ESR 2026 Online Session with Ruth Noack
Ruth Noack speaks at the Art as a Form of Resistance conference at the Lidice Art Collection on 30 October 2025.
The ESR 2026 Mentoring Session with Ruth Noack will take place via Google Meet on Wednesday, 30 September 2026, at 2 pm CEST. The invitation will arrive via email and is open only to those who applied to the ESR in 2025 or 2026.
🎤 Ruth Noack (Professor of Art and the Public Sphere, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf)
Ruth Noack is a curator, art historian, writer and teacher. She became known internationally for curating documenta 12 (2007) with Roger M. Buergel. From 2019 to 2021, she directed The Corner at Whitman-Walker in Washington, D.C., an art centre where contemporary art, the local community and healthcare meet. She has taught since 2000, including as Head of Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art in London. She wrote a monograph on Sanja Iveković and edited a volume on museums in the age of migration. Ruth sits on the Council of the Lidice Art Collection.
The 90-minute session brings together the ten ESR 2026 residents, currently in residence in Budapest, Dubrovnik and Lidice. In the first part, Ruth Noack will talk about her curatorial practice and thinking. Everyone who applied to ESR 2026 is invited to join. The second part is a closed conversation between Ruth and the ESR 2026 residents.
🎤 Hosted by Miriam Kulmová (Curatorial Assistant, Lidice Art Collection – Lidice Memorial)
ESR 2026
📍 ESR 2026 takes place in three locations – Budapest, Dubrovnik & Lidice – from Monday, 14 September to Tuesday, 13 October 2026.
Funders and Partners
🌍 Project partners: Lidice Art Collection — Lidice Memorial(CZ),Pro Progressione(HU), Art radionica Lazareti (HR).
🇪🇺 ESR is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible.
🫂 The Call for Curators, ArtMap and Artalk support ESR 2026.