Guests: Second Colloquium of Non-Object Art

Guests: Second Colloquium of Non-Object Art

Guests

Director

Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy (Mexico)

She is the curator of contemporary art for the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection. She works closely with visual artists, academics, and cultural figures, conceptualizing “meeting points” so that the public can experience contemporary art in a unique way, weaving together the familiar and the unusual, the known and the foreign, casually and without prejudice.

Coordinator
Emiliano Valdés (Guatemala)

He is the Chief Curator of the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín. Previously, he was Associate Curator of the 10th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea) and Co-Director of Proyectos Ultravioleta (Guatemala). He has worked at institutions such as the Spanish Cultural Center in Guatemala (Guatemala), dOCUMENTA(13) (Kassel), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), and contemporary magazines (London), among others.

Speakers
Alberto Sierra (Colombia)
He has been a pillar of Medellín’s artistic life in recent decades: a promoter of the creation of the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín and founder of the Galería de la Oficina. He coordinated the First Latin American Colloquium on Non-Objective Art and Urban Art and curated several exhibitions in the country.

Ana Laura López (Uruguay)

Her work is developed at the community level and explores the idea of ​​the “common good,” both what is inherently shared—what we are obligated to share, for example, public space—and what we are capable of sharing voluntarily through generosity, collaboration, and exchange, pooling resources and producing collective knowledge. She currently lives and works in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Ana María Cano Posada (Colombia)
A graduate in Social Communication and from the Journalists in Europe program. Co-director of the Savia Collection on the Botany of Colombia. Former director of the EAFIT Publishing Fund. Founder and director of the magazines La Hoja de Medellín and La Hoja de Bogotá. Columnist for El Espectador since 1986.

Efrén Giraldo (Colombia)

He is an essayist, critic, short story writer, researcher, editor, and university professor. He holds a PhD in Literature, a Master’s degree in Art History, and a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Literature from the University of Antioquia. He is a Full Professor and Head of the Humanities Department at EAFIT University. Since 2015, he has coordinated the Medellín Criticism Workshop, an independent space that supports critical writing and debate on the arts and culture.

Félix Suazo (Cuba)

Professor, art critic, researcher, and curator. He graduated from the Higher Institute of Art in Havana in 1990. He has worked as a researcher at the National Art Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas. He is currently the Manager of Sala TAC (Trasnocho Arte Contacto), a member of the curatorial team at El Anexo / Arte Contemporáneo, and a professor at the National Experimental University of the Arts in Caracas.

Lucas Ospina (Colombia)

Born in Bogotá in 1971, he is the son of an actor and a photographer, and the nephew of a filmmaker. He earned an undergraduate degree in art and a master’s degree in sculpture from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. He sometimes draws, sometimes writes. He is a professor at the University of the Andes.

Magali Arriola (Mexico)

Art critic and independent curator. She was curator at the Jumex Contemporary Art Foundation from 2011 to 2014, where she curated exhibitions of artists such as James Lee Byars (co-curated with Peter Eleey and co-produced with MoMA-PS1), Guy de Cointet, and Danh Vo, as well as group exhibitions featuring pieces from the collection. She has written for books and catalogs and has contributed to magazines such as Frieze, Artforum, Mousse, Manifesta Journal, Afterall, and The Exhibitionist, among others.

Miguel López (Peru)

Peruvian writer and chief curator of TEOR/éTica in San José, Costa Rica. His writing has been published in magazines such as Afterall, Manifesta Journal, E-flux Journal, Art in America, Ramona, ArtNexus, Journal of Visual Culture, and Art Journal, among others. In 2016, she received the Independent Vision Curatorial Award, given every two years to a curator worldwide, by ICI – Independent Curators International in New York.

Artists

Carolina Caycedo and Ríos Vivos (Colombia)

She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Universidad de los Andes and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Southern California. She lives in Los Angeles and is currently researching the effects of the extractive economy on water bodies and social structures in various bioregions of the Americas.

The Colombian Ríos Vivos Movement is an alliance of diverse communities affected by the construction of dams in their territories. They are a grassroots social movement working to build alternative societal projects and an energy project of and for the people.

Ernesto Salmerón (Nicaragua)
His work connects everyday social events with the historical and educational conceptions of the context in which he works. His work “AURAS OF WAR: Interventions within the Nicaraguan Revolutionary Public Space” is part of the permanent collection of Tate Modern in England and has been shown at the 52nd Venice Biennale as well as in Crisisss: Latin America, Art and Confrontation.

Fernando García-Dory (Spain) with the Medellín urban gardeners network and the women gardeners of the Jardín Agroecological Garden Corporation.
His work focuses primarily on the ways in which culture and nature are linked in relation to landscape contexts, rural life, desires, and expectations related to aspects of identity, crisis, utopia, and social change. He studied fine arts and rural sociology and is currently pursuing his doctorate in art and agroecology.

Harold Ortiz (Colombia) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work has focused on creating temporary projects in urban spaces that act as devices for social experimentation, inviting the public to interact and activating critical reflection on evident social situations and problems, using space as a catalyst.

María Buenaventura (Colombia)
Coordinator of various educational projects and mediation workshops, she has taught at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University and the University of Los Andes. Her work is a blend of crafts and knowledge, such as cooking, installation art, and history, which she has been developing for over 10 years.

Naufus Ramírez Figueroa (Guatemala)
A visual artist and performer, he holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Emily Carr University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Rendez-Vous at the 13th Lyon Biennial. He currently lives and works in Berlin.

Ricardo Basbaum (Brazil)

He lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. He is an artist and writer who has regularly participated in exhibitions and projects since 1981. He is currently a professor in the Department of Arts at the Federal Fluminense University. He is an artist with an intense activity, not only artistically, but also as a teacher, researcher, and curator. In Basbaum’s work, the conceptual and the performative serve as vehicles for the viewer to have their own artistic experience, always in transformation.

Susana Mejía (Colombia)

A visual artist from The Art Institute of Boston, she is interested in color and the social function of art. She coordinates the Color Amazonía project, recovering traditional knowledge of dyeing natural fibers and extracting pigments from plants, working alongside a group of women in the Amazon.

Commissioned Art Projects for Social Media

Ana María Millán (Colombia)

Her work locates a personal, skeptical, and sometimes humorous voice within the narrative spaces of information transmission and video in relation to certain subcultures and ideas of violence. Her exhibitions include Savvy Contemporary, Berlin 2016; ¿Tierra de nadie? (No Man’s Land?), Montehermoso Cultural Center, Vitoria-Gasteiz 2011; and I Still Believe in Miracles – Part I, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 2005, among others.

Amalia Pica (Argentina)

Her work encompasses sculpture, photography, drawing, film, installation, and performance. Her pieces invite the viewer to reflect on the construction, effectiveness, and nature of thought and speech. She also has a strong interest in interventions in public spaces and civic engagement in art.

Alejandro Cesarco (Uruguay)
His work shares with conceptualism a constant preoccupation with reading and the relationships between words and images. Recent solo exhibitions include: The Inner Shadow, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam (2016), Play, Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2015), and Loyalties and Betrayals, Murray Guy, NY (2015), among others.

Chantal Peñalosa (Mexico)
She holds a degree in visual arts. Her research develops from small gestures of intervention within everyday life that function as ruptures to resignify certain situations. Her work has been exhibited in venues such as Lulu, Casa del Lago, Bikini Wax, MUAC, TalCual, Proyecto Paralelo, Casa del Lago, and the Goethe Institute, among others.

Florencia Alvarado (Venezuela)
She holds a degree in graphic design from the University of Zulia. She has exhibited her work in Other Illuminations (Alternative Spaces of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Zulia, 2013) and Breaths of Life (El Hatillo Gallery, 2014). As a curator, she collaborated with Backroom Caracas on the installation Backdrop for the Cisneros Collection Seminar (2015). She was Editor-in-Chief and Art Director of the online contemporary art platform Backroom, Caracas.

Juan Sebastián Moreno Múnera (Colombia)
His projects explore the spaces of conservation, classification, and representation of knowledge, destabilizing the forms of relationship offered by institutions. He is currently working on the post-production of his feature film, The Tower, and is co-director of the cultural action space PorEstosDías. He is a candidate for a Master’s degree in Visual Arts at the National University of Colombia.

Manuel Correa (Colombia)

He studied film and video at Emily Carr University in Vancouver. His film #ARTOFFLINE premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2016. His work has been exhibited internationally in Canada, Austria, and Colombia. Correa’s writing has been published in &&& Journal (NY), Teoría y Practice (Russia), Terremoto (Mexico), and Superconversations, eflux (NY).