CURATOR · DIRECTOR · WRITER · ADVISOR
R A C H A E L ~ V A N C E
20+ YEARS Contemporary Art
AUSTRALIA / EUROPE / ASIA
International practice
INDEPENDENT · INTERNATIONAL · CONNECTED
Contemporary art through curatorial thinking, strategic insight and long-term relationships.
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Research · Exhibitions · Writing · Projects
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Collections · Acquisitions · Strategy
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Artists · Institutions · Foundations
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Commercial + institutional
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Photo: Dan Soderstrom
Selected Projects
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Guest Curator
The University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery, Sippy Downs, Australia
May 16 – August 3, 2025
Artists
Arahmaiani (ID), Cian Dayrit (PH), Patricia Perez Eustaquio (PH), Yee I-Lann (MY), Mella Jaarsma (ID), Eko Nugroho (ID), Moe Satt (MM), Jakkai Siributr (TH).
Transfer centred on contemporary visual artists with connections to Southeast Asia who explored textiles as a medium. Spanning embroidery, stitching, sculptural installations, film, wall-based works, performance, and participatory pieces, the exhibition showcased a proliferation of textile and fibre art practices that reinterpreted cultural heritage through a contemporary lens at the intersection of art and life.

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Guest Curator
Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), Shepparton, Australia
November 11, 2023 – March 10, 2024
Artists
Del Kathryn Barton, Joseph Beuys, Kwesi Botchway, Sophie Calle, Joe Colombo, Lippo d’Andrea, Johnson Eziefula, Rainer Fetting, Zaachariaha Fielding, Gilbert & George, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jitish Kallat, Alicja Kwade, Tahnee Lonsdale, Heinz Mack, David Noonan, Pablo Picasso, Sigmar Polke, Ben Quilty, Julian Rosefeldt, Gareth Sansom, Rodel Tapaya, Zandile Tshabalala, Xiyao Wang, Ambera Wellmann, Franz West.
Presenting over 40 artworks from renowned international and Australian artists, The ARNDT Collection: From One World to Another is a major exhibition that celebrates the pursuit of art collecting through a selection of treasures from the extensive private collection of Matthias Arndt and Tiffany Wood.

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Curator
Australian Embassy Berlin, Germany
December 5 2018 - February 15, 2019
A solo presentation of works by internationally acclaimed Australian visual artist Brook Andrew whose interdisciplinary artistic practice draws upon new and historical forms, images and texts that conflate archival sources, cultural markers, ethnographic records, found objects and ephemera from different time periods that conjure alternative timelines. Entitled “Denkmal”, translated from German as meaning “memorial” or “monument”, the exhibition responded directly to the artist’s ambitious Federal Government Australian Research Council grant research project titled “Representation, Remembrance and the Memorial” that investigates the lack of indigenous memorials within Australia that respond to Aboriginal loss and the frontier wars.

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Guest Curator
Michael Reid Gallery, Berlin, Germany
20 Nov - 19 Dec 2020
For this solo presentation in Germany, Yore brought together quilted textiles, a suite of four needlepoint pieces and a spectacular suspended soft sculpture. Across the various fabric surfaces Yore’s cacophony of loaded visuals, emblems and texts embedded within the compositions speak directly to national discourse and and identity with the inclusion of the map of Australia.

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The Artbarn Art Space, Cape Schanck, Australia
November 4, 2023 - February 9, 2024
Solo presentation of sculptural works in Australia by internationally acclaimed Danish, Berlin-based artist Jeppe Hein within The Artbarn Art Space, showcasing a selection of pieces from the artist’s key artwork series’ that include Hein’s coloured Mirrored Balloons and appellative neon texts glowing behind two-way mirrors. This survey of works continued outside in the natural environment with a curation of large-scale outdoor sculptures from the artist's Modified Social Benches pieces staged throughout the property in Cape Schanck, Australia.

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Arndt Art Agency at Cromwell Place, London, United Kingdom
May 23 – June 4, 2023
Solo exhibition comprising a new suite of major large-scale paintings alongside a curated selection of prints and the artist’s animated film “The Nightingale and the Rose” (2015)—a remarkable adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 19th century classic.

Selected Published Work
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Follow Me Down
Artist Interview


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Picture Perfect part II Issue
Exhibition review: "The Empty House" (2018), the Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany


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Messages & Mediums
Artist interview


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Artist Interview

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Rachael Vance spoke with SBS German correspondent Daniel Salg in Berlin about her move to Germany's capital.


