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Participation as a speaker in the 9 th conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, 17-19 September 2024

Katerina Valdivia Bruch is one of the speakers of the "Avant-Garde and War" conference, which will take place in Kraków from 17 to 19 September.

Katerina's paper, with the title "Velasco Alvarado's Cultural Policies: Towards Collaborative Artistic Practice and Social Inclusion", focuses on the innovative inclusive cultural policies of this government and how a group of experimental artists contributed to the implementation of them.

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Participation as a speaker in the LASA2024 conference, 12-15 June 2024

Katerina Valdivia Bruch is one of the speakers at the LASA (Latin American Studies Association) conference "Reaction and Resistance: Imagining Possible Futures in the Americas", which will take place in Bogotá from 12 to 15 June.

Her paper, with the title "Por la puerta falsa: How the Peruvian Experimental Art Scene from the Mid-1960s to Mid-1970s Gained Entry into the Latin American Conceptualist Canon," examines the new historiography (since the mid-2000s) created by Peruvian curators about this period, and how the experimental art scene in Lima entered the Latin American conceptualist canon.

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Buchpräsentation: Lena Geuer “Arte argentino - Ästhetik und Identitätsnarrative in der argentinischen Kunst”

26. Mai 2023, 18.30 Uhr in Andenbuch, Berlin

Die Monografie "Arte argentino – Ästhetik und Identitätsnarrative in der argentinischen Kunst. Ausgewählte Arbeiten von Marta Minujín und Luis Felipe Noé" von Lena Geuer erschien 2022 im transcript Verlag. Das Buch liefert für den deutschsprachigen Raum eine erste umfassende Studie, die den Begriff der ‚arte argentino‘ mittels postkolonialer und sinnlich-materieller Ansätze kritisch durchleuchtet. So hat die Autorin das Verhältnis zwischen Eigenem und Fremdem in Hinblick auf Identitätsnarrative in der künstlerischen Praxis sowie in der nationalen und geopolitischen Aneignung von Kunst ausführlich untersucht.

In den 1960er und 1970er Jahren lebten Marta Minujín und Luis Felipe Noé in den internationalen Kunstmetropolen Paris und New York, bevor sie in den 1980er Jahren nach Buenos Aires zurückkehrten. Die Künstler:innen haben die global vernetze Kunstrezeption ab den 1960er Jahren durch ihre Arbeiten mitgestaltet und nachhaltig geprägt. Vor dem Hintergrund der Global Art History widmet sich die Studie auch eurozentrischen Narrative in der Kunstgeschichtsschreibung, die durch das Potenzial der ‚arte argentino‘ dekonstruiert und in transkulturelle Erzählungen transformiert werden konnten.

Die Veranstaltung findet in deutscher Sprache statt, mit einer kurzen Einführung in spanischer Sprache.

Moderation: Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Buchhandlung und Kulturraum Andenbuch, Bergmannstr. 59 (im Hof), 10961 Berlin

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Participation as a Speaker in The Second East-Central European Art Forum, 17-18 March 2023

Katerina Valdivia Bruch is one of the speakers at the The Second East-Central European Art Forum, which will be held from 17 to 18 March 2023. During the conference, she will present part of her current research on the experimental art scene during Velasco Alvarado's military administration (1968-1975).

The event was organised by the Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research on East-Central European Art and took place at the cultural centre Zamek in Poznań (Poland).

Click here to listen to her presentation on the podcast of “Rethinking Conceptualism.”

This and other episodes are available via “Rethinking Conceptualism” on Spotify.

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Online Reading Session # 13: Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig “Essays on 20th Century Latin American Art”

17 November 2022, 18:00 h (GMT +1) via Zoom

Invited guest: Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig, PhD

In this session, we will discuss a selection of essays on Central American and Caribbean art, art and politics in the 1960s and 1980s, and the carnival in Latin America.

Abstract of the publication:

“Essays on 20th Century Latin American Art” (New York, NY: Routledge, 2022) provides a broad synthesis of the subject through short chapters illustrated with reproductions of iconic works by artists who have made significant contributions to art and society. Designed as a teaching tool for non-art historians, the book's purpose is to introduce these important artists within a new scholarly context and recognize their accomplishments with those of others beyond the Americas and the Caribbean. The publication provides an in-depth analysis of topics such as political issues in Latin American art and art and popular culture, introducing views on artists and art-related issues that have rarely been addressed. Organized both regionally and thematically, it takes a unique approach to the exploration of art in the Americas, beginning with discussions of Modernism and Abstraction, followed by a chapter on art and politics from the 1960s to the 1980s. The author covers Spanish-speaking Central America and the Caribbean, regions not usually addressed in Latin American art history surveys. The chapter on Carnival as an expression of popular culture is a particularly valuable addition. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Latin American history, culture, art, international relations, gender studies, and sociology, as well as Caribbean studies.

Biography of the author:

FRANCINE BIRBRAGHER-ROZENCWAIG is an art historian, independent curator, and writer. She holds a master's degree in art history and a doctorate in Latin American history from the University of Miami. She is an editor and contributor to ArtNexus magazine. Since 1989 she has been writing about contemporary art with an emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean. As an independent curator, she has organized more than one hundred exhibitions in the United States and Latin America. She is the author of Essays on Latin American Art of the 20th Century (Routledge, 2022). She currently works on projects that question the limits between "high art" and "popular art," analyze gender and sexual identity issues, and suggest new historical readings from artistic expressions. She is co-curator with Juan Canela of the 23rd edition of the Bienal de Arte Paiz, which will take place in Guatemala in 2023.

The session will be held in English.

Limited number of spaces available. Registrations are free of charge and available via Eventbrite.

Coordination and moderation: Katerina Valdivia Bruch

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Artistic presentation “Between Personal Chronicles and Collective Memory: Artistic Perspectives on Memory, Oral History and Resistance from the Latin American Diaspora in Berlin.”

13 October 2022, 13.30 h (Bogotá), 20.30 h (Berlin), via Zoom

Participants: Katerina Valdivia Bruch, Daniela Lehmann Carrasco and María Linares

The event is part of the programme of the First Meeting of the Latin American Regional Group of the Memory Studies Association, held in Bogotá (in presence and online).

In this talk, Katerina Valdivia Bruch will speak about what inspired her to develop the exhibition Between Personal Chronicles and Collective Memory, and included a brief introduction to the exhibition.

The talk will continue with the participation of the artist Daniela Lehmann Carrasco, who will present her long term project on her family history, based on autoethnographic walks. Through these walks, the artist reflects on her family's memories and migrations (from Germany to Chile and from Chile to Germany) in two historical periods, the Second World War and the Pinochet dictatorship.

Afterwards, the artist María Linares will give an introduction of RENOMBREMOS EL 12 DE OCTUBRE, a participatory project that was created with the idea of giving a new name to the “Day of the Race” in Colombia. The project started in 2019, before the name of this commemorative day was changed in Colombia in 2021.

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Arts & Conversation "Despatriarcalizar el archivo" con Karen Cordero Reiman, Natalia de la Rosa y Roselin Rodríguez

28 de julio de 2022, 18:00 (GMT +2) vía Zoom

Hay muchas maneras de trabajar con archivos de arte o de artistas. Una forma de hacerlo es tomando una postura crítica de acercamiento desde una perspectiva que desafíe al patriarcado. Sobre éste y otros temas hablaremos en nuestra sesión “Arts & Conversation” (Arte y conversación) con nuestras invitadas Karen Cordero Reiman, Natalia de la Rosa y Roselin Rodríguez, integrantes del seminario y taller “Despatriarcalizar el archivo” en Ciudad de México. Sobre Despatriarcalizar el archivoEl seminario y taller Despatriarcalizar el archivo es un grupo de trabajo formado desde febrero 2020, que reúne a investigadorxs diversxs – historiadores del arte, artistas visuales, antropólogxs y escritorxs, entre otrxs – con el fin de compartir experiencias y construir estrategias comunes para analizar y proponer alternativas a los “modelos patriarcales ligados a ejercicios de poder en el campo de la cultura y del arte”. Desde entonces, se ha convertido en una iniciativa colectiva que ha consolidado una primera etapa de reflexión y creación en este sentido, y que ha compartido este proceso y sus resultados iniciales en publicaciones en línea, conferencias y talleres.

Coordinación y moderación: Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Con la colaboración de Sara Vakili (Universidad de Tubinga, Departmento de Cultura y Literatura Inglesa & Estudios del Sur Global).

El evento será en español.

Las entradas son gratuitas y están disponibles vía Eventbrite.

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Arts & Conversation "On Borders", with Tintin Wulia and Alex Brahim

7 July 2022, 18:00 (GMT +2) via Zoom

In this meeting, we are going to speak about two current artistic projects that address the topic of borders.

The research project “Protocols of Killings: 1965, distance, and the ethics of future warfare”, by Tintin Wulia, explores the connection between violence, distance and accountability. It aesthetically draws parallels between the protocols around the Indonesian massacres in 1965 and 1966 and the future technology of drone warfare.

The project “Juntos aparte” (Together Apart), by Alex Brahim, addresses topics of migration, restriction, citizenship and mobility at the Venezuelan-Colombian border between San Antonio del Táchira (Venezuela) and Cúcuta (Colombia). Since 2017, the international encounter on art, thought and borders “Juntos Aparte. Encuentro Internacional de Arte, Pensamiento y Fronteras” has been carried out in the city of Cúcuta.

The event will be held in English language. Limited number of spaces available.

Tickets are free of charge and available via Eventbrite.

Coordination and moderation: Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Photo: Terra Incognita, Et Cetera, 2009. Courtesy Tintin Wulia

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Online Reading Session # 12: María Clara Bernal (ed.) "Redes intelectuales. Arte y política en América Latina"

26 May 2022, 18:00 h (GMT +2) via Zoom

Invited guest: Sylvia Suárez

In this session, we will discuss a selection of essays on networks among artists and intellectuals from Latin America in the twentieth century, that are part of the publication "Redes intelectuales: arte y política en América Latina" (Intellectual Networks: Art and Politics in Latin America), edited by María Clara Bernal and published by Uniandes in 2015.

Abstract of the publication: This book is part of the project "Intellectual Networks: Art and Politics in Latin America". Its main goal is to study the discussions about the relationship between art and politics in Latin American cities from 1920 to 1980. The analysis of this period offers insight into the networks that emerged from the exchange between artists and intellectuals during unique historical conditions and through diverse platforms. The principal thematic areas in Intellectual Networks are the continental nodes and networks constructed by cultural magazines during the first half of the twentieth century, poetic-ideological networks that caused a polarization between American intellectuals and artists during the Cold War and, lastly, macro- and micro-political networks established by the most ideologically compromised artists, critics, and curators during the seventies. The book gathers multiple perspectives because understanding the complexity of continental artistic processes implies a commitment to networking.

Additional information:

This bilingual publication (Spanish and English) was made possible thanks to a grant from Getty Institute's "Connecting Art Histories" initiative and is the outcome of "Intellectual Networks: Art and Politics in Latin America". The project was hosted by Fundación ArtNexus and brought together scholars from across Latin America to study intellectual and artistic networks in the region during the 1920s and the 1970s. A project team of international scholars met in two research seminars—one at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá and one at the Getty Center—to address these important decades in Latin American social and artistic history. The team presented its research findings through papers at a public conference and through an exhibition of archival material at the Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero (Buenos Aires) in 2013. The exhibition traveled to the Museum Leopoldo Rother at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in May 2014.

The session will be held in English. Limited number of spaces available. Registrations are free of charge and available via Eventbrite.

Coordination and moderation: Katerina Valdivia Bruch

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Very honoured to know that my interview with the artist Rabih Mroué will be part of the catalogue of his solo exhibition "Under the Carpet" at KW Institute of Contemporary Art. Here you will find the link to the interview from 2016 (an oldie, but a goodie): https://www.goethe.de/ins/lb/en/kul/mag/20812525.html

Image: Rabih Mroué, The Pixelated Revolution, lecture performance  | Photo: Pascheit Spanned, © Gallery Sfeir-Semler

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Online Reading Session # 11: Clemente Padín "Vanguardia poética latinoamericana" (in Spanish)

25 November 2021, 18:00 h (GMT +1) via Zoom

In this session, we will discuss with Clemente Padín a selection of his essays on visual poetry and performance in his book "Vanguardia poética latinoamericana".We have also invited Darío Marroche, editor of the second edition of "Vanguardia poética latinoamericana", recently published by the editorial microutopías, who will speak with us about this new edition of the book.Note: The meeting will be held in Spanish language.

Abstract of the publication: "Vanguardia poética latinoamericana" (ed. microutopías, 2021) brings together essays by Clemente Padín written between 1965 and 2020 on the poetic and visual practices of the Latin American avant-garde: experimental poetry, mail art, video art, urban interventions and poetic action, among others. Of great theoretical and documentary value, the book aims to highlight the creation of the Latin American avant-garde and open new dialogues on contemporary creation. This is the second edition of the book, initially published as "Vanguardia poética latinoamericana y otros ensayos" (Ed. Colectivo Editorial Sur/l, Buenos Aires, 2018).

About the author: Clemente Padín (Lascano, Rocha, October 8, 1939) is a Uruguayan poet, performer, artist and Graphic designer and a reference in the artistic currents of concrete poetry and mail art. He graduated in Hispanic Literature at the UdelaR (University of the Republic in Uruguay). He is the editor of the publications Los huevos del Plata (1965-1969), OVUM 10 and OVUM (1969-1975), Participación (1984-1986) and Correo del Sur (2000). He has contributed as an author to the magazine "Escáner Cultural: Revista Virtual de Arte Contemporáneo y Nuevas Tendencias", as well as has published in several international art magazines and other publications. Padín has participated in more than 200 group exhibitions and more than 1,200 Mail Art exhibitions worldwide.He has had solo exhibitions in the United States, Italy, South Korea, Argentina, Uruguay, Germany, Mexico, Spain, Canada, Dominican Republic, Peru, Brazil, Belgium and Japan. He participated in the XVI Sao Paulo Biennial (1981) and to the Biennials of Havana (1984 and 2000), Cuenca, Ecuador (2002) and the 2nd Biennial of Art in Thessaloniki, Greece (2009). Padín received a scholarship from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) (1984). Padín is author of 25 books and hundreds of notes and articles. He was distinguished with Pedro Figari Award for his artistic career in 2005, as well as the award 400 Años de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (400 Years of the National University of Córdoba), Argentina, and the Bernard Heidsiek Honorary Prize of the Centre Georges Pompidou France, in 2019. His archive is in the General Archive of the UdelaR, Montevideo, Uruguay.

About the editor: Darío Marroche is a Uruguayan architect and designer. He is currently working as an independent publisher in visual arts, coordinating a publication studio from Montevideo called microutopías. Since 2014 his works relate the publishing process as a creative act and reflective exercise of graphic activism. He considers publishing as an artistic practice in the generation of microutopías: space-time aesthetic experiences that are socially engaged. He organises community-based activities around self-publishing, art books and visual poetry, as well as coordinating the Montevideo Art Book Fair since 2018.

Coordination and moderation: Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Limited number of spaces available. Registrations are free of charge and available via Eventbrite.

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"Alles wunderbar", a solo exhibition by Ardan Özmenoğlu Curated by Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Opening: Thursday, 16 September 2021

Exhibition: 16 September - 13 November 2021

Anna Laudel Gallery Mühlenstraße 1, 40213 Düsseldorf

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Online Workshop "Discrimination and Language", with María Linares 

30 September 2021, 18:00 h (GMT +2) via Zoom

The aim of this workshop is to explore and question the normality of discrimination processes prevailing in everyday life, happening mainly through language.

The participants are invited to reflect on their own experiences of discrimination from an awareness-raising exercise of the German Anti-Bias-Werkstatt (Anti-Prejudice Workshop). Based on this, we will compile expressions that imply discrimination and focus on those that reveal a historical burden, and then look for options on how to deconstruct them through a playful process.

Coordination and moderation: Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Limited number of spaces available. Registrations are free of charge and available via Eventbrite.

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Online workshop "The Objects of my Memories", with Yoel Díaz Vázquez (in Spanish)

26 August 2021, 18:00 h (GMT +2), via Zoom

How can we transform passive memories into active ones? In this workshop, we will deal with objects of personal and collective memory as symbolic tools for peaceful protest and resistance, in order to analyse and question the official narrative.

The aim of this workshop is to stimulate an artistic praxis that invites the participants to reinterpret and transform selected objects of their personal memories, as an exercise of resistance.

Coordination and moderation: Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Limited number of spaces available. Registrations are free of charge and available via Eventbrite.

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Online Reading Session # 10 "CORPUS DELECTI: Performance Art of the Americas"

30 June 2021, 18:00 h (GMT +2) via Zoom

In this session, we will discuss a selection of texts in "Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas", a collection of essays edited by Coco Fusco, published by Routledge in 1999.

Abstract of the book: An exploration of performance art from the Americas for English language readers, "Corpus Delecti" is a unique collection of historical and critical studies of contemporary Latin performance. Drawing on live art from the 1960s to the present day, the essays explore the impact of Latin American politics, popular culture and syncretic religions on Latin American performance.

Including contributions by artists as well as scholars, Fusco's collection bridges the theory/practice divide and discusses a wide variety of genres, including body art, carpa, vaudeville, staged political protest and hacktivism. The essays demonstrate how specific social and historical contexts have shaped Latin American performance. They also show how those factors have affected the choices artists make, and how their work draw upon and respond to their environment.

Coordination and moderation: Katerina Valdivia Bruch Limited number of spaces available. Registrations via Eventbrite.

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“Between Personal Chronicles and Collective Memory” at Instituto Cervantes Berlin

Artists: María Linares, Daniela Lehmann Carrasco, Ana María Milán, Yoel Díaz Vázquez

Opening: 2 June 2021, 19:00 h

Exhibition dates: 2 - 9 June 2021

What do we remember? Are memories a reconstruction of the real? Are they built upon real facts or merely fictional stories? Is it possible to create a historiography based on personal narratives?

The exhibition “Between Personal Chronicles and Collective Memory” acknowledges the ephemerality of memories, examining their veracity as well as their inaccuracies and ambiguities. One of the ideas of the show is to portray different methods, such as collecting material, tracing paths, recording or reproducing oral histories, and address the importance of personal experiences in the (re)construction of an event. It also considers the recollection of multiple memories as valuable material for rewriting a history that has not been recorded by the official narratives. In this way, it brings to light personal stories that have generally remained unnoticed.

“Between Personal Chronicles and Collective Memory” focuses on oral history and the production of knowledge transmitted verbally over generations. It reflects on the circulation of memories and how these are kept alive through orality. Part of the process is the creation of a collective memory, often marked by experiences of resistance, violence, or traumatic situations.

Curated by Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Additional programme: 5 June 2021, 11:00 - 14:00 h

Workshops in the public space and online with María Linares (online, September 2021), Daniela Lehmann Carrasco and Yoel Díaz Vázquez (online, August 2021)

Registrations via E-mail: contact (at) artatak.net

The exhibition is part of the programme of Rethinking Conceptualism: Avant-Garde, Activism and Politics in Latin American Art (1960s-1980s)

Address:

Instituto Cervantes Berlin

Rosenstr. 18, 10178 Berlin

Click here to read the interview with the artists by Hannah Katalin Grimmer

Photos: San Felipe, © Yoel Díaz Vázquez, 2005-2018; Le Glück Quantitativ, Video Still © Daniela Lehmann Carrasco, 2010; Elevación, Video Still © Ana María Millán, 2019; RENOMBREMOS EL 12 DE OCTUBRE, © María Linares, 2019

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Online Reading Session # 9: Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra “Touched Bodies: The Performative Turn in Latin American Art”

27 May 2021, 18:00 h (GMT +2) via Zoom

In this session, we will discuss with Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra the introduction, chapter 1 and the conclusion of her book “Touched Bodies: The Performative Turn in Latin American Art”, published by Rutgers in 2019.

Abstract of the publication:

What is the role of pleasure and pain in the politics of art? In “Touched Bodies”, Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra approaches this question as she examines the flourishing of live and intermedial performance in Latin America during times of authoritarianism and its significance during transitions to democracy. Based on original documents and innovative readings, her book brings politics and ethics to the discussion of artistic developments during the “long 1980s”. She describes the rise of performance art in the context of feminism, HIV-activism, and human right movements, taking a close look at the work of Diamela Eltit and Raúl Zurita from Chile, León Ferrari and Liliana Maresca from Argentina, and Marcos Kurtycz, the No Grupo art collective, and Proceso Pentágono from Mexico. The comparative study of the work of these artists attests to a performative turn in Latin American art during the 1980s that, like photography and film before, recast the artistic field as a whole, changing the ways in which we perceive art and understand its role in society.

Shortlisted for the 2020 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize and Winner of the 2019 Art Journal Prize from the College Art Association.

Additional reading material: Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra (2018) "Beyond Evil: Politics, Ethics, and Religion in León Ferrari’s Illustrated Nunca más", Art Journal, 77:3, 20-47

About the author:

MARA POLGOVSKY EZCURRA is an art historian and cultural theorist. She joined the History of Art Department at Birkbeck, University of London in 2018, after finishing her PhD and holding a Junior Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on contemporary Latin American Art and Intellectual History, with a particular emphasis on the politics of aesthetics, the body, and dimensions of agency and “liveness” in ecological and feminist artistic practice. She is the recipient of the 2019 Art Journal award and she is currently a Leverhulme Research Fellow. Her publications include the monograph “Touched Bodies: The Performative Turn in Latin American Art” (Rutgers University Press, 2019, shortlisted for the 2020 Book Prize of the Association for the Study of the Art of the Present), the forthcoming essay collection “Marcos Kurtycz: Corporeality Unbound” (Fauna-Jumex, 2021), and the edited volumes “Sabotage Art: Politics and Iconoclasm in Contemporary Latin America” (I.B. Tauris, 2016, edited with Sophie Halart), “Eugenio Polgovsky: Poetics of the Real/La poética de lo real” (Ambulante-Tecolote Films, 2020), and “Re-Public: The New Public Art in Mexico” (under review).

Coordination and moderation : Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Limited number of spaces available. Registration via Eventbrite.