Octubre 2015 - Marzo 2016

Curators

Nydia Gutiérrez Artistic director Venezuela

Born in Venezuela and based in Medellín, Nydia is an arquitect from the Pontifical Xavierian University (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana) in Bogotá, Colombia. She is also a museologist from the JKF University in San Franciso, U.S. She is the former chief of curators of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas. She teaches in the Master program of Museology at the National University of Bogotá, Colombia. She has been a curator and museological advisor in some events such as the XIII Meeting of Young Artists with FIA-Caracas; mentor of the 13th Regional Art Exhibition of Colombia, eastern…

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Tony Evanko Local curator United States

Tony is an American artist and arquitect based in Medellín. Since 2006, he has been the director of the Casa Tres Patios Foundation, a contemporary art center in Medellín devoted to experimentation, new artistic proposals and alternative pedagogies. He teaches at the faculty or Arts at the University of Antioquia. He has also taught at the University of Fine Arts in Medellín and the faculty of architecture at the University of New Mexico in the United States. Between 2010 and 2012, he was the representative of the area of New Media in the Visual Arts Council for the Culture Council…

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Fernando Escobar National curator Colombia

Fernando is a Colombian artist and researcher. From his interdisciplinary training in visual arts and social sciences, he has approached several subjects related to contemporary artistic practices, urban cultural practices, folk art, communities and participation from artistic practices. He has co-curated the following exhibitions: ExSitu-InSitu. Moravia, artistic practices in community (Medellín, 2008-2011); Transmissions. 12 Regional Meetings of Artists, central area (Cundinamarca and Boyacá, 2007); the VIII Art Biennial of the Modern Art Museum of Bogotá (2002); and Stumble (Bogotá, 2001). He was also the curatorial coordinator of the exhibition Body, Art, Nature. Contemporary Art in outer spaces at the Botanical…

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Sharon Lerner International curator Perú

Sharon is a Peruvian curator of contemporary art at the Lima Art Museum. She was invited by the Goethe-Institut as the only research scholar from Latin America to join the educational team of documenta 12 Kassel, Germany (2007). Along with the curators Xiaoyu Weng and Michele Fiedler, Sharon obtained a grant from Southern Exposure to develop Mission Afterviews, a project going through the stories and architectural transformations of abandoned movie theaters in the Mission District, San Francisco, U.S. (2010), and the 101 Curatorial Fellowship of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. During that time she worked as a researcher for…

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Edi Muka International curator Albania

Edi is an Albanian art critic and curator. He has been commissioning temporary projects at the Public Art Agency in Sweden since 2014. Previously, between 2009 and 2014, he was the curator of Roda Sten konsthall in Gothenburg. Along with Stina Edblom, he worked as artistic director for the Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art in 2013. He is one of the founders and directors of the Tirana International Contemporary Art Biennial as well as the acting director and commissioner of TICA, the Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art. TICA is an independent platform for research and production of contemporary art.…

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