A Tale of Today: Materialities Member Reception and Program

Friday, February 7, 2025

Registration is now closed. If you are a member and want to attend, please contact membership@driehausmuseum.org.

To celebrate the opening of A Tale of Today: Materialities, we invite our members to join us for an enlightening conversation between Executive Director Lisa M. Key and guest curator Dr. Giovanni Aloi. Together they will discuss the genesis of the idea for the exhibition and how this exceptional group of artists responded to it.

The program will be followed by a reception. Join us to raise a glass!

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About the Speaker:

Giovanni Aloi is an author, curator, educator, and maker specializing in the histories of art and politics of aesthetics in representations of nature in art. He’s the founder and Editor in Chief of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture and US Correspondent for Esse Magazine – Art + Opinion. Aloi is co-editor of the University of Minnesota series ‘Art after Nature’, and has authored four books including Why Look at Plants? - The Vegetal World in Contemporary Art (2019), Lucian Freud – Herbarium (2019) and the forthcoming Vegetal Entwinements (2023) co-edited with Michael Marder, Estado Vegetal (2023), Botanical Revolutions (2025), and Lawn (2025). He lectures at museums and universities internationally and has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at Queen Mary University of London, Goldsmiths, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London and New York. He received his Ph.D. in natural history and contemporary art from Goldsmiths University of London and has worked as an educator at Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Galleries.