Curated Programmes 2027

Founded in 2005 by Max Andrews (1975 Bath) and Mariana Cánepa Luna (1977 Montevideo), Latitudes is a Barcelona-based curatorial office that works internationally across contemporary art practices. Their practice advocates critical and situated approaches, focusing on the articulation of art, ecological change, and art institutions as interdependent systems of memory, encounter, and preservation.

Latitudes has curated over fifty initiatives across diverse formats and situations — from exhibitions and public-space commissions to discursive or live programs, as well as editorial projects. They have curated exhibitions and projects at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2025), the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles (2025), MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2016 and 2021), Fabra i Coats: Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2018 and 2020), CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2017), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Castilla y León (MUSAC) (2011), Kunsthal Århus (2011), New Museum, New York (2010), Tate Modern, London (2010), the Port of Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2009– 10), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2008), among others.

They are preparing a solo exhibition of Santa Cruz-based duo Pérez y Requena for TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (July–October 2026) and one of the two curated sections in the art fair ARCOmadrid (March 2027).

Max has been a regular contributor to Frieze magazine since 2004 and, since 2024, also writes for Artforum. Mariana served as secretary of the board of Hangar, Centre for Artistic Production and Research, Barcelona (2015–2019), after previously serving on its Programmes Commission (2010–2013). Between 2024 and 2026, she served as Advisor to the Committee of Patrimonialisation and Acquisition of Contemporary Art of the National Collection of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

Since 2022, they have been Active Members of the international network Gallery Climate Coalition and were part of the founding committee of its Spanish node (2022–2024).

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João Mourão and Luís Silva are a curatorial duo whose practice began in 2009, when they co-founded Kunsthalle Lissabon as a platform for experimental institutional models. They were the curators of the Portugal Pavilion at the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale (2022) with Vampires in Space, a solo project by Isadora Neves Marques.

A selection of recent projects includes solo exhibitions by Inês Zenha (CA2M, Madrid, Spain and CAM Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal), Mounira Al Solh (Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal), Jonathas de Andrade (CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France and MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal), Manuela Solano (Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil), among others.

As co-directors of Kunsthalle Lissabon, they have presented solo exhibitions by June Crespo, Saodat Ismailova, Teresa Solar, La Chola Poblete, Gabriel Chaile, Ad Minoliti, Zheng Bo, Laure Prouvost, Caroline Mesquita, Bruno Zhu, Sol Calero, Petrit Halilaj, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, among many others.

Alongside their curatorial practice, they contribute regularly to various publications and have edited several monographs. They were the curators of ZONA MACO SUR (2015 – 2017), in Mexico City and Artissima's Disegni section (2017 -2019), in Turin.

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Rafa Barber Cortell is an independent curator and writer based between London and Madrid. His practice combines fiction and essay with experimental exhibition and discursive formats, exploring new ways of constructing alternative imaginaries through art.

He has worked as Associate Editor at Concreta and collaborated with the editorial platform Afterall in London. His texts and interviews have appeared in ADesk, Concreta, this is tomorrow, and Frieze. Among his recent curatorial projects are Bajar la voz. Miguel Benlloch at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville (2025); Simone Fattal. Suspension of Disbelief at IVAM, Valencia (2024); Fantástico interior, a cycle of four exhibitions at La Casa Encendida (2022) with exhibitions by artists such as Ad Minoliti and Korakrit Arunanondchai; and Absolute Beginners, a program of exhibitions at CentroCentro (2019–2020) that included exhibitions by Tai Shani, Florence Peake, and Patricia Domínguez, among others.

In 2018, he completed a Master’s degree in Curating at the Royal College of Art, London, with the support of a Botín Foundation scholarship. He is currently undertaking doctoral research at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Bernardo Mosqueira is a curator, writer, and researcher based in New York. He is the founder and artistic director of Solar in Rio de Janeiro and director of Prêmio FOCO ArtRio. From 2023 to 2025, he served as Chief Curator at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), following his tenure on the curatorial team at the New Museum (2021–2023). Between 2011 and 2014, Mosqueira organized the performance festival Vênus Terra, and from 2011 to 2015 he was a curator at Galeria de Arte Ibeu. In 2020, he co-founded Fundo Colaborativo, the first emergency fund dedicated to artists and art workers in Brazil. Recent exhibitions include Ney Matogrosso: Eu Prefiro Ser (Solar, 2026); Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro: Eterno Vulnerável (Solar, 2025); Diana Dowek: Uprising in the Mirror (ISLAA, 2025); Luis Fernando Benedit: Invisible Labyrinths (ISLAA, 2024); Korakrit Arunanondchai: but the words make worlds (Solar, 2024); Wynnie Mynerva: The Original Riot and Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart / Mi corazón latiente (New Museum, 2023). He was part of the curatorial team for the fifth New Museum Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone (2021). Mosqueira received the Lorenzo Bonaldi Prize in 2017 and the Vilcek Foundation Prize in Curatorial Work in 2025. Mosqueira holds a master’s degree in curatorial studies from CCS Bard (2021).

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Marielsa Castro Vizcarra is a curator whose practice operates at the intersection of pedagogy and curating. She is currently the Chief Curator of the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín.

Between 2021 and 2025, she served as Associate Curator at Museo Jumex, where she was responsible for exhibitions, public programmes, and the community-based initiative Museos en común. Previously, from 2017 to 2019, she led the public and educational programmes of the Arts Unit of Banco de la República in Bogotá, developing initiatives with communities traditionally excluded from museum spaces. From 2012 to 2015, she directed LIGA | Space for Architecture | DF, an exhibition platform dedicated to the promotion of contemporary Latin American architecture.

Marielsa holds a degree in Architecture from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and a Master's degree in Art, Design and the Public Domain from Harvard University.

José Esparza Chong Cuy is a curator, writer, editor, and architect from Mexico serving as the Executive Director and Chief Curator at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. Additionally, he sits at the curatorial council of the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City and is co-editor of the forthcoming book, Empty Plinths: Monuments, Memorials, and Public Sculpture in Mexico, to be released in 2024 by Harvard University.

Prior to arriving at Storefront in 2018, he was Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Museo Jumex in Mexico City. Between 2007-2012 he lived in New York and held positions as Curatorial Associate at Storefront for Art and Architecture, Research Fellow at the New Museum, and contributing editor at Domus magazine. In 2013 he was co-curator of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. He is a graduate of Columbia University’s M.S. in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture.