Exhibition Tours
Ongoing
Get a deeper look at the artworks on view by joining an expert-led tour.
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Installation view: Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, September 10, 2025–July 12, 2026. Photo by Daria Lugina.
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Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Upcoming Events
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Select Wednesdays, Sundays, and Free First ThursdaysExhibition Tour: Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing
Graduate students offer exhibition tours on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.
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Thursday, August 6, 12 PMCurators' Tour: Elaine Yau and Tausif Noor on Some Particular Heaven
Curators Elaine Yau and Tausif Noor lead visitors through the exhibition, discussing how ideas of utopia have been tied to themes of redemption, transcendence, design, and social justice across cultures and history.
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Wednesday, August 26, 12:15 PMExhibition Tour: Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection
Exhibition curators Tausif Noor and Elaine Yau guide visitors through the themes of the exhibition, Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection, highlighting how artists drew from spiritual, intellectual, and philosophical traditions to explore utopian ideas in their artworks.
Past Events
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Select Wednesdays, Sundays, and Free First ThursdaysExhibition Tour: Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing
Graduate students offer exhibition tours on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.
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Sunday, June 7, 2 PMCurator’s Tour: Omar Jason Farah on Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing
Join Curatorial Assistant Omar Jason Farah as they delve into the history of Hassinger's practice across her material experiments in sculpture, her long-standing engagement with movement and performance, and her work with the moving image.
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Sunday, April 12, 2 PMEducator’s Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings
For visitors curious about the work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and wishing for guidance on the potentially challenging contemporary modes that characterize her practice, BAMPFA Education Director Sherry Goodman offers an exhibition tour that grounds Cha’s artwork in fundamentals of Conceptual art, performance art, and video.
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Wednesday, March 25, 12:15 PM; Wednesday, April 8, 12:15 PM; Thursday, May 7, 1:15 PMCurator's Tour: Tausif Noor on Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection
Curatorial Associate Tausif Noor guides viewers through the themes of the exhibition.
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Wednesday, March 11, 12:15 PM
Curators' Tour: Margot Norton and Tausif Noor on Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection
Chief Curator Margot Norton and Curatorial Associate Tausif Noor discuss works in the exhibition and the close relationship between Rena Rosenwasser and Penny Cooper and many of the artists in their collection.
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Select Wednesdays, Sundays, and Free First ThursdaysExhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings
Graduate students from the departments of Art History, English, and Ethnic Studies offer tours of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and First First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.
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Wednesday, February 4, 12 PMCurators' Tour: Victoria Sung and Tausif Noor on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings
Exhibition curators Victoria Sung and Tausif Noor invite visitors to walk through the exhibition together as they underscore the multilingual, multisensory, and multivalent strategies at play across Cha’s oeuvre.
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Select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Saturdays at 2 PM, and Sundays at 2 PMExhibition Tour: Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection
Graduate students from the Departments of History of Art and Film & Media offer tours of Object Oriented on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Saturdays at 2 PM, and Sundays at 2 PM.