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Curator Talk: Eva Respini | Future Geographies

Thu Jul 23, 2026 | 6:30–8 PM

Room 4East
Two photos side by side. On the left is a black-and-white headshot of Eva Respini, a woman with shoulder length brown hair and bangs. She is wearing a black shirt and has her hands in front of her. On the right is a photo of a Gallery room featuring a large whale skeleton made out of white plastic chairs. There are people in the room looking up in awe at the work. On the floor, there is another installation that recalls the ocean made up of painted blue plastic bottles.

[From left to right] Eva Respini; Brian Jungen, Cetology, 2002, and Liz Larner, Meerschaum Drift (Blue), 2020–21, at the Member Opening of Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change, May 2026, Photos: Vancouver Art Gallery

Imagining with Artists in the Century of Climate Change

Join Eva Respini, Interim Co-CEO & Curator at Large at the Vancouver Art Gallery, for a behind-the-scenes look at Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change.

This talk will introduce the exhibition’s central themes and curatorial vision, examining how contemporary artists respond to our shared future on this planet.

Respini will focus on the making of this exhibition, sharing her research, collaboration and curatorial thinking behind the exhibition, and how the project evolved from concept to realization.

Free for Circles of Giving and Experiences Members, $5 for Ideas Members and $10 for Access Pass Holders and the general public.

Capacity is limited. Registration is required.

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If cost is a barrier to you or if you have any access requests for this event, please reach out to learn@vanartgallery.bc.ca or call 604 662 4700.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Eva Respini is a renowned curator and arts leader and Interim Co-CEO & Curator at Large at the Vancouver Art Gallery. She served as the curator and co-commissioner for the 2022 US Pavilion’s presentation of Simone Leigh at the Venice Biennale. Respini was Deputy Director and Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (ICA/Boston) from 2015 to 2023. Prior to her tenure at the ICA/Boston, she served as Curator at the Museum of Modern Art for more than a decade in the department of photography, where she curated numerous acclaimed exhibitions of contemporary art and photography. Respini has been a visiting lecturer, critic and speaker at a number of universities, including a seminar on curatorial practice at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. She has published numerous books and catalogues, and her writing appears in museum publications and periodicals.