• Source: Helga Pakasaar

Helga Pakasaar is a contemporary art curator and writer based in Vancouver, Canada. She has worked as Audain Chief Curator at Polygon Gallery (formerly Presentation House Gallery). She has also curated exhibitions for Griffin Art Projects in North Vancouver and previously worked as a curator at the Art Gallery of Windsor and the Walter Phillips Gallery.




Curatorial work


Pakasaar has produced exhibitions, commissions and publications with a focus on historical and contemporary photography and media art, such as C. 1983, Not Necessarily In That Order, Larry Clark, Lee Friedlander, Miroslav Tichy and Kohei Yoshiyuki. Her curatorial endeavours encompass public art commissions as with Moodyville, including a special issue of The Capilano Review, Territory, produced in partnership with Artspeak, Vancouver and Rebecca Belmore's hacer memoria. Pakasaar has presented international artists, including Rosella Biscotti, Cao Fei, Keren Cytter, Jimmie Durham, Susan Hiller, Gonzalo Lebrija, Anna Oppermann, Walid Raad, Batia Suter, Wael Shawky, and Simon Starling, and many westcoast artists.
In 2015, Pakasaar curated the inaugural exhibition at Griffin Art Projects, showcasing art held in private collections and emphasizing the role of women collectors.




Selected curatorial projects


Jeremy Shaw: DMT, (publication) & Jack Goldstein: Under Water Sea Fantasy (publication), 2004
Judy Radul: Downes Point and So Departed (Again), 2005 (publication)
Territory, 2006 (publication)
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy & Simon Starling, 2007
Moodyville, 2008 (publication)
Not Necessarily in that Order, 2010
Flakey: The Early Works of Glenn Lewis, 2010
C.1983, Part I and Part 11, 2012
Anna Oppermann / Andrea Pinheiro / Marianne Wex, 2013
Stan Douglas: Synthetic Pictures, 2014
A Thousand Quarrels: Liz Magor, 2014
Tris Vonna-Michell, 2015
B.C. Almanac(H) C-B, 2015 (publication)
Susan Hiller: Altered States, 2018
Hannah Rickards: one can make out the surface only by..., 2018
Wael Shawky: Al Araba al Madfuna, 2019
Rebecca Belmore: hacer memoria, 2023




Honours


Alvin Balkind Curator's Prize, 2013




References

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• Helga Pakasaar
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• Martha Fleming
• Dina Goldstein
• Jayce Salloum
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