Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez

An interdependent curator, editor and writer. Since 2021 she has been head of the artistic and cultural programme at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. Together with Elena Sorokina, she is co-founder of the Initiative for practices and visions of radical care. Among the exhibitions she curated are Not Fully Human, Not Human at All, organized by KADIST, Paris and Kunstverein in Hamburg (2017-2021, with Emilie Villez and Bettina Steinbrügge), Contour Biennale 9: Coltan as Cotton (2019, Mechelen); Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives in France (1970s-1980s) at LaM, Lille, Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna and Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (2019-2023, with Giovanna Zapperi); Show me your archive and I will tell you who is in power at Kiosk, Ghent (2017, with Wim Waelput); Let’s Talk about the Weather at the Sursock Museum, Beirut and Times Museum, Guangzhou (2016 and 2018, with Nora Razian); Resilience. U3 – Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia at MSUM, Ljubljana (2013). She was co-director of Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers (2010–2012, with Alice Chauchat and Grégory Castéra). She worked as chief editor of the journals Versopolis Review (2020-2021), L’Internationale Online (2014-2017) and of the Manifesta Journal (2012-14). She organized symposiums at the INHA, Paris; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Tate Modern, London; and Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana. Together with Patricia Falguières and Elisabeth Lebovici she is the co- organiser of the seminar Something You Should Know (2016 – ongoing, EHESS, Paris). Since 2019, she has been working as a tutor at the Sint Lucas School of Arts, Antwerpen.