About Lara
Lara Pan is an independent curator, writer and researcher. Her fields of interest include art, science, technology, sound, architecture, and paranormal phenomena, with a focus on interdisciplinary projects that explore the intersections between these topics. The relationships she establishes between these varied disciplines aim to go beyond their limits and propose new realms of thought. Driven by a futuristic desire, her research is nonetheless nourished by an in-depth study of the histories of art, science, and philosophy.
She began her career working with the landmark SKC Gallery (Belgrade), which presented conceptual and new media art in spite of the instability of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990’s and the early 2000’s. In Paris she founded The New Art Project in 2005, a curatorial platform that worked with a diversity of ideas connecting art and community on a global level through art fairs, biennales, and independent art spaces and private collections. From 2016-2019, she was Director of Development and Programming at WhiteBox, a non profit art space in New York known for its experimental underground film and sound programming.
She has curated numerous exhibitions in major art institutions, galleries, and nonprofits internationally. Major exhibitions include Wim Delvoye’s “Torre,” a monumental architectural installation at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum during the Venice Biennale 2009; Carolee Schneemann, “From Then and Beyond,” (Kunsthalle Winterthur, 2019), and Tony Oursler, “Experimentum Crucis'' (Match Gallery/Metni Muzej of MGML, Ljubljana, 2020).
Lara Pan curated the critically-acclaimed exhibition “When the Fairytale Never Ends” (57W57, 2011), reviewed in the NYTimes by Linda Yablonsky, followed by “The Wizard’s Chamber” (Kunsthalle Winterthur, 2014), a group show focused on abstraction which finds an imaginary language between art and science, including Trevor Paglen, Samson Young, Katie Paterson, and OtavioSchipper, among others. For Roselee Goldberg’s Performa 09, she curated Pandora’s Sound Box, an installation of sound works addressing contemporary concerns about war, terrorism, and immigration. She is currently working on interdisciplinary collaborations with artists Luciano Chessa, Franck Vigroux, and Matthew Emmett.
Her writing has appeared in EIKON, WhiteHot Magazine, ArtPulse, and Musée Magazine. Her collection of intimate interviews with Carolee Schneemann, From Then and Beyond, will be released Fall 2022, in collaboration with Kunsthalle Winterthur and published by Verlag für Moderne Kunst.
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