EDUCATION
2008- 2014 Doctorate, University of Paris 1, Sorbonne, Art History (Art History, Cultural Policy and Cultural Economics), Thesis Director Philippe Dagen.
2007 Master of Curatorship and Modern Art, The University of Sydney, Australia.
1992 Bachelor of Laws (LLB), (majors International Law, Intellectual Property)
1992 Bachelor of Economics, The University of Melbourne, Australia (majors International and Development Economics).
Languages: English, French, Russian, skills in Portuguese, Hebrew, Italian, basic Shona
SELECTED EDUCATIONAL, CURATORIAL AND LECTURING ENGAGEMENTS
Selected Recent Publications and Bibliography
Interview: I A M Magazine, 8 Women in the African Art Scene, March 2015http://www.iam-africa.com/iam-valerie-kabov-gallerist-zimbabwe/
Supporting Zimbabwean art: an interview with Valerie Kabov, 15 October, 2014, Art Media Agency, http://en.artmediaagency.com/93802/supporting-zimbabwean-art-an-interview-with-valerie-kabov/ Art South Africa: Interview Issue: First Floor Gallery Harare, October 2014 http://artsouthafrica.com/220-news-articles-2013/2288-the-interview-issue-first-floor-gallery-harare.html
Rethinking institutional approaches to emerging artistic practice in Zimbabwe Houghton Kinsman, Oct 03, 2014 in Art & Culture, Interviews, Another Africa http://www.anotherafrica.net/art-culture/rethinking-institutional-approaches-to-emerging-artistic-practice-in-zimbabwe
Op-Ed: “Building a Real Arts Industry in Zimbabwe” Three Men on a Boat, October 9, 2012 (http://www.3-mob.com/?p=8075#.UHQc4eFwBrM.facebook)
Curatorial Essay: “Search and Rectify” Chris Fortescue at Gallery RTR, Paris, May 2012 (http://rtrgallery.com/html.php?lang=en&id=278)
Text for Maputo: Utopia: Arcadia, Berry Bickle at Plataforma Revolver: 14 September, 2011, (http://transboavista-vpf.net/)
Postcard from Harare, article, Arterritory.com, 17 August, 2011 (http://www.arterritory.com/en/texts/articles/259-postcard_from_harare/)
Submission to Private Sector Support Review Team, Office for the Arts, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Australia, July 2011 http://arts.gov.au/sites/default/files/submissions/private-sector/pdf/16-Valerie-Kabov-Submission.pdf
The Zimbabwean: Five Zim artists take Paris by storm,Thursday, 26 May 2011
http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=39940%3Afive-zim-artists-take-paris-by-storm&catid=37&Itemid=37
The Herald, Zimbabwe, Gallery takes art to the people By Stephen Garan'anga Sunday, 05 June,
http://www.herald.co.zw/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11797%3Agallery-takes-art-to-the-people&catid=43%3Aentertainment&Itemid=135
Artcritical.com: January 2010, Report from Harare
http://www.artcritical.com/ValerieKabov/Harare.html
Scribemedia art culture: February 2010, The relative merits of censorship
http://www.smac.us/2010/02/16/the-relative-merits-of-censorship/
Infinity Journal (2009/2010)
· Opinion Piece - Vol 1, Number 3 ,“Global political significance of developing broad-based private patronage for art ”
· Research Essay - Vol 1, Number 2, “Global and local in art policy: audiences and economies”
· Opinion Piece - Vol 1, Number 6 “In politics and in art, context is everything – a brief look at Zimbabwe economic sanctions through the prism of art ”
http://www.infinityjournal.com/search.php?search=Valerie+Kabov&x=0&y=0
Plastik #1 (December 2009/January 2010 issue) Art and Science journal of Sorbonne, University of Paris 1
http://art-science.univ-paris1.fr/personne.php?id=414&
· Postcards from the Antipodes: The return of the prodigal witch doctors -- Allan Giddy’s Active Public Sculpture
· Postcards from the Antipodes: The Cheshire Cat Smile on Schodinger’s Cat – The Work of William Seeto
July 2009 Introducing Art
Issue #3 Conceive “ART TODAY - MIXED MESSAGES IN A SPACE AGE BOTTLE”
http://www.introducingart.com/ISSUE%203/Conceive/Mixed%20Messages.html
Art Market Report
· Issue 32, The virtues of necessity – (museum accession and de-accession in Australia and overseas)
· Issue 31, 2009, Give Artists a Break: Philanthropy and the Arts
· Issue 30, 2008 A touch of Kevin – (the state of political correctness in art in Australia today)
· Issue 28, 2008 Hedge Fund Paradise (Why Financial crisis is good for the arts)
Home Page Daily
· December 2008, Why the financial crisis is good for art, the universe and everything (www.homepagedaily.com/Pages/article6507-why-the-financial-crisis-is-good -for-art-the-universe-and-everything-by-valerie-kabov.aspx
· May 2008 Of Children and Art (Bill Henson controversy comment) (www.homepagedaily.com/Pages/article4982-of-children-and-art.aspx)
2009
August 2009, Interview in Arte Capital, Lisbon, Portugal http://artecapital.net/entrevistas.php?entrevista=91
2008- 2014 Doctorate, University of Paris 1, Sorbonne, Art History (Art History, Cultural Policy and Cultural Economics), Thesis Director Philippe Dagen.
2007 Master of Curatorship and Modern Art, The University of Sydney, Australia.
1992 Bachelor of Laws (LLB), (majors International Law, Intellectual Property)
1992 Bachelor of Economics, The University of Melbourne, Australia (majors International and Development Economics).
Languages: English, French, Russian, skills in Portuguese, Hebrew, Italian, basic Shona
SELECTED EDUCATIONAL, CURATORIAL AND LECTURING ENGAGEMENTS
- February 2015, Consultant – Mapping of the Arts and Culture Sector in Zimbabwe, Report Commissioned by Africalia and British Council, to be launched May 2015.
- August 2014, Consultant – Chinhoyi University of Technology, Stakeholder’s Conference on the implementation of the new degree programmes in the Arts & Design faculty – group coordinator Fine Arts Degree assessment.
- August 2014, Johannesburg Art Fair 2014, educational programme, presenter: New models for contemporary art institutions in Africa, First Floor Gallery Harare, a case study.
- October 2013 1:54 Contemporary Art Fair, host/presenter – panel discussion Market, economies & galleries: Exploring New Territories: Antonia Carver (Director, Art Dubai, Dubai), Bisi Silva (Director, Center for Contemporary Art Lagos, Lagos) and Chab Touré (Director, Carpe Diem, Ségou).
- September 2013 – Art Public & Intercultural Dialogue Berlin @ SAVVY Contemporary, EU Grundtvig Lifelong Learning In-Service Training course – presenter, course designed to build skills in inter-cultural dialogue through and understanding of cultural diversity and how engagement can art can become a catalyst for social cohesi
- April/May 2013 – “No Limits” – coordinator, producer,visual arts competition, Harare International Festival of the Arts – First Floor Gallery Harare;
- March 2013 – co-ordinator of African Partner of Arts Collaboratory first official group meeting as part of Art Dubai;
- March 2013 –“ I am – I was – I can be” curator Willemijn de Groot, Mavis Tauzeni, First Floor Gallery Harare;
- February 2013, Chiso -- Face, curator, group exhibition, First Floor Gallery Harare;
- November/December 2012 Kunstvlaai Festival – InExactly This – curator, producer of a film and exhibition presentation from First Floor Gallery Harare (http://www.kunstvlaai.nl/2012/)
- September 2012 Berliner Liste – curator project coordinator, First Floor Gallery Harare debut at an international art fair – first for a Zimbabwean gallery (http://www.berliner-liste.org/page/gallery/305)
- Audio-visual art Harare Polytechnic – guest lecturer/presenter to second and third year students of the Fine Arts department;
- May 2012 RTR gallery, Paris, “Search and Rectify” Chris Fortescue Exhibition curator (http://rtrgallery.com/html.php?lang=en&id=278)
- May 2012 Art, Public & Intercultural Dialogue, ACA -- La Associación de Creadoras Audio & Visual, Barcelona, Spain -- EU Grundtvig Lifelong Learning In-Service Training course – presenter, designed to build skills in art education and inter-cultural dialogue focusing specifically on models of engaging different socially alienable groups in society from migrants to the aged and the mentally and physically disabled.
- April 2012 Art Diversity and Intercultural Engagement, Elan Interculturel, Paris, EU Grundtvig Lifelong Learning In-Service Training course – presenter, designed to build skills in inter-cultural dialogue through and understanding of cultural diversity and how engagement can art can become a catalyst for social cohesion.
- April/May 2012 Harare International Festival of the ArtsVasikana Vedu (Our Girls) – exhibition curator First Floor Gallery
- March/April 2012 National Gallery of Zimbabwe – Business of Art guest lecturer, presenter of seminar to secondary school art teachers and secondary school students on developing local art industry in Zimbabwe and building professional confidence in the arts
- January 2012 – Harare Beyond Words, H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand – Exhibition of emerging contemporary art from Zimbabwe, curator and developer of the first exhibition of Zimbabwean contemporary art in Thailand.
- October 2011 – Ongoing Art and Cross-cultural adaptation – EU Grundtvig Learning Partnership coordinator of partnership between art institutions in Finland, Croatia, Belgium and France to develop a best practice tool-kit and database for support of art inter-cultural education in Europe.
- September 2011- October 2011, Maputo: Utopia: Arcadia – Exhibition, Berry Bickle, curator and coordinator of video installation exhibition, at Plataforma Revolver gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (http://transboavista-vpf.net/)
- September 2011, Art Diversity & Social Cohesion course (EU Grundtvig Lifelong Learning In-Service Training course – co-presenter, designed to build skills in inter-cultural dialogue through and understanding of cultural diversity and how engagement can art can become a catalyst for social cohesion.
- April 2011 Austral><Afric/Art in the City,The Basement, Harare, Zimbabwe, exhibition curator, Richard Butler-Bowdon and emerging Zimbabwean artists (Terrence Musekiwa, Brian Banda, Zacharaha Magasa, Moffat Takadiwa and Franklyn,
- May 2011 Harare – Paris, Jeune, contemporaine, zimbabween, Le Pavé d’Orsay, Paris, France.
- May 2011 Art & Dialogue - Engagement in art and engagement through art Art & Dialogue - Engagement in art and engagement through art, Paris, France EU – Grundtvig, Lifelong Learning In-service training course designed to teach new approaches to art history and art, to senior museum educators, curators and tertiary art education professionals.
- March 2011 Women & Art Masterclass, The Culture Fund of Zimbabwe, First Floor Gallery Harare, International Women’s Day programme, coordinator- lecturer.
- February 2011 Bukira (New Growth), First Floor Gallery Harare, exhibition of 3 emerging artist – Terrence Musekiwa, Franklin Dzingai, Nyasha Mujati
- November 2010 Critical Dialogue Series, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom (guest lecturer)
- October 2010 Arts for Intercultural Dialogue Toolkit, British Council Intercultural Navigators Programme contributor to source materials and case studies;
- October 4-8, 2010 – Art as Dialogue, Paris, France (Building new art audiences and new platforms for art engagement and engagement through art) Comenius - Grundtvig Training Database reference number "FR-2010-319-001" – Course presenter and co-ordinator, Course designed to teach new approaches to art history and art, to senior museum educators, curators and tertiary art education professionals.
- September 2010 Professional Encounters Workshop, University of Avignon, Department of Culture and Communication, presenter of career and professional practice workshop to graduating Masters Students.
- August 2010 Breaking the Barriers of Art, Gender and Culture, International Forum at National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe, lecturer paper “Breaking Cultural Barriers through Art” and co-moderator of discussion forum.
- August 2010 Contemporary Art Practice Master Class, First Floor Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe guest educator, presenter of master class to young Zimbabwean artists on contemporary art practice and portfolio review.
- May & July 2010 – Creative Enterprise Programme, British Council, Zimbabwe - teacher presenter of business skills units for the programme delivery in Harare, Mutare and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
- December 2009 First Floor Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe founding and consulting director of Harare’s first, emerging artist gallery aimed at providing opportunity for experimentation and learning for Zimbabwean emerging artists.
- November 2009 National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, lecturer and moderator of Global Forum – Local Content, globalisation and tradition in Contemporary Art, a discussion forum addressing artists, academics, curators as well as cultural professionals and the press on the nature of contemporary art practice the role of globalisation and the art market and the importance of tradition in this context.
- November 2009 British Council, Youth Leadership Division, Harare Zimbabwe, Lecturer/Presenter/Trainer – Art fundamentals – a workshop for young Zimbabwean professionals to build art understanding and appreciation fundamentals and enable them to work on a Harare wide high-school art and recycling – civic pride project.
- July 2009 Virtual Museum New University Lisbon, Portugal lecturer, presenter and moderator of forum discussion on Globalisation Art and Value e as part of the educational programming at New University of Lisbon, Portugal.
- April 2007- August 2011 Why Art? Newsletter, author, publisher of critically acclaimed subscription based email monthly publication providing an overview of contemporary art, artists, galleries and the art market around Australia. The newsletter is designed to make contemporary visual art more accessible and profiles young artists and their work. Current subscriber base 1,500, with an average monthly circulation of 5,000. (https://whyartnewsletter.wordpress.com/)
Selected Recent Publications and Bibliography
Interview: I A M Magazine, 8 Women in the African Art Scene, March 2015http://www.iam-africa.com/iam-valerie-kabov-gallerist-zimbabwe/
Supporting Zimbabwean art: an interview with Valerie Kabov, 15 October, 2014, Art Media Agency, http://en.artmediaagency.com/93802/supporting-zimbabwean-art-an-interview-with-valerie-kabov/ Art South Africa: Interview Issue: First Floor Gallery Harare, October 2014 http://artsouthafrica.com/220-news-articles-2013/2288-the-interview-issue-first-floor-gallery-harare.html
Rethinking institutional approaches to emerging artistic practice in Zimbabwe Houghton Kinsman, Oct 03, 2014 in Art & Culture, Interviews, Another Africa http://www.anotherafrica.net/art-culture/rethinking-institutional-approaches-to-emerging-artistic-practice-in-zimbabwe
Op-Ed: “Building a Real Arts Industry in Zimbabwe” Three Men on a Boat, October 9, 2012 (http://www.3-mob.com/?p=8075#.UHQc4eFwBrM.facebook)
Curatorial Essay: “Search and Rectify” Chris Fortescue at Gallery RTR, Paris, May 2012 (http://rtrgallery.com/html.php?lang=en&id=278)
Text for Maputo: Utopia: Arcadia, Berry Bickle at Plataforma Revolver: 14 September, 2011, (http://transboavista-vpf.net/)
Postcard from Harare, article, Arterritory.com, 17 August, 2011 (http://www.arterritory.com/en/texts/articles/259-postcard_from_harare/)
Submission to Private Sector Support Review Team, Office for the Arts, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Australia, July 2011 http://arts.gov.au/sites/default/files/submissions/private-sector/pdf/16-Valerie-Kabov-Submission.pdf
The Zimbabwean: Five Zim artists take Paris by storm,Thursday, 26 May 2011
http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=39940%3Afive-zim-artists-take-paris-by-storm&catid=37&Itemid=37
The Herald, Zimbabwe, Gallery takes art to the people By Stephen Garan'anga Sunday, 05 June,
http://www.herald.co.zw/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11797%3Agallery-takes-art-to-the-people&catid=43%3Aentertainment&Itemid=135
Artcritical.com: January 2010, Report from Harare
http://www.artcritical.com/ValerieKabov/Harare.html
Scribemedia art culture: February 2010, The relative merits of censorship
http://www.smac.us/2010/02/16/the-relative-merits-of-censorship/
Infinity Journal (2009/2010)
· Opinion Piece - Vol 1, Number 3 ,“Global political significance of developing broad-based private patronage for art ”
· Research Essay - Vol 1, Number 2, “Global and local in art policy: audiences and economies”
· Opinion Piece - Vol 1, Number 6 “In politics and in art, context is everything – a brief look at Zimbabwe economic sanctions through the prism of art ”
http://www.infinityjournal.com/search.php?search=Valerie+Kabov&x=0&y=0
Plastik #1 (December 2009/January 2010 issue) Art and Science journal of Sorbonne, University of Paris 1
http://art-science.univ-paris1.fr/personne.php?id=414&
· Postcards from the Antipodes: The return of the prodigal witch doctors -- Allan Giddy’s Active Public Sculpture
· Postcards from the Antipodes: The Cheshire Cat Smile on Schodinger’s Cat – The Work of William Seeto
July 2009 Introducing Art
Issue #3 Conceive “ART TODAY - MIXED MESSAGES IN A SPACE AGE BOTTLE”
http://www.introducingart.com/ISSUE%203/Conceive/Mixed%20Messages.html
Art Market Report
· Issue 32, The virtues of necessity – (museum accession and de-accession in Australia and overseas)
· Issue 31, 2009, Give Artists a Break: Philanthropy and the Arts
· Issue 30, 2008 A touch of Kevin – (the state of political correctness in art in Australia today)
· Issue 28, 2008 Hedge Fund Paradise (Why Financial crisis is good for the arts)
Home Page Daily
· December 2008, Why the financial crisis is good for art, the universe and everything (www.homepagedaily.com/Pages/article6507-why-the-financial-crisis-is-good -for-art-the-universe-and-everything-by-valerie-kabov.aspx
· May 2008 Of Children and Art (Bill Henson controversy comment) (www.homepagedaily.com/Pages/article4982-of-children-and-art.aspx)
2009
August 2009, Interview in Arte Capital, Lisbon, Portugal http://artecapital.net/entrevistas.php?entrevista=91
