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RECENT

2023

Contributor to "Open Sodas: Maistas" at Sodas 2123, with an experimental installation of How to Curate Your Own Textile Art Exhibition (forthcoming, 2023), Vilnius, July 2023.

Organiser of the reading group RUDE READERS at Sodas 2123, Vilnius, July 2023.

Participant in the research and curatorial residency Ūmėdė at Sodas 2123 in Vilnius, Lithuania, organised by Gailė Griciūtė, Vytautas Michelkevičius, Ignas Pavliukevičius, as well as Indrė Liškauskaitė.

Author of "The Innermost Corner of the Outermost Layer - an Interview with Renate D. Dahl, Judit Fritz, and Lauren Kalman," in The Vessel 5, 2023, edited by Camilla Lhuin and Agnieszka Knapp. 

Participant in the collective curatorial residency The Community of Writers in Łódź and Warsaw, organised by Anne Szefer Carlsen, Part 2/2.

Contributor to the Fashion Fictions research project by Dr. Amy Twigger Holroyd, World 182 "in which fashion focuses on the vicarious consumption of historical garments."

2022

Reviewer of the exhibition Samlingen (The Collection) at Nasjonalmuseet, in Fashion Theory.

Lecturer in Fashion Theory at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO), fall semester 2022, BA students.

Respondent to Schrinkhla Sahai's essay "Wordwise Women: Early Feminist Publishing in India," in Mezosfera's issue "Write or Be Written Off: Publishing as Empowerment in Art and Culture," edited by Dóra Hegyi, public launch event, October 2022. 

Participant in the collective curatorial residency The Community of Writers in Bergen, organised by Anne Szefer Carlsen, Part 1/2.

Co-author of "Giving a Glimpse Behind the Scenes", and co-editor with Stephanie Serrano-Sundby and Torill Østby Haaland of The Hands that Unravel the Sweater, exhibition book, Norske Kunsthåndverkeres Temautstilling 2022, at Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter, Svolvær, Lofoten, June-August 2022. Project manager of the exhibition.

Author of the article "Go Big or Go Home? Noen refleksjoner rundt kunsthåndverk og monumentalitet" in Kunsthåndverk 1, 2022.

About
ABOUT

Johanna Zanon (b. 1988, FR) is an independent curator and researcher, who lives and works in Oslo, Norway. She holds a PhD in history from the University of Oslo, a graduate diploma from École Nationale des Chartes in Paris, and an MA in art history from École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. Her curatorial interests include labour, production, capitalism, contemporary crafts, speculative and interactive fiction, art theory, and environmental humanities. She also works as a programme curator at Norske Kunsthåndverkere, and is a member of Norsk Kuratorforening and Kunsthistorisk Forening.

zanon.johanna (a) gmail.com

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