What, How & for Whom/WHW is a curatorial collective formed in 1999 and is based in Zagreb and Berlin. Its members are Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović. The WHW collective established an international study programme for emerging artists called WHW Akademija in 2018 based in Zagreb and will begin collaborating with a new exhibition space in the city next year. From 2003 to 2023 WHW curated the programme of Gallery Nova, a city-owned gallery in Zagreb.

In 2019–2024, part of the collective (Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović) were artistic directors of Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, and in 2024 they were announced as artistic directors of Skulptur Projekte Münster 2027.

Over the years, WHW has organised production, exhibition, education and publishing projects in various geographical and cultural contexts and on different institutional scales. Their curatorial work is inspired by queer-feminist, anti-fascist and decolonialising ideas with the intention of giving new impulses to aesthetic and ideological debates in the field of contemporary art.

IMMA, Hugh Lane Gallery and Culture Ireland are collaborating on a 3-year pilot named IRELAND INVITES, aimed at showcasing Irish visual art to the international biennale circuit.

IRELAND INVITES seeks to enhance international exposure for Irish visual artists by hosting biennale curators to undertake visits to studio and art institutions in Ireland. During their visit curators will have the opportunity to enhance their understanding of contemporary art practices in Ireland availing of the curatorial expertise of IMMA, Hugh Lane Gallery and Culture Ireland, who will facilitate research and create bespoke hosted trips for each visiting curator.

More details here.

Taking place every 10 years since 1977, Skulptur Projekte is well established as one of the world’s most important exhibitions. Since its conception 50 years ago by the former Director of what is now the LWL Museum of Art and Culture, Dr Klaus Bußmann, the long-standing Artistic Director of the exhibition was Kasper König. The artistic directors of Skulptur Projekte Münster 2027 are curatorial collective What, How and for Whom/WHW; the fifth edition of the project will open in June 2027.

Since 1977, Skulptur Projekte Münster has been facilitating encounters with artistic works in public spaces. The international exhibition was founded by Klaus Bußmann and Kasper König as a reaction to the indignation of the people of Münster about George Rickey’s kinetic sculpture “Three Rotating Squares”, among other things, and has since been jointly supported and organised every ten years by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe and the City of Münster. The LWL Museum of Art and Culture in Münster is the starting point for the exhibition and is commissioned to organise it. The sculpture projects extend across the entire city, with works such as Claes Oldenburg’s “Giant Pool Balls” becoming landmarks and being taken to heart by the population. So far, over 220 artists have accepted the invitation to Münster, including Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Isa Genzken and Ayşe Erkmen. Around 40 works of art were transferred from the temporary exhibitions to the public collection, so that today you can sit on benches by Jenny Holzer, look out over Jorge Pardo’s “Pier” onto the water or visit Nicole Eisenman’s “Sketch for a Fountain” in the Promenade, which the citizens themselves campaigned to preserve.