Art Movements: Curators Named for El Museo's Latine Art Survey
Biennale shake-ups, a new leadership model for Manifesta, and Marina Abramović, wine whisperer?
Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.
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 iterations, La Trienal will feature works by artists of Latin American and Caribbean descent living in the United States, Puerto Rico, and around the world.
More Biennial Digest
- 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.
- 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.
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.
OMG, What Can't She Do!
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 and anti-aging 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:
The limited-edition bottles will be auctioned by Bonhams 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.
