Strong female artists in South America: how women encountered in art a space to express themselves in an oppressive context of South America between the 1950’s and the 1980’s. Marina’s talk contextualizes new books added to the library through second shelf. These include books on Lygia Pape, Lygia Clark, Teresa Burga, Ana Maria Maiolino and Cecilia Vicuña, as well as the exhibition catalogue Radical Women from Latin America.
Born in 1978, in São Paulo, Marina Coelho holds a Master in Curating Contemporary Art from the University of Arts of Zurich (ZHDK). In 2012, she founded KUNSTHALLE São Paulo, a contemporary art institution, where she had developed projects with several international artists for the period of five year. She was awarded a scholarship by the Independent Curators International (ICI) to take part of the Curatorial Intensive course, held at the Mori Museum in Tokyo (2013), and has been several times visiting lecturer at HISK, in Ghent, and at the ZHdK, in Zurich.
In earlier years, Marina Coelho took part of the museology internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, in Venice, and worked as exhibition producer at Galeria Leme, in São Paulo. Since February 2017, Marina Coelho is based in Ghent, Belgium, where she is developing a new theoretical research and other international curatorial projects. She has recently been on a research residency in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
PRACTICAL
Tuesday 4.12. 2018, 6pm
Library of the Royal Academy, Mutsaardstraat 31, 2000 Antwerp
Free, no reservation so come early