CURATOR · DIRECTOR · WRITER · ADVISOR

R A C H A E L ~ V A N C E

20+ YEARS Contemporary Art


AUSTRALIA / EUROPE / ASIA

International practice


INDEPENDENT · INTERNATIONAL · CONNECTED

Contemporary art through curatorial thinking, strategic insight and long-term relationships.


CURATORIAL

Research · Exhibitions · Writing · Projects


ADVISORY

Collections · Acquisitions · Strategy


CULTURAL PARTNERSHIPS

Artists · Institutions · Foundations


CONNECTING WORLDS

Commercial + institutional

Local + international

Artists + collectors

Ideas + audiences


PUBLIC / PRIVATE

Institutions · Galleries · Collections · Foundations

Photo: Dan Soderstrom

Selected Projects



Transfer
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Guest Curator

The University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery, Sippy Downs, Australia

May 16 – August 3, 2025


Artists
Arahmaiani (ID), Cian Dayrit (PH), Patricia Perez Eustaquio (PH), Yee I-Lann (MY), Mella Jaarsma (ID), Eko Nugroho (ID), Moe Satt (MM), Jakkai Siributr (TH).


Transfer centred on contemporary visual artists with connections to Southeast Asia who explored textiles as a medium. Spanning embroidery, stitching, sculptural installations, film, wall-based works, performance, and participatory pieces, the exhibition showcased a proliferation of textile and fibre art practices that reinterpreted cultural heritage through a contemporary lens at the intersection of art and life.

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The ARNDT Collection: From One World to Another
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Guest Curator
Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), Shepparton, Australia

November 11, 2023 – March 10, 2024


Artists

Del Kathryn Barton, Joseph Beuys, Kwesi Botchway, Sophie Calle, Joe Colombo, Lippo d’Andrea, Johnson Eziefula, Rainer Fetting, Zaachariaha Fielding, Gilbert & George, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jitish Kallat, Alicja Kwade, Tahnee Lonsdale, Heinz Mack, David Noonan, Pablo Picasso, Sigmar Polke, Ben Quilty, Julian Rosefeldt, Gareth Sansom, Rodel Tapaya, Zandile Tshabalala, Xiyao Wang, Ambera Wellmann, Franz West.


Presenting over 40 artworks from renowned international and Australian artists, The ARNDT Collection: From One World to Another is a major exhibition that celebrates the pursuit of art collecting through a selection of treasures from the extensive private collection of Matthias Arndt and Tiffany Wood. 

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Brook Andrew: Denkmal
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Curator

Australian Embassy Berlin, Germany

December 5 2018 - February 15, 2019


A solo presentation of works by internationally acclaimed Australian visual artist Brook Andrew whose interdisciplinary artistic practice draws upon new and historical forms, images and texts that conflate archival sources, cultural markers, ethnographic records, found objects and ephemera from different time periods that conjure alternative timelines. Entitled “Denkmal”, translated from German as meaning “memorial” or “monument”, the exhibition responded directly to the artist’s ambitious Federal Government Australian Research Council grant research project titled “Representation, Remembrance and the Memorial” that investigates the lack of indigenous memorials within Australia that respond to Aboriginal loss and the frontier wars.

Paul Yore: PATRIOT
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Guest Curator

Michael Reid Gallery, Berlin, Germany

20 Nov - 19 Dec 2020


For this solo presentation in Germany, Yore brought together quilted textiles, a suite of four needlepoint pieces and a spectacular suspended soft sculpture. Across the various fabric surfaces Yore’s cacophony of loaded visuals, emblems and texts embedded within the compositions speak directly to national discourse and and identity with the inclusion of the map of Australia.

Jeppe Hein: Share you perspectives
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The Artbarn Art Space, Cape Schanck, Australia

November 4, 2023 - February 9, 2024


Solo presentation of sculptural works in Australia by internationally acclaimed Danish, Berlin-based artist Jeppe Hein within The Artbarn Art Space, showcasing a selection of pieces from the artist’s key artwork series’ that include Hein’s coloured Mirrored Balloons and appellative neon texts glowing behind two-way mirrors. This survey of works continued outside in the natural environment with a curation of large-scale outdoor sculptures from the artist's Modified Social Benches pieces staged throughout the property in Cape Schanck, Australia.

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Del Kathryn Barton: of her own nature
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Arndt Art Agency at Cromwell Place, London, United Kingdom

May 23 – June 4, 2023


Solo exhibition comprising a new suite of major large-scale paintings alongside a curated selection of prints and the artist’s animated film “The Nightingale and the Rose” (2015)—a remarkable adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 19th century classic.

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Selected Published Work


Laure Prouvost - Sleek Magazine #53
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Follow Me Down

Artist Interview


Camille Henrot - Sleek Magazine #46
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Order From Chaos

Artist Interview


Louise Bourgeois - Objektiv
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Picture Perfect part II Issue

Exhibition review: "The Empty House" (2018), the Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany



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Tacita Dean - Sleek Magazine #52
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Messages & Mediums

Artist interview


Gillian Wearing - Ocula Magazine
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Artist Interview


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Prazzle Arts
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The Art World, According to Women: 10 Voices on What Still Needs to Change


SBS German
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Rachael Vance spoke with SBS German correspondent Daniel Salg in Berlin about her move to Germany's capital.

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