Practitioners In Conversation Ep.5: Bookshopery

Hello listeners. In todays episode of the David Krut Podcast Nathalie Viruly continues her conversation with David Krut. She and David Krut discuss her masters research on book shops, exploring what such places are and what they could be. 

Nathalie Viruly is a curator and art writer based in Cape Town. With a thorough knowledge of South African and international art contexts, Viruly works closely with artists to expand formats of exhibition production. Viruly holds an MA in Curating Art, Law and Management from Stockholm University and an Honours in Curating and Political Science from the University of Cape Town. She has held institutional roles such as Research Associate at Moderna Museet (Stockholm) and spearheaded collective projects like The Centre for the Fictitious Ante Facto (Stockholm), Bad Federation (Ireland/Stockholm), Gallery-De-Move-On (Cape Town) and Via Wax Studio (Cape Town). Additionally, she has curated presentations for the Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Accelerator Konsthall (Stockholm), Coulisse Gallery (Stockholm), Nobel Lights (Stockholm), and Silver Museet (Arjeplog). 

Alongside her work toward greater visibility and deep sociality, she has also curated several group exhibitions and mentored local emerging artists. Oscillating between institutions and independent artistic structures, her practice centres on playing with scale, collaboration, public programming, and renegotiating space to write multiple art histories. She maintains her writing practice by generating text for galleries, magazines, books, and online platforms. Recently she co-edited and wrote for the anthology Anatomy of a Cowboy, and published her thesis And And And: The Bookstore as a Situation and Practice From Ulises Carrión to Contemporary Bookshoppery and Happenstance.