24/10/2024, 6:00 pm,

Forest Pathways. A lecture by Natasha Ginwala

, Kunsthalle Münster

This presentation brings to the foreground artistic synergies composed around materiality and methods attuning to rainforests, wetlands, mountainous highlands, and urban wildernesses as part of the interdisciplinary arts festival Colomboscope's latest edition Way of the Forest. Thinker and author Ursula K. Le Guin understands the forest as a speculative site of regeneration, the tussle between opposing ways of life, and creation of a common language as a mode of collective survival. Natasha Ginwala will reflect over what constitutes forest-led thinking engaging with figures like Le Guin as well as indigenous knowledge sources, and cultural ecologies fostered through interdependence.

Natasha Ginwala is a curator, researcher and writer. Her engagements include roles as artistic director of Colomboscope, Sri Lanka since 2019, curator of Sharjah Biennial 16, and Associate Curator at Large at Gropius Bau, Berlin (2018–2024). Ginwala is guest professor in Curatorial Practice at Kunstakademie Münster (2023–25). She was artistic director of the 13th Gwangju Biennale with Defne Ayas (2021). Ginwala has been part of curatorial teams of 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2014), Contour Biennale 8, documenta 14 (2017), Taipei Biennale 2012 and co-curated several international exhibitions including at e-flux, Sharjah Art Foundation, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, ifa Gallery, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, L’ appartement 22, Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, Kunstinstituut Melly, MCA Chicago, 56th Venice Biennale, SAVVY Contemporary and Zeitz MOCAA. Ginwala is a widely published author with a focus on contemporary art, visual culture, and social justice.