FLOW Series

The FLOW Series presents a series of meetings bringing together artists and curators from around the world and representatives of the local and international art scene.

Tuesday 26 June 2018, 7:30 h:

Han Nefkens will talk with Pablo León de la Barra, Miguel Lopez, Jorge Fernàndez Torres and Eduardo Carrera.

Pablo Leòn de la Barra (Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, 1972)

Researcher, creator of exhibitions, independent curator. Currently curator for Latin America at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
He is currently in a two-year residency at the Guggenheim in New York as Guggenheim UBS MAP Commissioner for Latin America.
Born in Mexico City in 1972, León de la Barra obtained his doctorate at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.
He has curated or co-curated more than a dozen exhibitions in the last decade, at institutions such as the David Roberts Art Foundation; the Center d’Art Contemporain Genève; the Kunsthalle Zürich; l’Apexart, of New York; Casa Luis Barragán, Casa del Lago and the Tamayo Museum, in Mexico City; the Carmen Miranda Museum, of Rio de Janeiro; the Beta-Local, of San Juan, Puerto Rico; Cultural Center of Spain, to Guatemala; Casa Encendida, from Madrid, or the AMIL Project, from Lima.
He has given numerous conferences, writes for publications around the world and publishes his own blog, Center for the Aesthetic Revolution.

Jorge Fernández Torres (La Havana, Cuba, 1965)

Jorge Fernández is an art historian, critic and curator. Graduate of Art History (Faculty of Arts and Letters, Universidad de La Havana, 1992) and Professor of Theoretical Studies at the Universidad de Artes de Cuba since 1999.
He has given numerous workshops and lectures on topics related to contemporary art, architecture, communication and the development of film and audiovisual, invited by numerous universities both American and European.
He currently directs the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Cuba and previously, has been director of the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam Contemporary and the 12th Havana Biennial (2015). He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Biennial World Foundation.

Miguel López (Lima, Peru, 1983)

Miguel López is a writer, curator and researcher. Her practice focuses mainly on collective processes, experimental art, feminist art, and the themes of gender and sexuality traversed by the processes of political memory.

He has published in magazines such as Afterall, e-flux, ArtNexus, Manifesta Journal, Art in America, among others.

His recent exhibitions include Utopian Pulse. Flares in the darkroom in Secession, Vienna (2014); the section Dios es marica for the 31st Bienal de Sao Paulo (2014); Un cuerpo ambulante. Sergio Zevallos en el Grupo Chaclacayo (1982-1994) in Museo de Arte de Lima and Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (2013-2014); Pulso Alterado. Intensidades en la colección del MUAC y sus colecciones asociadas (with Sol Henaro) in MUAC-UNAM, Mexico City (2013); Perder la Forma Humana. Una imagen sísmica de los años 80 en América Latina (with the Red Conceptualismos del Sur) in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2012). He has recently been editor of the book Giuseppe Campuzano. Saturday Night Thriller y otros escritos, 1998-2013 (2013). Between 2012 and 2013 he was curator of Lugar a dudas in Cali, Colombia. In Lima, he joined the space of artists and collective Espacio La Culpable during 2006 and 2008, and is co-founder of the Bisagra space.

He is currently the chief curator of TEOR / éTica, an independent, private and non-profit project located in San José, Costa Rica.

Eduardo Carrera Rivadeneira (Quito, Ecuador, 1987)

Commissioner and cultural manager. He is currently the curator-in-chief of the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito. In the past, he was co-director of No Lugar – Arte Contemporáneo. Between 2011 and 2017 he has been consultant to the Ministry of Culture and Heritage of Ecuador, collaborator in projects with the Metropolitan Institute of Heritage of Quito, Head of Research and Heritage of the Museums Foundation of the City, and researcher of the Contemporary Art Center . His recent exhibitions include La Transmisión del Gesto – Ciclo de Performance (CAC, 2017); In Search of Global Poetry: Videos de la Colección Han Nefkens (CAC, 2017); Soy Paisaje (CAC, 2017); Absorber la Ficción (CAC, 2017); Queer City (No Place, 2017). He has been coordinator and curator of Premio Brasil – Arte Emergente in its 2013, 2015 and 2017 editions. From 2013 to the present he is the organizer and curator of the exhibitions within the framework of the LGBTIQ + Pride Month. He holds a degree in Visual Arts from the Universidad Católica del Ecuador, a Master’s in Cultural Management from the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, and is an Alumni of Independent Curators International – ICI, New York.