The Curatorial Roundtable: Nadine Isabelle Henrich (Hamburg)

Описание: MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk by Nadine Isabelle Henrich, senior curator at the House of Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg. Henrich’s most recent exhibitions include “Into the Unseen” (2025) and “Tactics and Mythologies” (2024/25). Specializing in photography, networked images, and time-based media, Henrich will lead the first center for image and media literacy in Germany–a cooperation between Deichtorhallen Hamburg and Zeit Stiftung Bucerius. Previously, she was a curatorial fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and worked in the curatorial teams of Fotomuseum Winterthur and Museum Folkwang, among others, as part of the international fellowship program Museum Curators of Photography.

For this presentation, Henrich proposes “the vulnerable display,” a concept that investigates how the politics of possessive visibility in archives, in collections and in networked media under algorithmic conditions, can be addressed and subverted within the exhibition space. Henrich draws from her case study Poetics of Search at Fotomuseum Winterthur, over her ongoing discourse and exhibition series "Viral Hallucinations to Into the Unseen" (2025), in collaboration with Tina M. Campt, to outline curatorial methods that attempt to critically archive and dissect algorithmic culture, serving as a platform to rehearse multisensorial, affective, and counternarrative practices.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, founding chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.