AHL Forum: Gyun Hur, Daesup Song, Seongmin Ahn, Timothy Lee
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 | 6 – 8 pm
SFA Projects
131 Chrystie Street
New York, NY 10002
Panelists: Keith Schweitzer, Daniela Kostova
AHL Forum is a professional development program open to all active visual artists of Korean heritage in the United States. The presenting artists will have about 5 minutes to present their work in a lecture format followed by a brief Q and A session.
Even if you are not presenting, please join us! We hope this will be a successful initiative that can benefit the many emerging and underrepresented artists of Korean heritage. Please feel free to contact us at info@ahlfoundation.org with any other questions.
About the Panelists
Keith Schweitzer is owner/Director of SFA Projects, New York. He was also Director of Public Art for Fourth Arts Block, the non-profit leadership organization for Manhattan’s officially designated Cultural District in the East Village. Schweitzer was named as a “Young New York Art Dealer To Watch” by artnet in 2015. He is also Director of Public Art for Fourth Arts Block, the non-profit leadership organization for Manhattan’s officially designated Cultural District in the East Village (Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund Award 2012, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) ArtWorks Award 2013). He was a founding member of No Longer Empty, serving as Director of Exhibitions and Curator from its inception in 2009 through 2011. Working with a focus in New York City for more than 12 years, his high-profile collaborative exhibitions, events and installations frequently combine internationally recognized artists, institutions and organizations with local emerging artists and neighborhood-specific themes.
Daniela Kostova (b.1974 in Sofia) is an interdisciplinary artist who holds M.F.A. from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, NY and the National Art Academy in Sofia. Daniela is interested in comparing and contrasting various cultural models while looking for points of convergence and emerging hybrid forms.
Kostova has exhibited her work at venues such as Queens Museum of Art (NY), Institute for Contemporary Art (Sofia), Kunsthalle Wien (Austria), Antakya Biennale (Turkey), Centre d’art Contemporain (Geneva), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, (Torino) and Kunsthalle Fridericianum (Kassel), among the others. Her work is reviewed in New York Times, Brooklyn Rail, Flash Art International and Art in America.
In 2016 Kostova had a solo show as an A.I.R. Gallery Fellow and was a resident at the Center for Art and Urbanism (ZK/U), Berlin. In 2011, Daniela won the Unlimited Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art. In 2009, 2007 and 2006 she received travel grants from NYFA, the American Foundation for Bulgaria and the European Cultural Foundation. In 2002 she was an ArtsLink Residency fellow at the Cleveland Institute of Art (Ohio).
In addition, Kostova curated the BioArt Initiative–art & science project of the Arts Department and the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at RPI. She is also a co-founder of the Bulgarian Collaborative, interdisciplinary collective that includes artists, musicians, literati and architects.
Kostova lives and works in NYC. Currently she is the Director of Curatorial Projects at Radiator Gallery; Mentor at NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Program and Board Member of CEC ArtsLink exchange program.
