Ryan Gander in conversation
- Date & time
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- Speaker
- Ryan Gander, Kate BryanRyan Gander RA - Royal Academy, Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy Schools; Kate Bryan - Soho House, arts broadcaster and curator
- Location
- Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens
- Organisation
- Royal Academy of Arts
Topics
About this talk
Join Ryan Gander RA as joins Kate Bryan in conversation to reflects on co-ordinating this year's Summer Exhibition. What does it take for a Summer Exhibition to come together? This conversation will uncover the underpinnings of the exhibition and our 2026 theme, Interconnectedness. Exploring ideas of entanglement and the unexpected and fortuitous connections and associations between disparate things, no matter how abstract or illogical, this year's Summer Exhibition seeks to prove that as humans, our outputs hold more commonality than separation. You'll hear Gander reflect on the process of bringing this idea to life and his view on how audiences can find their own unexpected connections between the thousands of works on display. Ryan Gander RA has established an international reputation through artworks that materialise in many different forms, ranging from sculpture, apparel and writing to architecture, painting, typefaces, publications and performance. As well as curating exhibitions, he is a committed educator, having taught at international art institutions and universities and written and presented BBC programmes about contemporary art and culture. The artist holds an honorary Doctor of the Arts at the Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Suffolk. In 2017 he was awarded an OBE for services to contemporary arts. In 2019 he was awarded the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. Since 2024, he has held the position of Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy Schools, London, UK. He was elected Royal Academician in 2022. Kate Bryan is an arts broadcaster and curator. For the past 10 years at Soho House, she has developed a contemporary art collection that numbers nearly 11,000 artworks on permanent display across 17 countries. She is a long-standing arts presenter, writing and presenting television programmes for BBC, Sky Arts and Sky Arte Italia since 2013. She has written 3 books, most recently How to Art published by Penguin.
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