PAST COLLABORATORS

Iben Bach Elmstrøm

  • Iben Bach Elmstrøm is an independent curator, based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths University (2014). Iben is working with a range of contemporary art and curatorial projects, often researched in relation to site specificity, political imaginaries and questioning. Recently she curated the exhibition ‘The Object is To Change The Soul’ in Egeskov Renessaisance garden at Heartland Festival, an exhibition responding to ideas between the Renessaisance philosophy of individualism and contemporary individulistic working life culture. Ars Memoria a large exhibition showing works by Danish artists Helene Nymann at ‘The Round Tower’ in Copenhagen - a historic star observatory from 1642. The exhibition is concerned with ancient mnemonics and cosmic speculations developed by philosopher Giordano Bruno.The exhibition combines contemporary artistic expression with ancient thoughts and ideas, by operating between past and future encyclopaedic systems, body and brain, technology and science.

Irene Campolmi

  • Irene Campolmi is an Italian Copenhagen-based curator and researcher currently working on exhibitions and curatorial projects that explore notions of ecology, ethics, postcolonial, queer and feminism. In 2019, she will curate solo shows of Jesper Just at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen and MAAT Lisbon; Basim Magdy at MAAT Lisbon; and Kris Lemsalu as part of the 58th Venice Biennial Estonian Pavilion. Her curated projects include “#whatif” (2018) at Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), which reflected on radical socio-political projects of our contemporary society; and Code Art Fair Artistic Program “Art Reacts” (2017) reflecting how artistic and curatorial practice reacts to socio-political events proposing new ways to inhabit the world; and "Performing Identities" (2108) on the body as a territory to define political identity. Irene was a PhD Fellow & Researcher at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (2013-2016). Currently, she is completing a PhD thesis on the ethics of curating. She worked as a researcher for the Max Planck Institute- Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florence.

Danny Baez

  • Danny Baez collaborated with CPR in Public Relations. He is a Cultural Curator and Arts & Crafts Professional originally from Quisqueya and now living and working in the greater New York Area. A former student of Advertising at UNAPEC and Printmaker at LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies (Columbia University), Mr. Baez has been dedicated to the Art business for the past seven years under the tutelage of renowned Thai Contemporary artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, and New York via London Art Dealer Gavin Brown, serving as a Studio/Art assistant for the former and currently as a Gallery assistant for the latter. Over the past two years, Mr. Baez has also represented Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at multiple art fairs around South and North America as a Sales Associate with emphasis on the Latin American Market, allowing him to create an extended network within the demanding and competitive art world while connecting different artists with collectors, galleries and projects. Danny Baez is also the Co-Founder of the NYC-based Creative Hub known as DIP-STERS, a collaborator (and soon to be board member) of the ARTNOIR Collective, and a contributor for REMEZCLA, the leading English-language culture and lifestyle outlet for Latino millennials. Mr. Baez is an art enthusiast and lover who strives to keep learning and hopefully share his knowledge with those who share his passion for the wonderful and occasionally misunderstood field of the Arts.

Maria Vittoria Di Sabatino

  • Maria Vittoria Di Sabatino was intern at CPR (2017). She recently graduated with a BA in art history and design at John Cabot University. Her educational background has left her with a striving passion for contemporary art and visual culture. Based in Rome, Italy, she works as an assistant archivist at the Archivio Giulio Turcato in addition to following independent curatorial projects. She wrote her senior thesis on Process-based Art, with a focus on Italian artist Lara Favaretto. Now, she is going to publish her research on Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA) and turn her research into a series of digital and physical exhibitions.

Agnese Pundiņa

  • Agnese Pundiņa was intern at CPR (2017). She is a Latvian art critic currently living in Tallinn, Estonia. She completed her MA in Art History at the Art Academy of Latvia in 2017. Her final thesis was titled, “Depiction of Social Issues in Latvian and Estonian Contemporary Art”, which was a continuation of her bachelor’s thesis written in 2015 titled, “Social Issues in Latvian Contemporary Art”. The main focus in both works is the identification of social issues in Latvian and Estonian contemporary art and the analysis of these depictions in both countries. Since 2016, she has been writing exhibition reviews for art and culture website Arterritory.com. While her work is mainly as a writer and critic, she has also curated exhibitions, including “Freedom on Barricades” (Riga, 2014), and “Kate/Coating” (Tallinn, 2016). In 2013, she was curator-in-residence at “Radošo darbu galerija” (Riga). Her main interests are connected to social issues, identity, gender studies, feminism and queer theories in Baltic contemporary art.

Emily Crain López

  • Emily Crain López was CPR Director of Development (2017-2018). Crain López is a human rights activist and writer based out of Washington, DC. She has a B.A. in Peace Studies and Sociology from Chapman University in Southern California, and an M.S. in International Development with a specialization in Gender from New York University. She is originally from California and has done human rights work and research around the globe in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Her work focuses on the intersection of feminism, gender politics and development. Emily is passionate about advancing opportunities for access to education, art, and culture on a global scale. She spent time working with non-profits in South Africa and Nicaragua, dedicating time with after school programs that promote art, music and leadership skills. She worked as a Program Manager at an International Labor Rights non-profit in New York City that implements an international human rights standard for the workplace.

Amaryllis Zachariadou

  • Amaryllis Zachariadou is an intern at CPR. Originally from Athens, Zachariadou is a Barcelona-based artist and curator. Her practice is a combination of elements from her artistic, theoretical and managerial background. She holds a BA in Performing arts, an MA in Arts and Cultural Management and has completed a course on Contemporary Art and Politics in the Valand Academy of the University of Gothenburg. Zachariadou has worked, among others, at the National Theatre of Greece, the Mies van Der Rohe Foundation, and the Fundació Antoni Tàpies and Cordova Gallery. Her upcoming project investigates the relationship between landscape, memory and the amorphous beauty of found objects in villages of the Spanish north.

Clara Prat-Gay

  • Clara Prat-Gay is a cultural manager and art curator from Argentina, with different working experiences in art galleries, art fairs and museums. She completed her undergraduate degree in Humanities at Universidad de San Andres (Buenos Aires) and will be starting her MA in Curatorial Studies at CCS Bard College (New York). Her research interests and curatorial projects are mostly related to the examination of institutional and alternative spaces and how these have come to develop a deep questioning bearing the Anthropocene overtake, extending the debate to an ecological level. She is comitted to curatorial projects that can help to drop human subjectivity and rethink the history of humanity from a postcolonial, post anthropocentric and post-human perspective. Clara was CPR’s curatorial intern during Summer 2022, working on CPR’s website, programming, and assisted setting up the new space, CPR2, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Jóhan Martin Christiansen

  • Jóhan Martin Christiansen is a visual artist working and living in Copenhagen, Denmark and Tórshavn, the Faroe Islands. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Malmö Art Academy (2014). He works mainly with sculpture and video examining the relations between subjects such as materiality, tactility, nature, body, history and poetry.

Sandi Hilal

  • In the last ten years, from Palestine, Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti have developed a research-project based artistic practice that is both theoretically ambitious and practically engaged in the struggle for justice and equality. They founded Campus in Camps, an experimental educational program hosted in Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem with the aims to overcome conventional educational structures by creating a space for critical and grounded knowledge production connected to greater transformations and the democratization of society. Camus in Camps has today offshoot in other Palestinian camps and is linked in a consortium with universities around the world.

Juha Huuskonen

  • Juha Huuskonen is the Director of HIAP - Helsinki International Artist Programme since year 2014. HIAP was founded in 1998 and annually hosts residencies for approximately 70 international artists and curators. HIAP also runs a programme of events and exhibitions in collaboration with various local arts organisations. Prior to working at HIAP, Juha was the co-founder and Programme Director of Pixelache Festival (2002-2011) and initiator of the international Pixelache Network with partner festivals Sweden, Norway, France, Colombia, Turkey and Senegal. He has curated programme for festivals and exhibitions such as DMY Berlin MakerLab (Berlin, Germany), Etoiles Polaires Festival (Ghent, Belgium), Picture House Exhibition (Belsay Hall, UK), Mediawala Festival (New Delhi, India), Interferenze Festival (San Martino Valle Caudina, Italy) and ISEA 2006 (San Jose, US). He has also acted as a jury member for various awards and committees such as Next Helsinki Competition, Transmediale Festival Award, Japan Foundation Performing Arts Committee, Nordic Culture Point Expert Committee and Arts Council of Finland Media Art Committee.

Hanna Isaksson

  • Hanna Isaksson is Director at ArtNorth - Norrbotten Contemporary Art Development Center. Hanna is based in Luleå, Sweden, since 2016. She has previously worked as the CEO at the National Artis’t Organization and Marketing director/Exhibition coordinator at Havremagasinet International Art Gallery. ArtNorth works to strengthen the professional art scene in northern Sweden by creating exhibition possibilities, facilitating commissions as well as organizing education programs for contemporary artists and professional craft makers. ArtNorth is currently building a new Artist-in-Residence program called Swedish Lapland AiR that will be launched in 2018.

Ina Otzko

  • Ina Otzko is a visual artist and independent curator based in Norway and Italy. She holds a dual Master’s from the Image and Communication and Fine Art programs at Goldsmiths College in London and an additional Master’s degree in experimental Sound Studies from Berlin University of Arts, UdK. Otzko is co-initiator and director of ABH/ ArtBase Helgeland 66°N and its international AiR exchange program, curates exhibitions and public art projects and is art consultant for KORO (Public Art Norway). She was part of the work-team establishing the artist-run gallery Grimmuseum in Berlin in 2010, including curating the group show What will the future bring? In 2015 and 2016 she organized two grafitti projects in the harbour area of Sandnessjøen in North-Norway, a project that is continuing and commissioning new projects. She is chairwoman for NNBK / The Association of North Norwegian Visual Artists since 2015 and member of the Artistic Advisory Board of LIAF / Lofoten International Art Festival since 2012. She is co-initiator of the AiR exchange program NOR-ICE, a collaboration between SIM (Iceland), NNBK and NNKS / North Norwegian Art Centre (North-Norway). Recently she initiated the project 100 NORWEGIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS and is currently organizing the one hundred days long project, presenting one new Norwegian contemporary photographer every day, ending April 20th 2018. The project aims to promote Norwegian contemporary photography and photographers for a national and international audience.

Edda K. Sigurjónsdóttir

  • Edda K. Sigurjónsdóttir (b. 1978, Reykjavík) has experience visualizing, managing and producing art and design projects in Iceland and abroad. She is Managing Director of Sequences Art Festival and Fine Art Department Coordinator at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. Other recent experience includes teaching and cultural guiding in Reykjavík. Edda was Associate Director of The Living Art Museum, curatorial consultant at Sequences VII and VIII, project manager at the Icelandic Art Center, (project managing the Icelandic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, TALK Series and other projects), and Iceland Design Center (managing exhibitions abroad) and local manager of Villa Reykjavík. Together with Kristín Gunnarsdóttir, Edda is founder and artistic director of the amorphous entity Slíjm. They have realised numerous projects, mostly in Iceland. Edda studied at the Edinburgh College of Art and holds an MA in Interaction Design from Malmö University. Lives and works in Reykjavík.

Micol Curatolo

  • Micol Curatolo is a young curator and producer interested in people's stories and shared emotions. She is starting her research into topics of migration and intercultural discourse, graduating from the MA program in Visual Culture, Curating and Contemporary Art at Aalto University, Finland. She approaches contemporary curatorship as a practice of listening, mediation and shared storytelling. She aims to value everyday knowledge and emotional intelligence as influences on artistic production, and learn to create safe workspaces for intercultural discourse and collaboration through art. Micol Curatolo is hosting CPR 2022 curators in Helsinki as assistant at Publics, a curatorial agency with a research library and event space under the direction of Paul O'Neill and Eliisa Suvanto. Micol was CPR’s Host in Helsinki during our 2022 Summer Residency Program.

Karin Laansoo

  • Karin Laansoo is a curator and Director of the Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center (ECADC). Originally from Estonia, she has been based in New York City since 2006. After receiving her MA in Art History from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2002, she has worked as a producer and Gallery Manager in Tallinn and New York. From 2008 to 2013 she was Director of PointB – an international artist residency and studio space in a former ironworks factory in Williamsburg, New York. She has curated numerous exhibitions and projects in the United States and in Europe. Because of her passion for creating platforms and audiences for new talents, Karin has published the award-winning book 22+ Young Estonian Artists (2005) and launched a biennial multidisciplinary festival Bioest in New York in 2011. In 2013 the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs honored Karin Laansoo for her work in introducing Estonian contemporary culture in New York. Since 2012 Karin has been the Director of ECADC, a nonprofit foundation focused both on fostering international exposure for artists from Estonia and on developing the contemporary art scene in Estonia. Functioning as an umbrella organization for Estonian partner institutions, the center is creating strategic international partnerships in the field of contemporary art.

Jonatan Habib Engqvist

  • Jonatan Habib Engqvist is an independent curator and writer. Currently co-curator of the process-based biennale Sinopale in Turkey and Survival Kit 9 in Latvia, organising New Småland in collaboration between 4 art institutions in southern Sweden and running the small-scale Curatorial Residency In Stockholm (CRIS). She was Program Manager for CPR 2017: The Baltic Sea. He was co-curator of the Momentum biennale 2015, project manager for visual art at Iaspis (2009-2014), curator of Reykjavík Arts Festival 2012, and has been employed as curator at Moderna Museet (2008-09). Has written for and edited books and journals, is editor in mischief at tsnoK.se and teaches regularly at The Royal Institute of Fine Art in Stockholm.

Susana Vargas

  • Susana Vargas Cervantes (Mexico) holds a PhD in Art History and Communication Studies from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Her research focuses on the different cultural understandings in gender, sex, class and skin tonalities between Latin America and Anglo North America, and their intersection with visual culture. She is the author of the book Mujercitos (2014, Editorial RM). Most recently she co-curated the exhibition In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni from the Jumex Collection and Stan Firm Inna Inglan: Black Diaspora in London, 1960-70s, Tate Britain.

Kadri Laas

  • Kadri Laas is a cultural manager, art lawyer and freelance curator based in Tallinn. She has graduated from the department of art history at the Estonian Academy of Arts (2012) and obtained a MA in law at the University of Tartu (2011). In addition she has attended Art Business courses at New York University at 2013. She is currently working as a project manager at the Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center which is focused on fostering international exposure for Estonian artists as well as developing the contemporary art scene in Estonia. Functioning as an umbrella organization for Estonian partner institutions, the center is creating strategic international partnerships in the field of contemporary art. Among other tasks Kadri consults Estonian galleries, schools art dealers and organizes art events. In 2013 she was part of Tallinn Photomonth organizing team and helped to curate "Shadows of a Doubt“, a group exhibition at Tallinn Art Hall. This year she is setting up a public program for Tallinn Photomonth Festival and helps to coordinate an international group exhibition “Prosumer” at Estonian Contemporary Art Museum (EKKM).

Anna Virtanen

  • Anna Virtanen is a curator living and working in Helsinki, Finland. She holds an MA in Art and Design from Aalto University, CuMMA Major program, and a Bachelor level degree in film and animation from Turku Arts Academy. She has worked as Assistant Curator for the Finnish Pavilion in Venice Biennale, and Coordinator at IHME Contemporary Art Festival and Galerie Anhava. Her curatorial projects include The Museum of Instability, Helsinki University Museum (2013), Fasadi, HIAP gallery (2011), and being part of the curatorial teams behind the non-profit art spaces B-galleria (Turku) and Napa Galleria (Helsinki).

Stanislaw Welbel

  • Stanisław Welbel (b. 1982, based in Warsaw), curator and art historian. Since 2009, has worked in Zacheta - National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. He studied art history at Warsaw University, and Postgraduate Museum Curatorial Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. In 2012, he took part in The 4th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course, in 2013 in The Artis Curatorial Research Trip to Israel, in 2013 he also took part in Suddenly Residency “Étoile Manquante” in Beauchery Saint-Martin, France. Presently, he is working on a PhD thesis about Marxism in post-war Polish art history methodology at The Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He curated several shows in Zacheta and other institutions: “Ain’t No Sorry” at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2008), “No sleep!” and “Plein-Air A Good and Risky Event” at the BWA Gallery in Zielona Góra (2010), “No, No I hardly Ever Miss a Show” (2012) and “Cosmos Calling! Art and Science in the Long Sixties” (2014), “John Lurie. I Am Trying to Think. Please Be Quiet” (2015) at Zacheta – National Gallery of Art. Curator of the festival - THE ARTISTS. Visual Artists' concerts and sound projects (2013, 2014, 2015).

Kateryna Filyuk

  • Kateryna Filyuk is a curator and art critic. She holds an MA in Philosophy from Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University. She has worked for the First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art ARSENALE 2012 as managing editor of the catalogue and coordinator of the discussion platform. In 2012, she took part in the 4th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course, followed by the MMCA International Research Fellowship at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea with a final essay on Korean New Media Art, in 2014. Filyuk has been involved in the organization of exhibitions in various galleries and institutions and contributed to a number of Ukrainian magazines and online platforms such as Art Ukraine. Her recent curatorial projects include: Ignorance is power. Special project at the Art-Kyiv contemporary 2013, Kyiv, Ukraine; Fake Hikers. MMCA Changdong residency, Seoul, South Korea; One day in the life, Multimedia Space for Contemporary Culture Nástupiste 1-12, Topol´cany, Slovakia. Currently she is a director of Dymchuk Gallery (Kyiv). In spring 2015 she has been admitted as a participant of the 21st course of De Appel Curatorial Programme (Amsterdam), which will start in August and runs through June 2016.

Clemens Poole

  • Clemens Poole is an independent artist based in New York City. He received his BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in New York, and is currently studying international history at Columbia University in New York and the London School of Economics. He has worked extensively as an artist, project manager, and producer in the US and internationally, most recently in a series of collaborations with IZOLYATSIA, Platform for Cultural Initiatives in Ukraine. His artistic work takes the form of photos, videos, installations and interventions. As an artist and cultural producer he is concerned with networks of the familiar and the uncanny. His projects seek to consider socio-historical perceptions and their relationship to contemporary politics and culture.

Ondrej Stupal

  • Ondrej Stupal is currently the executive director of the Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, the Czech Republic. Previously, he was the director of the Center for Contemporary Art FUTURA and Karlin Studios, non-profit art centers in Prague (2014-11). He was initiator and Co-founder of FUTURA New York Inc. (2009-2011). In 2012 Stupal, co-founded Fair Art, a Prague based non-governmental and non-profit organization with the goal of providing legal support to artists and art-organizations. In 2012 / 2013 Ondrej undertook a curatorial fellowship supported by Fulbright Scholar Program at Residency Unlimited and Triangle Arts Association in Brooklyn, New York. Stupal was one of the organizers of the international project re-toling RESIDENCIES (2009) that aims at fostering cooperation and mutual support between arts institutions from the East and West of the EU as regards arts residency programs. Ondrej served as a member of several art juries (NARS Foundation and Apexart, both New York, USA; International Visegrad Fund, Bratislava, Slovakia; Arts Institute, Prague, the Czech Republic). Stupal a board member of the Jindrich Chalupecky Society.

Kate Christina Mayne

  • Kate Christina Mayne is a writer who is active within the field of contemporary art. She has a BA in Fine Art, Painting, from Bath Spa University, UK and a Masters in the same from St Lucas Institute, Antwerp, Belgium. She is currently doing an MSc in Creative Writing at Edinburgh University. Over 15 years’ experience serving the art world as an organizer of cultural events and as a writer, translator and editor of cultural texts has allowed her to develop insights into multiple practices. She has written numerous essays on individual artists, including Gert Robijns, Pavel Büchler, Arocha+Schraenen, Clarina Bezzola, Zlatko Kopljar, An My Lê and Luc Tuymans. She writes reviews for publications such as Frieze, Wound and H Art. Kate is interested in processes that can be triggered by exhibitions and the (human) dynamics that enable the production and reception of art. Through her exploration of the gap between images and words Kate hopes to contribute to a wider understanding and appreciation of contemporary art. She lives in Antwerp, Belgium, and is currently writing her first novel.

Luisa Espino

  • Luisa Espino is an art critic, independent curator and cultural producer currently basedin Madrid. She has a MA in Art History and a Postgraduate Diploma in Cultural Communication. Her PhD dissertation in Art and Politics focused on the public space and the transformation of the contemporary city. Recent curated projects include Andreas Fogarasi–Video, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid (2015); People Have the Power at La Casa Encendida (2013), Ai Weiwei: Resistance and Tradition, CAAC Seville (2013) and PROYECTO HABITAR. When Improvised Architects Are the Ones Creating Cities, CCE Miami, CCE Mexico, CCE Montevideo and CF Antigua Guatemala (2009–2010). Espino has worked in curatorial and cultural manager positions during the last ten years at Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, CAAC Seville (2008 – 2013), Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid (2006 – 2008) and Centro Cultural Español in Miami (2004 – 2006). She has been in charge of the organisation of the first Spanish solo exhibition of many artists such as Stephen Prina, Fiona Tan, MattsStokes and Sylvia Sleigh, among other projects. She was the Editorial Coordinator of CAAC publication 11to21 and writes regularly in her blog luisaespino.com and contributes to ARTECONTEXTO, DARDOMagazine, El Duende and NAEMI US. She has participated in international programs such as Courants du Monde (Paris – Lyon, 2013) supported by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication and is a reserve Expert at The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) at the European Commission.

Bruno Leitão

  • Bruno Leitão is an independent curator based between Madrid and Lisbon. He has a degree in Fine Arts (ESAD-CR) and a Postgrad in Curatorial Studies (FBAUL/Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation). Currently, Leitão is a PhD candidate of UCLM, Spain, thesis title “Curating between the political and formalism,” and a IKT Member (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art). He served as curator at Lumiar Cité, exhibition space of Maumaus, School of Visual Arts in Lisbon, where he worked with, among other artists, Allan Sekula and Harun Farocki. Leitão’s recent curatorial projects includes: El Buen Caligrama The Goma, Madrid (2015); You love me. You love me not Galeria Municipal do Porto (2015); Narrativas Culturales Galería Paula Alonso, Madrid (2014); Atelier Utopia, EDP Foundation Porto (2012); Contra/cto at 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2014). He was jury and guest curator for Xerem in the third edition of the workshop TN, OFFLINE-Triangle Network. Leitão is a board member and Curatorial Director at Hangar – Center for Artistic Research in Lisbon. He is contributes with Dardo and Artishock Magazines, and is the founder and director of the curatorial web-based project Curatorial Clube www.curatorialclube.com

Hyunsook Ahn

  • Hyunsook Ahn is an independent curator based in Seoul. She is the co-director of MAKU: Research, Production and more. She was responsible for contemporary visual art curatorial program <Project ViA> in KAMS(Korea Arts Management Service) on behalf of Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Hyunsook studied Fine Art and Art Theory in Seoul, and was a curator of one of the early alternative spaces Ssamzie Space (2007-2009), Gyeonggi Creation Center by GyeongGi, Cultural Foundation (2010-2012) and an organizer of NASN (Nonprofit art spaces network). Co-translator of Gwangju Biennial (2006), has been working for exchange projects with various international institutions such as Arab Society (Korea), Hangar (Spain), Tokyo wonder Site (Japan), Asialink (Australia), Frame Visual art Finland (Finland) PERFORMA/Independent Curators International (ICI)/Residency Unlimited(USA) since 2006.

Ana Maria Millan

  • Ana María Millán lives and works in Berlin. Her work embodies a personal voice, some times skeptical, some times humoristic, within the narrative realm of information. She has been part of the artists collective Helena Producciones since 1998, which won the first Visible Award of Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto with the project 8 Festival de Performance de Cali in 2011. Among her exhibitions are: Frio en Colombia Premio Luis Caballero (solo), Archivo de Bogotá 2015; Nido o Átomo. He Aquí la Estrella, Die Ecke Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile 2015; Hielo negro (solo), (bis) | oficina de proyectos, Cali 2015; Mutis Mutare, El Matadero, Madrid 2015; Video Sector, Miami Art Basel, Miami 2014; Dinastía (solo), Instituto de Visión, Bogotá 2014, Living as Form (with Helena Producciones) Creative Time, New York 2011; ¿Tierra de Nadie?, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz 2011; AUTO-KINO! presented by Phil Collins, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin 2009; Historias Colaterales, Centro Cultural de España, Guatemala 2008; I Still Believe in Miracles – part I, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 2005.

Juan Sebastián Peláez

  • Juan Sebastián Peláez lives and works in Bogotá. Artist and co-founder of El Bodegón (2005–2009) and MIAMI (2011–), both artist run spaces in Bogotá as well as CARNE (2014–) an international artist run gallery. Among his recent exhibitions are Temporary Autonomous No Flex Zone (solo); (bis) | oficina de proyectos, Cali 2015; #pleaselike (solo), El Parqueadero, Banco de la República; Colombia Hoy, I Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Cartagena de Indias, Cartagena 2014.

Emiliano Valdés

  • Emiliano Valdés (Guatemala, 1980) is Chief Curator at the Medellín Museum of Modern Art. He was recently Associate Curator for the 10th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea) and Co-Director of Proyectos Ultravioleta (Guatemala). Previously, he was Curator/Head of Visual Arts at the Centro Cultural de España en Guatemala where over 5 years he developed an exhibition program that helped re-shape the artistic scene in the country, and worked for institutions such as dOCUMENTA(13) (Kassel), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, (Madrid), and Contemporary Magazines, (London), amongst others. He has written for ArtNexus, Arte al Día, and FlashArt, amongst other international publications as well as for numerous artist catalogs and books. He is interested in art as a form of knowledge, the production of public programs, and the relationship between art and culture, and natural environment.

Marta Ramos-Yzquierdo

  • Marta Ramos-Yzquierdo is an art historian based in Sao Paulo. She received her MA in Cultural Management, from the Instituto Ortega y Gasset (Spain) and a diploma in Corporate Communications, Universidad de los Andes (Chile). She collaborated with MAVI, MAC and Centro Cultural de España in Santiago de Chile. In Brazil was the Director of Galeria Baró (2009). She was appointed director of Pivô (2012-2013), where she was responsible for the initial structuring and launching. As a researcher, Ramos is part of History in display (WT), a collaborative project with contemporary artists on critical insertion in Brazilian museums. She is also developing the solo research Artist working, (thinking on) new economies, a report and exhibition about the labor conditions in the contemporary art. Following these two lines of investigation, Ramos curated Emmathomasteca; Error as a star; and Sublime and Dystopia, in Brazil; History is written by the victors and Felipe Ehrenberg 67' // 15' and its public program Visual scores in Madrid, Spain. She carries out Circuitos ArtRio, a curatorial circuit of contemporary narratives, and Applications of the various flow theories, an agenda of meetings among artists and other agents sponsored by Barro Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ramos writes for Arte al día, Artishock and A-Desk.

Marina Reyes-Franco

  • Marina Reyes Franco is an independent curator, art historian and co-founder and director of La Ene - Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo. She has a BA in Art History, University of Puerto Rico and a MA in Argentine and Latin American Art History, IDAES-UNSAM, Argentina. Her recent projects include: Wordings, The Wooden Floor, California; Poesia desde a Seguridade Social, Phosphorus, São Paulo, Brazil (2013); Donde hay protesta hay negocio [Where there’s a protest there’s business to be made], Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Mil pedazos [A thousand pieces], Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Trabaja por tu nombre [Earn your name], Urgente, Buenos Aires; Colección [Collection] at Castagnino+macro, Rosario, Argentina (2014); Sucursal: La Ene at MALBA, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina and Calibán, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan, PR. Since 2010, she has been working at La Ene, the museum she co-founded with Gala Berger as a critical intervention in the Buenos Aires art scene, and contributes regularly curating exhibitions. Her research interests include the work of Esteban Valdés, the alternative circulation strategies of graphic art, post-colonial theory, feminism, museum studies and new museology, autonomous art projects, and artistic and literary manifestations in the frontier of political action.

Bernardo Sopelana

  • Bernardo Sopelana is an independent curator and cultural manager, based in Baja California Sur Mexico and Madrid. He has a degree in Film Studies and a diploma in Curatorial and Exhibition Management, Universidad Carlos III. His work focus in the boundaries between contemporary scientific theory like quantum physics or mathematics philosophy with the art production. His recent projects include Possible Models at OTR Madrid (2016), Brisure de Symétrie at Sobering Gallerie, Paris (2015), SENSOWIFI at Frágil, Madrid (2014), Uncertainty Principle, The Goma Gallery, Madrid (2014), … and so on... at Salón, Madrid (2013); ICEBERG, Matadero Madrid (2012); After Now Raquel Ponce Gallery, Madrid (2012) and the show Constant Movement, which was exhibited at Instituto de México in Spain, Instituto Cervantes in Budapest andM17 Contemporary Art Center in Kiev (2011). As a cultural manager, he was part of the crew from Elba Benitez Gallery (2011-2013); general coordinator of the first edition of the program between artists, curators and gallerists a3bandas (2011) in Madrid. In Mexico he worked as the general coordinator at Garash Gallery (2006-2008). He writes for the website of contemporary art www.nosotros-art.com. Currently, he is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the project CalorCalor, an art residence in Baja California Sur Mexico which will begin its program in 2017.