VIP PROGRAM | ESTE TERTULIA | Carla Zaccagnini
Charlotte Laubard, Curator (France)
Veronica Cordeiro, Curator, (Uruguay/Brazil)
in conversation with Carla Zaccagnini, Artist (Argentina)

Carla Zaccagnini (Buenos Aires, 1973 – Lives and works in São Paulo and Malmö) has a masters in Visual Poetics from the Escola de Comunicação e Artes of São Paulo University. She recently received a grant from the KfW Stiftung program of the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, 2013-14). Among others, she participated in the exhibitions 8th Berlin Biennale (Berlin, 2014), 9th Shanghai Biennale (Shanghai, 2012), 2nd Biennale de Benin (Cotonou, 2012), Planos de Fuga, una exposición en obras (CCBBSP, 2012), Modelos para Armar: Pensar Latinoamérica desde la colección MUSAC (León, Spain, 2010) and 28th Bienal de São Paulo (2008). Recent solo shows include Pelas Bordas (Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, 2013), Plano de falla (Ignacio Liprandi, Buenos Aires, 2011), Imposible pero necesario (Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, 2010) and no. it is opposition. (Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, 2008). Her work has been included in the compendium Cream 3 (London: Phaidon Press, 2003), Contemporary Art Brazil (Thames and Hudson, London 2012) and Art Cities of the Future, 21st- Century Avant-Gardes (London: Phaidon Press, 2013), and is currently represented by the galleries Vermelho

Charlotte Laubard (France) is Art History and Theory professor and researcher at Geneva University of Art and Design since 2013. She directed CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2006-2013), was the consultant for Viktor Pinchuk Foundation in Kiev (2005-06), assistant curator at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea of Turin (2002-05) and curatorial associate at PS1 COntemporary Art Centre in New York (1999-2000). She has also created several projects as an independent curator and currently develops the Nouveaux Commanditaires in Switzerland.

Veronica Cordeiro (Brazil-Uruguay) is the curator of the Photography Centre of Montevideo (CdF) since January 2013, where she commissioned new work by Rosângela Rennó (2011), Dias & Riedweg (2013), among others. Co-curator of the Uruguay Pavilion at the 55th Biennale di Venezia (2013), recent curatorships include residencies and survey exhibitions of Cao Guimarães, Tamara Cubas, Ernesto Vila. With the support of ICI-NY in 2011 she founded Surcontexto, an organization devoted to researching curating in trans-disciplinary and ethnographic contexts. She writes regularly for catalogues and magazines and participates in the Jury of prestigious prizes in Uruguay, Argentina, Canada and Holland.