Denise Jambore
Denise Jambore is a curator, artist and writer based between Singapore and Europe.
She was born in Bucharest, Romania, her great grandmother being the Princess Maria Brancoveanu and her grandmother a descendant of the aristocratic Baleanu - Cantacuzino family.
She spent her youth in Bucharest though later lived in Seoul, Paris, Port-au-Prince (Haiti), Kuala Lumpur and, later on, in Singapore.
“That is why, in the world, we are nothing more than what happens to us to be. A friend, a love, the books, last night’s moon—all these build us. We make ourselves out of our own dispersal. Every human being is their own mess.”
Constantin Noica
Background
CURATORIAL
Since 2002 she has curated over 30 exhibitions as an independent curator (like "Videodanse" for Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris with video works of Mona Hatoum, Merce Cunningham, Jérôme Bel, Isaac Julien, John Baldessari, Julian Schnabel, Charles Atlas, Xavier Le Roy, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla), as Fellow Curator and Researcher of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul (South Korea), as well as Curator of the National Centre of Performance (Bucharest, Romania), or the Haiti proposal at Venice Biennale.
In 2014 she became the Founding Curator of J/P HRO Museum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
ACADEMIC
Her academic activity includes being a board member of the Romanian University College in Port-au-Prince.
She organized, chaired and paneled in international art conferences including the 9th Asian Museum Curators’ Conference in Seoul, Gwangju Biennale International Curators Course and Shanghai Biennale's 'Academy of Reciprocal Enlightenment' conducted by Boris Groys.
PUBLICATIONS
She is the founder of Permanence of Paper art publishing house.
As a writer, she co-authored ‘Jun Yang: The Monograph Project’ with Mami Kataoka, Vasif Kortun, Sunjung Kim and Hu Fang (Jovis Verlag, 2015), authored 'Innocents Abroad' (MMCA Seoul, 2013), curated ‘Razvan Mazilu Oglinzi/Mirrors’– a survey of choreographer's body of work (2010), and extensively published in art magazines such as The Cultural Observer, Time Out, Igloo, Century XXI Magazine, MMCA Magazine. Architecture, Domus, Art+Auction, Vogue and many others.
STUDIES
She holds postgraduate degrees in Art History and Theory from the National Arts University in Bucharest, and in Philosophy from National University in Bucharest, an Academic Excellence Fellowship from the Kyung Hee University in Seoul, as well as postgraduate courses in Art Business from Christie's in London, Curatorial Studies from Gwangju Biennale (South Korea) and an honors certificate in the field of Chinese aristocratic collections from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.