Melbourne Art Fair Appoints Rachel Ciesla as Curator of VIDEO 2025
Melbourne Art Fair is thrilled to announce the appointment of Rachel Ciesla as Curator of VIDEO for the 18th edition of Melbourne Art Fair, returning in 2025.
VIDEO offers a dynamic presentation of thought-provoking and highly collectible contemporary works in moving-image art, featuring emerging and established artists from around the world.
VIDEO at Melbourne Art Fair 2024. Photo: Griffin Simm.
Rachel Ciesla is the Senior Curator for The Art Gallery of Western Australia’s Simon Lee Foundation Institute of Contemporary Asian Art in Boorloo (Perth). She has curated and co-curated exhibitions, including Look, look. Anna Park (2024), Ayoung Kim: Delivery Dancer’s Sphere (2024), Daisuke Kosugi: Invisible Touch (2024), Me: Also me: (2024), Özgür Kar: GOOD NIGHT (2023), Farah Al Qasimi: Star Machine (2023), Art Display (2023), I have not loved (enough or worked) (2022), Wong Ping: puberty (2022), Kawita Vatanajyankur and Pat Pataranutaporn: Mental Machine (2022), Stanislava Pinchuk: Archaeology of Loss (2021), Leyla Stevens: Dua Dunia (2021), and BODIED (2020). She has published on the work of contemporary artists including Salman Toor, Anna Park, Farah Al Qasimi, Jack Ball, Stanislava Pinchuk and Leyla Stevens.
The now annual Melbourne Art Fair returns in the Victorian summer, 20 – 23 February 2025 at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre. Tickets on sale and galleries announced 1 October.
