Seminar with the 2025 Tessin lecturer professor Tamar Garb
Thesis defence
Date: Thursday 6 November 2025
Time: 15.00 – 17.00
Location: The Library, 300, Manne Siegbahn Buildings, house A, Frescativägen 24E
“Curatorial Thinking from the South: Revelations and Ruminations on the work of Santu Mofokeng, David Goldblatt and Portia Zvavahera.”
Professor Tamar Garb, University College London, will give a seminar on how she has developed her art history research in relation to curatorial work. The seminar is arranged in collaboration between Art history Stockholm University and Nationalmuseum Stockholm.
Please email katarina.macleod@arthistory.su.se to reserve a place.
Professor Tamar Garb has specialised on Contemporary Art from Africa, Art and Sexuality/Gender in the Modern Period and South African Photography. Amongst her many books are Sisters of the Brush: Women's Artistic Culture in Late Nineteenth Century Paris (Yale University Press, 1994); Bodies of Modernity: Figure and Flesh in Fin de Siecle France, (Thames & Hudson, 1998) and The Painted Face, Portraits of Women in France 1814 -1914 (Yale University Press, 2007). Amongst her exhibitions and exhibition publications are Land Marks/Home Lands; Contemporary Art from South Africa at Haunch of Venison Gallery in London 2008, Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2011. In 2010 she acted as External Exhibition consultant on Gauguin: Maker of Myth for the Tate and as Consultant Editor on the accompanying catalogue. Her other shows include Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive for the Walther Collection, Ulm and New York, 2014, William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland: Conversations in Letters and Lines at the Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh, 2015/16, Made Routes: Vivienne Koorland and Bernie Searle, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, 2019; Beyond the Binary: Santu Mofokeng and David Goldblatt, Walther Collection, Ulm, 2022 and Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge and the Fruitmarket Gallery, 2024/5.
Last updated: October 29, 2025
Source: Department of Culture and Aesthetics