ICA kyoto TALK 058

Tales of Four Cities: Curatorial Practice Across Time Zones

Speaker： Yung Ma (Curator / London, UK)
Moderator： Takuya Tsutsumi (Program Director, ICA Kyoto)
Interpreter： Miho Tsujii

The talk will offer an overview of Yung Ma’s career as a curator to date. With a selection of exhibitions and projects from four major contemporary art institutions in Hong Kong, Paris, Seoul and London, Ma will reflect on the various approaches and strategies he has employed to navigate the different models and contexts. The talk will also explore the four different institutional settings and the challenges of working in the public sector today.

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Event Details

Date： July 10 (Thu.), 2025, 18:30-20:00
Venue： Kyoto Uradera Gokurakuji (Urateramachi 586, Ura-Teramachi Street, down from Rokkaku, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto)
Capacity： Approx. 40 persons / Advance booking is not required
Admission： Free
Organized by： ICA Kyoto, Kyoto University of Arts Graduate School
Cooperation： Higashiyama Artists Placement Service (HAPS), Kyoto Uradera Gokurakuji

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Yung Ma

Yung is currently servicing as Senior Curator at the Hayward Gallery in London. Prior to his appointment at Hayward in November 2021, Yung was Artistic Director of the 11th edition of the Seoul Mediacity Biennale and served as Curator of the Contemporary Art and Prospective Creation Department at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, where he organised the solo exhibition HX by Cao Fei (2019), and has also co-organised the group exhibitions Chine-Afrique (2020) and Global(e) Resistance (2020 – 2021). He was previously Associate Curator of Moving Image at M+, Hong Kong (2011–16), where he was tasked to develop the institution’s moving image collection. While at M+, he also conceived the series M+ Screenings (2016–) as well as exhibitions such as Mobile M+: Moving Images (2015). He has twice served as Co-Curator of the Hong Kong Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, in 2009 with the solo presentation of Pak Sheung Chuen and 2013 with the solo presentation of Lee Kit.

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About ICA Kyoto TALK

ICA Kyoto was set up in 2020 as an adjunct to the Kyoto University of the Arts Graduate School, and since then has offered an ongoing program of talks with guest artists, curators, researchers, and gallerists working in Japan and elsewhere. ICA Kyoto TALK is part of this program, and has now merged with the previous Global Art Talk initiative in a platform designed to connect Kyoto with diverse art scenes worldwide, and encourage dialogue. The aim of ICA Kyoto TALK is to open up new perspectives by moving between local, on-the-ground activities and global trends to deliver authentic experiences of our multilayered world.

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Contact

info@icakyoto.art

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