12 at 1pm CDT. Please view a recording of the event above. Join leading professionals in art advisory, valuations, legal and art finance in an open discussion on best practices for managing personal art collections. Featuring Elizabeth Amundsen (Gurr Johns), Naomi Baigell (TPC Art Finance) and Marisa […] More information →
Artist Talk | Music and Art with Omar Velázquez
This conversation was streamed live on Monday, April 12 at 2:30pm CDT. Please view a recording of the event above. In his first solo museum exhibition, artist and musician Omar Velázquez (Puerto Rican, b. 1984) presents recent paintings and sculptures that address the intersection of painting, music, and folklore at the Museum of Contemporary Art […] More information →
Panel | Exhibiting Latinx Artists in an International Field: Connecting Mexico City + Chicago
This conversation was streamed live on Monday, April 12 at 4pm CDT. Please view a recording of the event above. Join Laura-Caroline de Lara (Interim Director, DePaul Art Museum) in conversation with Humberto Moro (Deputy Director and Senior Curator, Museo Tamayo), a member of Museo Tamayo’s young collectors circle Fátima González (Co-Founder González Jassan), and […] More information →
Exhibition Tour | Jill Magid: Tender: Balance
This tour was live-streamed on Monday, April 12 at 5:30pm CDT. Karsten Lund (Curator, Renaissance Society) leads a virtual walk-through of Jill Magid’s Tender: Balance at the Renaissance Society, navigating immersive 3D documentation of the gallery space and discussing the works in the show, their installation at the Ren, and broader conceptual threads running through […] More information →