Reine's Notebook

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Tate Young Patron

Thank you Tate for featuring me as one of the museum’s Young Patron.

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Captain Smith’s Maps of Virginia and New England or the Shift from a Collaborative to a Colonizing Endeavor in Imperial England

Captain Smith’s Maps of Virginia and New England or the Shift from a Collaborative to a Colonizing Endeavor in Imperial England

‘Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.’ – James Baldwin

In the wake of George Floyd’s death and the worldwide uprising prompting urgent conversations to end systemic racism, the need to decolonize our knowledge has become clear. It can therefore help to understand how the discourse is initially colonized. In visual terms, representation…

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The Massacre of an Innocent

The Massacre of an Innocent

The troubling topicality of Poussin’s painting

First published on Medium on June 8, 2020

A few months ago — a lifetime ago — I went to the Musée Condé in Chantilly. From Raphael to Clouet, from Fra Angelico to Antoine Watteau, the museum is brimming with masterpieces. Yet, I was specifically going to see one of them: the Massacre des Innocents by Nicolas Poussin. I did not expect that…

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5 Ways to Look Out of Your Window

5 Ways to Look Out of Your Window

J. Vermeer, View of Delft, 1660-61, oil on canvas, 96.5 cm × 115.7 cm, Mauritshuis, The Hague

In these times of lockdown and stillness, our destinations remain the same: the living room, the kitchen or the bathroom. Yet, Henry Miller was onto something when he said, “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” We are indeed seeing these familiar places differently,…

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A Private Cultural Tour of Europe

A Private Cultural Tour of Europe

With half the world confined, cultural institutions have brought an unprecedented offering online. I have shared a selection of events with Beauty and Well-Being.

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Musee Transitoire - Paris

Musee Transitoire – Paris

From October 10th to 31st, the Musee Transitoire founded by Romina Shama held its inaugural exhibition «I would prefer not to» in Paris in a disaffected garage.

Romina Shama was joined by sound artist Amandine Casadamont as the curators of this first exhibition. The title of this first exhibit, «I would prefer not to», evokes Bartleby, the enigmatic character from Melville’s eponymous short…

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About

Reine Okuliar co-founded Galerie E.G.P in 2009, a contemporary art gallery based in her native city Paris. Under her watch, Galerie E.G.P opened offices in London that Reine transferred to New York in September 2014.

A qualified lawyer in France and England, Reine is currently studying at the Courtauld Institute in London.

She is a freelance curator with over 40 exhibitions organised around the…

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Paris Photo - Los Angeles - 2015

Paris Photo – Los Angeles – 2015

Solo presentation of Rachel Rom

Paris Photo Los Angeles, 2015

Curated by Reine Okuliar

Press

Wallpaper, Paris Photo Los Angeles takes over the sets at Paramount Pictures Studios, Stephanie Murg, May 5, 2015

Don’t Take Pictures, Unconventional International Photography at Paris Photo LA, Dan Shepherd, May 6, 2015

Beaux Arts Magazine, Paris Photo, nouvelle étoile hollywoodienne, Lucie Delubac, p.…

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Be my Guest - Paris - 2014

Be my Guest – Paris – 2014

  ‘Be my Guest’

Group Exhibition

Installation view with: Arianne Foks, Nicholas Portalupi, London International Exploration Society (L.I.E.S).

Photo: Andreas B. Krueger

Curated by Reine Okuliar

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Rachel Rom - Paris - 2013

Rachel Rom – Paris – 2013

  Rachel Rom

Galerie E.G.P, Paris

2013

Curated by Reine Okuliar

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Permutation - London - 2013

Permutation – London – 2013

Permutation

Solo exhibition by Nicholas Portalupi

London, 2013

Curated by Reine Okuliar

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(e)merge - Washington, D.C., USA - 2011

(e)merge – Washington, D.C., USA – 2011

Oliver Bragg, Hello, how are you, mixed media and sound, 2009

(e)merge Art Fair

Washington, D.C.

2011

Curated by Reine Okuliar

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The Super Collider Will Eat Your Brain - Paris - 2012

The Super Collider Will Eat Your Brain – Paris – 2012

The Super Collider Will Eat Your Brain

Solo Exhibition – Oliver Bragg

Paris, 2012

Winner of the Arte Prize

Curated by Reine Okuliar

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Dreams in Black and White - New York - 2010

Dreams in Black and White – New York – 2010

  Lucien Aigner, Brassaï, Guy Bourdin, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Irina Ionesco, Sudek, Wols

Norwood Club, New York

March 2010

Curated by Reine Okuliar

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Matsutani

      Solo Exhibition of Takesada Matsutani

at Galerie E.G.P, Paris.

Fall 2009.

Curated by Reine Okuliar.

Catalogue texts by Reine Okuliar.

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The Richelieu Laboratory

An off-site project of the Whitechapel Gallery, London

The Richelieu Laboratory is the first phase of a two year project which brought together artists and architects with residents, associations, local arts organisations, politicians, anthropologists, horticulturalists and landscape architects to explore the vision for the Richelieu Biennale.

Guiding principles were drawn up for socially engaged…

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The Social Value of Private Initiatives and Museums

The Social Value of Private Initiatives and Museums

On June 5th, 2017 I went to the talk organized at the Delfina Foundation. The panelists were Lu Xun, founder of Sifang Parkland in Nanjing, China, and Luba Michailova, founder IZOLYATSIA,  Ukraine. The talk was part of the larger public programme of the foundation called Collecting as Practice. If it has become a usual practice for artists to go to residences worldwide, it is a pioneering venture…

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