We’re thrilled to return to Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco for our second annual gathering — this time with a special conversation between Pauline Eveillard, founder of Soukra, and Margot Norton, Chief Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). Norton is a leading voice in contemporary art, celebrated for bringing fresh perspectives to the cultural conversation and for championing artists who have historically been overlooked.
Soukra at Fraenkel Gallery
An evening of Art, Design, and Tunisia
Thursday, October 9
6–8 pm | Talk begins promptly at 6:30 pm
49 Geary Street
4th Floor
San Francisco, CA
On view: Peter Hujar: The Gracie Mansion Show Revisited and Katy Grannan: Mad River.
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An evening of Art, Design, and Tunisia:
– Shop curated collections in home décor and fashion from Tunisia
– Savor Tunisian wine and lite bites
– Enjoy a discussion on contemporary artists and designers in Tunisia
– and view Peter Hujar: The Gracie Mansion Show Revisited and Katy Grannan: Mad River.
Margot Norton
Margot Norton is Chief Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), where she leads the curatorial team and oversees the exhibition program. At BAMPFA she curated exhibitions with Gabriel Chaile (2023), Berenice Olmedo (through November 2025), Amol K. Patil (2025; with Victoria Sung), To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection (2024); and the BAMPFA presentation of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection (2024; with Cecilia Alemani). Norton was previously Allen and Lola Goldring Senior Curator at the New Museum, New York, where she curated over forty exhibitions from 2011-23 including recent solo shows with Carmen Argote, Diedrick Brackens, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Wangechi Mutu (with Vivian Crockett), Pepón Osorio, Mika Rottenberg, Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca (with Bernardo Mosqueira), and the 2021 New Museum Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone (with Jamillah James). In 2017, she curated the Sequences Real Time Art Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland, and the Georgian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale with artist Anna K.E.
She regularly contributes to exhibition catalogues and publications and is also co-founder and editorial council member of Museums Moving Forward, an independent, limited-life organization devoted to envisioning and creating a more just museum sector by 2030. She holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from Columbia University, New York.
Pauline Eveillard
Pauline Eveillard is a mission-driven entrepreneur dedicated to celebrating Tunisia’s contemporary designers whose collections are both rooted in heritage and universally appealing. With a background in art history (B.A.,Tufts University), a Fulbright fellowship to Tunisia (2005-2006), and an M.A. in Humanities from the University of Chicago, she brings deep cultural insight to her work.
She is the founder of Soukra, a platform that showcases Tunisian designers through curated collections of home décor, fashion, specialty food, and nourishing skincare. Through Soukra.co, wholesale partnerships, curated in-person events, custom projects, and behind-the-scenes collaborations, Pauline aims to embed contemporary Tunisian design into the broader design and lifestyle landscape. Soukra works closely with Tunisian creatives who collaborate with artisan communities across the country. In her efforts to spotlight Tunisian creativity, she closely follows the work of galleries, artists, curators, specialists, architects and collectors who are actively raising awareness of North Africa’s vibrant art scenes.
Fraenkel Gallery
Since 1979, Fraenkel Gallery has presented almost 400 exhibitions exploring photography and its relation to other media. The gallery exhibits and publishes significant works of art in a variety of media spanning two centuries. We believe that to understand photographs it helps to see them in light of other objects, and vice versa.
The gallery represents the work of Robert Adams, Sophie Calle, Lee Friedlander, Adam Fuss, Nan Goldin, Katy Grannan, Richard Learoyd, Richard Misrach, Nicholas Nixon, Alec Soth, and Hiroshi Sugimoto, and works closely with the estates of Diane Arbus, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Peter Hujar, and Garry Winogrand. In recent years, the gallery has expanded its roster to include multidisciplinary artists such as Elisheva Biernoff, Mel Bochner, Kota Ezawa, Martine Gutierrez, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Christian Marclay, Wardell Milan, Richard T. Walker, and Carrie Mae Weems.
While photography has been a consistent through-line of our exhibitions and more than 70 publications, it is far from the whole story. Many exhibitions have featured artists whose work is not strictly, or not at all, photographic: Mel Bochner, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Agnes Martin, and Sol LeWitt among others.
Fraenkel Gallery maintains long-established relationships with museums, private collectors, and corporations around the world, and welcomes the experienced collector as well as those just beginning.
We hope you’ll join us for this inspiring discussion!
