Critical Distance

Critical Distance provides a venue and context for curators and artists in all stages of their professional development. As an independent curator-led initiative, our mission springs from the interests, motivations and methodologies of contemporary curatorial practice, foregrounding critical inquiry, collaboration, and experimentation in making new connections between artists, art forms, ideas, images, objects, environments, and audiences. Through our exhibitions and events, we seek to stimulate curiosity, conversation, and critical thinking on contemporary culture and the curation/creation of exhibitions themselves through the lenses of collecting, organizing, displaying, and viewing or experiencing. Through our publishing program, each exhibition is fully documented in a modest yet beautifully designed catalogue with original curatorial essay — a welcome benefit and service to the artists and curators whose work is published, as well as to audiences who receive reader-friendly context on the work and exhibition. Through an inclusive and varied program of events including both kid– and adult-friendly talks, screenings, workshops, performances and more, we aim to enrich the exhibition experience and encourage active audience participation in our projects and programming. In supporting and collaborating with curators, artists, organizations, and audiences, Critical Distance advances topical, outward-looking, forward-thinking, and visually/conceptually compelling projects in a space that is welcoming, unintimidating, and accessible for all. Our unique model of providing support for curatorial practice and inquiry while fostering risk-taking and experimentation encourages participants to consider new approaches to the display and dissemination of art, ideas, and critical discourses on the intersections between curating and contemporary issues.