About the curatorial team
Moacir dos Anjos and Agnaldo Farias, Chief Curators,
Rina Carvajal and Sarat Maharaj, Guest Curators,
Fernando Alvim, Yuko Hasegawa and Chus Martinez, Correspondents.
Moacir dos Anjos (Recife, 1963) is a researcher at the Fundação Joaquim Nabuco since 1990. He was a curator at the Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães (Mamam), in Recife (2001-2006) and a member of the curatorial team of the Rumos Itaú Cultural Artes Visuais program (2001-2003), São Paulo. Mr. Dos Anjos was co-curator of the Mercosul Biennial (2007), Porto Alegre, and of the 10+1. Geração da Virada exhibition (2006), at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo. He also has curated the following exhibitions: Contraditório - Panorama da Arte Brasileira (2007) at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo; Rosângela Rennó (2006) at Mamam, Recife; Babel - Cildo Meireles (2006) at Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo; Ernesto Neto/Rivane Neuenschwander (2003) and Adoração - Nelson Leirner (2002), both at Mamam, Recife. He has published articles on art theory and history, in addition to reviews of artists in books, catalogs and magazines. His most recent articles are “Where All Places Are”, in Cildo Meireles (London: Tate, 2008) and “Artur Barrio”, in Artur Barrio (Porto: Museu Serralves, 2011, in preparation), and he is the author of Local/Global: arte em trânsito (Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 2005).
Agnaldo Farias (Itajubá, 1955) is an art critic and curator who creates projects for the Instituto Tomie Ohtake in São Paulo. He was chief curator at the Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro (1998/2000) and director of temporary exhibitions at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea at the University of São Paulo (1990/1993). Mr. Farias holds a master’s degree in Social History from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and a PhD degree from the College of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo, where he currently teaches. He has written essays published in Brazil and abroad. Some of the exhibitions he has curated include: 1994, Bienal Brasil Século XX; (1994), Fundação Bienal de São Paulo; 1995, the 1st Johannesburg Biennial and the 46th Venice Biennale (with Nelson Aguilar); 1996, the 23th São Paulo International Biennial (with Nelson Aguilar); 2002, the 25th São Paulo International Biennial (Brazilian Representation); 2002, Faxinal das Artes (Residence Program in Faxinal do Céu); 2003, Ordenação e Vertigem, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo; 2004, Nelson Leirner 1994+10, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba and Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo.
Rina Carvajal, art curator and critic. Ms. Carvajal is an adjunct curator at the Miami Art Museum since 2007. She was the executive director and chief curator of Miami Art Central from 2004 to 2007 and, previously, the director of the Mason Gross Art Galleries at Rutgers University. Ms. Carvajal was a curator at the 24th Bienal de São Paulo in 1998, and a member of the curatorial team at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (MoCA LA) from 1997 to 2000. Prior to that, she was curator of contemporary art at the Museo de Bellas Artes and deputy director of the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, both in Caracas, Venezuela. Ms. Carvajal did her graduate studies in Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts, of New York University. She curated, among others, "Carlos Cruz Diez: The Embodied Experience of Color," 2009, Miami Art Museum; "Tacita Dean: Film Works," 2007, Miami Art Central; and "The Experimental Exercise of Freedom: Lygia Clark, Gego, Mathias Goeritz, Helio Oiticia and Mira Schendel," 2000, at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Sarat Maharaj was born in South Africa and studied in one of the racially segregated universities during the Apartheid years. He wrote his PhD dissertation in England on ‘The Dialectics of Modernism and Mass Culture: Studies in Postwar British Art’. From 1980 to 2005, Mr. Maharaj was a professor of art history and theory at Goldsmiths in London, where he currently works as a visiting research professor. Currently, he is a visual arts and information systems professor at the University of Lund and the Art Academy of Malmö, Sweden. Mr. Maharaj has also taught and done research in Berlin (2001-02) and Maastricht (1999-2001). His research and publications have focused on Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce and Richard Hamilton. He was co-curator of Documenta XI (Kassel, 2002) and together with Richard Hamilton and Ecke Bonk, he curated ‘Retinal. Optical. Visual. Conceptual on Duchamp’ in Rotterdam, 2002. He was also co-curator of the Guangzhou Triennial, 2008, and editor/curator of Printed Projects 11 (Dublin) ‘Querying the GT 2008,’ Northern Ireland Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2009.
Fernando Alvim is vice president of the Sindika Dokolo Foundation and one of the main players in the art scene in Angola. Working simultaneously as an artist and an exhibition curator, Mr. Alvim took to Brussels, in 1999, Camouflage, an exhibition space with the goal of increasing visibility of African art in Europe. Recently, he created and directed the Luanda Art Triennial, one of the main platforms for contemporary Angolan art. He was the commissioner, along with Simon Njami, of the “Check List – Luanda Pop” project during the 2007 Venice Biennale, showcasing the work of close to 30 African artists and offering an overview of the most significant African art being produced nowadays.
Yuko Hasegawa was the chief curator of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, in Kanazawa, between 1999 and 2006. Since then, she is the chief curator of MOT, Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. She is also a member of the International Committee of Modern Art Museums and Collections. She was a member of the 1999 Venice Biennale international jury, artistic director of the 7th Istanbul Biennial in 2001, and member of the jury for the Hugo Boss Award in 2002. Ms. Hasegawa was the co-curator of the 4th Shanghai Biennial in 2002 and commissioner of the Japanese Pavilion in the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. Her exhibitions include “When Lives Become Form: Brazilian Contemporary Art, 1960s to the Present”, YBCA Galleries, 2009, and “De-Genderism – de’truire dit-elle/il” at the Setagaya Art Museum, 1997. She also teaches Art History at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
Chus Martinez is the chief curator at Museu d'Art Contemporani in Barcelona (MACBA) since 2008. She was the curator at La Caixa Foundation’s Sala Montcada in Barcelona between 2001 and 2002, and at the Sala Rekalde in Bilbao, Spain, between 2002 and 2005. From 2005 to 2008, she was the director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein. Ms. Martinez holds a degree in Philosophy and Art History from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Freie Universität in Berlin, as well as Curator degree from the Center for Curatorial Studies from Bard College in New York. Her doctoral thesis discussed the interface between esthetics and art philosophy. Ms. Martinez curated, among others, “The Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds”, 2005, at Cypriot Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale, 2005, and “The Unanimous Life – Deimantas Narkevicius” exhibition at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
