[Oberlist] Fwd: Para/Site Art Space appoints Cosmin Costinas

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*Para/Site Art Space*   <http://www.para-site.org.hk>
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Cosmin Costinas
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*Hong Kong's Para/Site Art Space Appoints Cosmin Costinas*

*Writer and Critic to Be the First
Outset Curator of
Contemporary Art*

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 Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong's leading non-profit organization dedicated
to contemporary visual art exhibitions, has named Cosmin Cosintas as its new
Executive Director/Curator. His appointment is effective immediately. Mr.
Costinas is Asia's first Outset Curator of Contemporary Art. He relocates
from his base in the Netherlands to Hong Kong this fall.

Mr. Costinas says: "I am thrilled to be joining Para/Site at this
exceptional moment of its history and look forward to bringing my
international and regional experience in leading the institution through
this process of growth and rethinking of its role on the local and world
stages."

Mr. Costinas is the outgoing curator at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst,
Utrecht, Netherlands and also serves on the advisory board of Patterns/Erste
Foundation, Vienna, Austria. Mr. Costinas was an editor of the magazines
project of documenta 12 (2005–2007) and has curated, published and lectured
extensively in Asia and Europe on the contemporary art of many regions.

"I believe we will consolidate Para/Site as an internationally relevant
critical platform for contemporary art and as one of the core institutions
designing a new, multi-centered global geography of art," he says.


At Para/Site, Mr. Costinas will focus on extending the organization's
ambitious curatorial vision, a basis for the institution's strong reputation
as a champion of contemporary art in Hong Kong, since its inception as an
artist-run space in 1996.


Mr. Costinas will become the first Outset Curator of Contemporary Art at
Para/Site, and will play a central role in leading the organisation into its
next phase of development, strengthening and forging long-term relationships
with local and international arts institutions. Mr. Costinas will curate
displays and exhibitions both at Para/Site's Sheung Wan space, as well as at
offsite and international venues.


Tim Li, Para/Site Board Chairman says: "Our belief in professional
curatorship has become one of the most important core values of the
organization. The appointment of Cosmin, a proficient curator with bold
vision is a conscious decision made by the Board. He will play a central
role in leading the organization to the next phase of development and we are
thankful to Outset Contemporary Art Fund in supporting Para/Site Art Space
making this important step for its growth."


Yana Peel, Co-Director of Outset says: " We are proud to be supporting
Cosmin Costinas as the Outset Curator of Contemporary Art, as an extension
of the foundation's decade of work in bringing challenging contemporary art
to the public. The directors and patrons of Outset hope that its model of
private patronage for public art gains momentum in Hong Kong and that its
commitment to Para/Site encourages further private support for one of the
leading independent art spaces in Asia."

Para/Site Art Space
www.para-site.org.hk
4 Po Yan Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

For images, information and interview requests, please contact:
Stephanie Poon
+852 6209 7957, 2011 la para-site.org.hk

*Notes to Editors:*

About Para/site Art Space (www.para-site.org.hk)

Para/Site Art Space is a non-profit art organization in Hong Kong. Para/Site
produces, exhibits and communicates local and international contemporary
art. Founded as an artist-run space 1996, Para/Site has been involved in
various overseas exhibitions such as the Gwangju Biennale 2002 and the
Venice Biennale 2003 and 2009.

About Outset Contemporary Art Fund (www.outset.org.uk)

Outset Contemporary Art Fund was founded in 2003 by Candida Gertler and Yana
Peel as a philanthropic organisation dedicated to supporting new art. The
not-for- profit foundation focuses on bringing private funding from its
supporters and trustees to public museums, galleries and art projects.
Addressing the need for flexible, early-stage funding within the public
arena, Outset enables ambitious non-commercial ventures, acquisitions and
publications.

About Cosmin Costinas

Cosmin Costinas is the outgoing curator at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst,
Utrecht, Netherlands (since January 2009) and an advisory board member of
Patterns/Erste Foundation, Vienna, Austria. At BAK, Mr. Costinas curated the
exhibitions *In the middle of things* by Olga Chernysheva; *I, the
Undersigned* by Rabih Mroue (toured throughout 2011 at Iniva - Institute of
International Visual Arts, London, Lunds konsthall, Lund; tranzit+display,
Prague; Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart and Museum of Modern Art,
Warsaw); *Expo Zero* by Boris Charmatz; *1st Former West Congress* (with
Maria Hlavajova) and *Surplus Value* by Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor. Mr.
Costinas co-curated (with Ekaterina Degot and David Riff) the 1st Ural
Industrial Biennial, entitled *Shockworkers of the Mobile Image*,
Ekaterinburg, 2010, and was an editor of documenta 12 Magazines,
Kassel/Vienna in 2005–2007.

He co-authored the novel *Philip* (2007) and has contributed his writing to
prestigious magazines, books, and exhibition catalogs across the world. Mr.
Costinas has taught and lectured at different universities and art academies
in Europe and China. Other recent curatorial projects include: *After the
Final Simplification of Ruins. Forms of historiography in given places*,
Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2009; *The Demon
of Comparisons, Electric Palm Tree*, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
(SMBA) and University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 2009; *Like an Attali Report,
but different. On fiction and political imagination*, Kadist Art Foundation,
Paris, 2008; and *Textground*, Display Gallery, Prague, 2004.


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