Helga Pakasaar

Helga Pakasaar is a contemporary art curator and writer based in Vancouver, Canada. She has worked as curator at Polygon Gallery (formerly Presentation House Gallery) since 2003.[1] She has also curated exhibitions for Griffin Art Projects in North Vancouver[2] and previously worked as a curator at the Art Gallery of Windsor and the Walter Phillips Gallery.

Pakasaar has curated several exhibitions focusing on historical and contemporary photography and media art,[3] such as C. 1983[4] and Not Necessarily In That Order. Her curatorial endeavours encompass multi-venue contemporary art projects, including Moodyville, featuring a special issue of The Capilano Review,[5] and Territory, produced in partnership with Artspeak, Vancouver.[6][7]

Selected Curatorial Projects

  • Jeremy Shaw: DMT, September 16, 2004 — October 24, 2004, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Jack Goldstein: Under Water Sea Fantasy, September 16, 2004 — October 24, 2004, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Andrew Wright: Skies, November 5, 2004 — December 19, 2004, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Kevin Schmidt: Fog, November 5, 2004 — December 19, 2004, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Althea Thauberger: A Memory Lasts Forever, March 30, 2005 — April 5, 2005, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Christine Davis: Drink Me, April 30, 2005 — June 5, 2005, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Judy Radul: Downes Point and So Departed (Again), September 10, 2005 — October 23, 2005, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Territory, June 10, 2006 — August 6, 2006, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Tichy, November 18, 2006 — January 14, 2007, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Laszlo Moholy-Nagy & Simon Starling, March 24, 2007 — April 29, 2007, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Moodyville, June 3, 2008 — June 15, 2008, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Juliette and Friends, November 22, 2008 — January 11, 2008, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Isabelle Pauwels: B and E, January 31, 2009 — March 22, 2009, Presentation House Gallery.
  • The Malcolmson Collection, October 1, 2009 — December 20, 2009, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Not Necessarily in that Order, May 1, 2010 — July 11, 2010, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Flakey: The Early Works of Glenn Lewis, September 11, 2010 — November 14, 2010, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Glenn Lewis: Room Divided, September 29, 2010 — October 17, 2010, Satellite Gallery, Vancouver.
  • Glenn Lewis: Four Intersections, October 21, 2010 — November 7, 2010, Satellite Gallery, Vancouver.
  • Larry Clark, Tulsa, September 10, 2011 — November 13, 2011, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park, September 10, 2011 — November 13, 2011, Presentation House Gallery.
  • C.1983, January 27, 2012 — March 11, 2012, Presentation House Gallery.
  • C.1983 Part II, March 23, 2012 — May 6, 2012, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Phantasmagoria, May 24, 2012 — July 22, 2012, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Anna Oppermann / Andrea Pinheiro / Marianne Wex, January 19, 2013 — March 24, 2013, Presentation House Gallery.
  • News!, February 14, 2013 — March 30, 2013, Satellite Gallery, Vancouver.
  • Zhang Yaxin: Model Opera, June 14, 2013 — July 26, 2013, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Another Happy Day: Found Photographs Collected by Jonah Samson, September 12, 2013 — November 24, 2013, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Cindy Sherman Meets Dzunuk’Wa: From The Michael And Inna O’Brian Collection, February 14, 2014 — March 29, 2014, Satellite Gallery, Vancouver.
  • Stan Douglas: Synthetic Pictures, March 21, 2014 — May 25, 2014, Presentation House Gallery.
  • A Thousand Quarrels: Liz Magor, June 7, 2014 — August 3, 2014, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Lee Friedlander: Thick of Things, November 29, 2014 — February 8, 2015, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Tris Vonna-Michell, April 23, 2015 — May 31, 2015, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Eye to Eye, June 14, 2015 — July 26, 2015, Presentation House Gallery.
  • New York Art Book Fair 2015, September 18, 2015 — September 20, 2015, Presentation House Gallery.
  • B.C. Almanac(H) C-B, September 30, 2015 — November 29, 2015, Presentation House Gallery.
  • Isabelle Pauwels: Lying Stills / Constructing Truth With Photography, March 28, 2016 — July 31, 2016, Waterfront Station, All lines, Vancouver, BC.
  • Nanitch: Early Photographs Of British Columbia From The Langmann Collection, March 30, 2016 — June 26, 2016, Presentation House Gallery.

Honours

  • Alvin Balkind Curator's Prize, 2013

References

  1. ↑ "Presentation House Gallery Staff". Presentationhousegallery.org. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  2. ↑ "Account Suspended". Griffinartprojects.ca. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  3. ↑ Pakasaar, Helga,Fred Herzog: The City’s Fabric, Ciel Variable CV Photo, no. 79 (Summer 2008): 26-31
  4. ↑ Rhodes, Richard (April 19, 2012). "C. 1983: Picture Making Made History". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  5. ↑ "The Capilano Review - Spring 2009, Issue 3.8". Thecapilanoreview.ca. 1938-05-28. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  6. ↑ "Territory | Artspeak". Artspeak.ca. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  7. ↑ Laurence, Robin (July 20, 2006). "Territory". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
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