Notes related to Curatorial Projects

The exhibition How many worlds are we? Presented in The Jim Thompson Art Center explores the notion of East and West in traditional and contemporary cultural practices between Amazonas and Southeast Asia.

The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) opens Luz y Fuerza (Light and Strength), an exhibition that brings together nineteen contemporary Argentinean artists whose works revolve around spirituality.

Frame Contemporary Art Finland announced the second open call for the Frame Curatorial Research Fellowship, a five-year program between 2020 and 2024 for contemporary art curators.

The European Cultural Foundation announced a brand-new commissioning grant of up to 500000 EUR to be awarded to one single organization or consortium of partners for the curation and hosting of the European Pavilion 2024.

Melodia is a collective exhibition at Fonte residency featuring a compendium of distinctively composed artworks. Through a variety of processes, techniques, and multidimensional approaches, the exhibition poses the question: What if these diverse works formed a melody?

The President of La Biennale di Venezia, Roberto Cicutto, and the Curator of the 60th International Art Exhibition, Adriano Pedrosa announced the title and theme of the Venice Biennale Arte 2024, which will take place from 20^th April to 24^th November 2024.

Center for Art, Reserch and Alliances (CARA), presents the exhibition And we learn to keep the soil wet, gathering the practices of nine artists engaged with an ethics of intimacy and reciprocity.

Fundación PROA presented a reflection on the myth of "El Dorado" in the American continent, with a selection of works by artists from different countries and times to rethink the impact and meaning of one of the most influential legends in history.

Museo del Barrio annouces Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección, the museum’s most ambitious presentation of its unique, complex and culturally diverse permanent collection in over two decades.

Florencia Portocarrero, curator of the NEXT section at Pinta PArC, opens a space for us on her agenda from Lima to talk about her curatorial work this year. He brings us closer to his vision and his way of approaching this task through sensitivity and openness to dialogue with galleries and their emerging artists. As the director of Bisagra, an independent art collective that she directs together with Miguel A. López, and the artists Andres Pereira Paz, Eliana Otta, Iosu Aramburu and Juan Diego Tobalina, she shares with us her desire to "horizontalize" relationships when thinking and to create an exhibition, an attitude that translates into the moment of curating NEXT.

In this interview, Gredna Landolt, a Peruvian graphic artist and curator, shares with us her work curating the Amazonías section of Pinta PArC 2023, a section that exhibits renowned native artists.

Pinta PArC, Peru Contemporary Art inaugurated its tenth edition. A unique opportunity to discover and explore contemporary art proposals from around the world and, especially, innovative initiatives from the region.

This exhibition at MAC Lima is the result of an invitation to Olinda Silvano [Reshinjabe] and the women's collective Non Shinanbo (Our Inspirations) to rethink and represent the last two years of health, social and political crisis from their concerns, urgencies and desires.

With the recent exhibition by Rosario López, Tapizar el Paisaje, Marli Matsumoto's gallery received and sheltered a strong artistic expression that, through apocalyptic tapestries and photographs of recent industrial history, tells the story of how the landscape is shaped, built or destroyed. In this interview, the founder of the gallery in São Paulo delves into the bases that gave life to the gallery and her interest in providing a space for young artists and experimental contemporary art.

Penumbra Foundation’s new exhibition: Photography in Ink: A Look at Contemporary Copper-Plate Photogravure, displays a group of photogravure prints, which offers viewers the rare opportunity to expand their understanding of material photography.

The Board of La Biennale di Venezia appointed Adriano Pedrosa as Director of the Visual Arts Sector, with the specific task of curating the 60th International Art Exhibition to be held in 2024 (from April 20^th to November 24^th).

Toronto Biennal of Art announced the appointment of Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López as co-curators to guide the exhibition’s third edition, taking place in 2024.

Independent Curators International (ICI) is accepting applications for the 2023 Curatorial Research Fellowships. Application deadline is January 15, 2023.

Curated by Oscar Roldán-Alzate, Solo-Duo is presented as an alternative to the traditional Solo Projects section, favoring contrasts and expanding the depth of dynamics and coexistence. This reinvention represents Pinta’s commitment with the historic and the contemporary, the young and the established, the local and the global.

The exhibition proposes a review of the concepts and imaginaries with which the territories of the Amazon have been represented and covered from a perspective that sought to defend property over it, in order to assert sovereignty for the exploitation of its resources and its inhabitants.

Including works by artists such as Panmela Castro, Antonio Obá, the duo Barbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca as well as Jonathas de Andrade, the exhibitions unpack and update issues brought up in the newspaper "Quilombo", published by Abdias Nascimento from 1948 to 1950.

Curated by El Museo curator Susanna V. Temkin, DOMESTICANX brings together seven intergenerational artists whose practices address the private sphere through works related to healing, spirituality, decoration, and the home.

The Hammer Museum at UCLA presents Joan Didion: What She Means, an exhibition where almost 60 artists seek to portray the iconic author.

apexart invites curators, artists, writers, and creative individuals –regardless of experience or location– to apply to its NYC Open Call from October 1-31, 2022. It is an opportunity to turn a curatorial idea into an exhibition, receiving funding and support to be part of the organization's exhibition programming.

The 35th edition of the São Paulo Biennial, the largest contemporary art exhibition in Latin America, will take place in 2023 and the Fundação Bienal launched the first curatorial text. CHOREOGRAPHIES OF THE IMPOSSIBLE presents the key concepts and ideas.

Americas Society presents TROPICAL IS POLITICAL: CARIBBEAN ART UNDER DE VISITOR ECONOMY REGIME. The exhibition explores the ideas of natural and fiscal paradise, and the geographical coincidence of these concepts within the Caribbean region.

The Museo de Arte de Zapopan presents selected works from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) to explore -and question- the ways contemporary Latin American art and its main exponents are conceived.

The Lowe Art Museum presents BEYOND THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE, a project curated by the Aluna Curatorial Collective that brings together a group of 19 Latin American artist working with sound art and its social intersections.

For the third consecutive year, the Berne-based non-profit organisation art+château its next exhibition of contemporary art in an historic castle. Open until September 25^th, Beyond Baroque is curated by Dr. Valentina Locatelli, with the assistance of Giulia Busetti.

“We live in a world that demands of us clear meanings and pragmatic definitions of things, that wants to possess and that rejects uncertainty. Taking our focus back to poetry allows us to understand that knowing is not synonymous with dominating, but rather with being with, generating interconnectedness and bonding”.