Binna Choi

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Binna Choi is a curator and educator born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, making a home in the Netherlands for the last two decades as well. She has served as the director at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, Utrecht (2008-2023) and currently as the curatorial advisor under its Cooperative Committee. Under her directorship at Casco, it has been exploring the commons as an alternative to binary worldviews and systems through and for art, taking it for their organizing principle. Her key curatorial-collaborative projects at Casco include Grand Domestic Revolution (2009–2012), Site for Unlearning (Art Organization) (2014–2018), Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills (2018–ongoing), alongside engagement with networks like Arts Collaboratory and Cluster. Choi served as co-artistic director for Singapore Biennale 2022, named Natasha, and curator for the 11th Gwangju Biennale, titled The Eighth Climate (What does art do?). As a member of Academy of the Arts of the World in Cologne, Germany, she curated the exhibition project Gwangju Lessons (2020), which travelled to the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea.