Helga Pakasaar
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Helga Pakasaar is a contemporary art curator and writer based in
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, Canada. She has worked as Audain Chief Curator at Polygon Gallery (formerly Presentation House Gallery). She has also curated exhibitions for Griffin Art Projects in North Vancouver and previously worked as a curator at the
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and the
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Curatorial work

Pakasaar has produced exhibitions, commissions and publications with a focus on historical and contemporary
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, such as ''C. 1983'', ''Not Necessarily In That Order, Larry Clark, Lee Friedlander, Miroslav Tichy and Kohei Yoshiyuki.'' Her curatorial endeavours encompass public art commissions as with ''Moodyville'', including a special issue of
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, ''Territory'', produced in partnership with Artspeak, Vancouver and Rebecca Belmore's ''hacer memoria''. Pakasaar has presented international artists, including Rosella Biscotti, Cao Fei, Keren Cytter, Jimmie Durham, Susan Hiller, Gonzalo Lebrija, Anna Oppermann, Walid Raad, Batia Suter, Wael Shawky, and Simon Starling, and many westcoast artists. In 2015, Pakasaar curated the inaugural exhibition at Griffin Art Projects, showcasing art held in private collections and emphasizing the role of women collectors.


Selected curatorial projects

* ''Jeremy Shaw: DMT,'' (publication) & ''Jack Goldstein: Under Water Sea Fantasy (publication), 2004'' * ''Judy Radul: Downes Point and So Departed (Again)'', 2005 (publication) * ''Territory'', 2006 (publication) * ''Laszlo Moholy-Nagy & Simon Starling'', 2007 * ''Moodyville'', 2008 (publication) * ''Not Necessarily in that Order'', 2010 * ''Flakey: The Early Works of Glenn Lewis'', 2010 * ''C.1983'', Part I and Part 11, 2012 * ''Anna Oppermann / Andrea Pinheiro / Marianne Wex,'' 2013 * ''Stan Douglas: Synthetic Pictures'', 2014 * ''A Thousand Quarrels: Liz Magor'', 2014 * ''Tris Vonna-Michell'', 2015 * ''B.C. Almanac(H) C-B'', 2015 (publication) * ''Susan Hiller: Altered States, 2018'' * ''Hannah Rickards: one can make out the surface only by..., 2018'' * ''Wael Shawky: Al Araba al Madfuna, 2019'' * ''Rebecca Belmore: hacer memoria'', 2023


Honours

* Alvin Balkind Curator's Prize, 2013


References

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