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# ​​​​Art Movements: Curators Named for El Museo's Latine Art Survey
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/art-movements-curators-named-for-el-museos-latine-art-survey/
- Published: 2026-04-30T17:58:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-30T17:58:50.000Z
- Description: Biennale shake-ups, a new leadership model for Manifesta, and Marina Abramović, wine whisperer?
- Author: Valentina Di Liscia
- Tags: Community, Art Movements

[*Art Movements,*](https://hyperallergic.com/tag/art-movements/) *published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.*

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### *La Trienal* Curators Announced

El Museo del Barrio has announced the curatorial team for the 2027 edition of *La Trienal*, the East Harlem institution's landmark survey of Latine contemporary art. The show will be organized by **Susanna V. Temkin**, interim chief Curator at El Museo; **Zuna Maza**, assistant curator; and guest curator **Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas**, previously curator and director of exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park. As in [past](https://hyperallergic.com/el-museo-triennial-estamos-bien/) [iterations](https://hyperallergic.com/best-new-york-city-art-shows-of-2024/), *La Trienal* will feature works by artists of Latin American and Caribbean descent living in the United States, Puerto Rico, and around the world.

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### More Biennial Digest

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/04/feavila_000451630006_baixa.jpg)

Amanda Carneiro and Raphael Fonseca (© Fe Avila, courtesy Fundação Bienal de São Paulo)

- **Amanda** **Carneiro** and **Raphael** **Fonseca** were named chief curators of the 37th Bienal de São Paulo, taking place in 2027.
- The jury of the 61st Venice Biennale — **Elvira** **Dyangani Ose**, **Zoe Butt**, **Marta Kuzma**, **Giovanna Zapperi**, and **Solange Farkas** — resigned today, April 30, a week after stating its decision to omit Russia and Israel from awards consideration. Read more in [*Hyperallergic*](https://hyperallergic.com/venice-biennale-jury-resigns/).
- Brazilian artist and filmmaker **Marcello** **Dantas** was named senior curator of the next Vancouver Biennale.
- Artist and curator **Liu** **Ding** and art historian **Carol** **Yinghua** **Lu** will curate the 19th Istanbul Biennial.

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### Stepping Down and Stepping Up

- **Hedwig Fijen** will step down as director of Manifesta, the pan-European biennial she helped found in 1991\. Starting in October, **Emilia van Lynden** will serve as general director and **Catherine Nichols** as artistic director in a new co-leadership model.
- Buffalo AKG Art Museum announced that **Janne Sirén** will resign from his post as the institution's 11th director.
- **Kate** **Kraczon** was named chief curator at the Montclair Art Museum. She comes from the Bell Gallery at Brown University, where she was director of exhibitions and chief curator.
- **Charlie** **White** has been appointed dean of WashU’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

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### OMG, What *Can't* She Do!

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/04/image-73.png)

Marina Abramović for Ornellaia's "Vendemmia d’Artista" project (photo Marco Anelli, courtesy Ornellaia)

This is not a drill! That is indeed Marina Abramović posing with the fruits of her latest creative endeavor: wine labels, which, if you don't think about it too hard, seem like the natural progression of a career that spans [endurance performance](https://hyperallergic.com/marina-abramovic-shaman-of-late-capitalism-royal-academy-london/) and [anti-aging skincare](https://hyperallergic.com/marina-abramovics-latest-performance-is-skincare/). 

One of her custom designs for the Ornellaia wine estate reads “Slowly Drink Wine With Eyes Closed And Listen to the Music” (yes ma’am), while another features a truly terrifying image sequence depicting Abramović disappearing into a Medusa-esque mass of grapes and her own hair:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/04/image-74.png)

Scary! (image courtesy Ornellaia)

The limited-edition bottles will be auctioned by [Bonhams](https://tracking.us.nylas.com/l/834e77eddd3f47269addcb85ecd698d8/6/57c0a771127687be2b63e8f753ce90bd37881b6e5156aa3bffa49e8c3a85f7a2?cache%5Fbuster=1777560674&ref=hyperallergic.com) this summer to benefit the *Guggenheim Pop* exhibition at the New York museum. I would like to note that I sensibly held back from making a silly little joke, like “the artist is drinking,” although, well, oops.