Diálogo en vivo: elements of performance

, María José Arjona lives and works in Bogotá. She has developed major bodies of work via residencies at El Proyecto LARA (Latin American Roaming Art) in Ecuador, Irregular Hexagon in Israel, TheatreWorks in Singapore, The Watermill Center in the United States, and Tact in Colombia. Notable solo exhibitions and performances include projects at Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany; FLORA ars + natura, Bogotá; Lucca Center of Contemporary Art, Italy; Location One, New York; NC-Arte, Bogotá; Ballroom Marfa, Texas; and Bass Museum of Art, Miami. This is her first museum survey exhibition.

She got an internship at the Tate Modern’s Curatorial Department (2008-2009) and took the first cycle of the Independent Study Program, at MACBA, Barcelona (2010).

She has worked as Program Coordinator at the Videoart Loop Festival, at the Cultural Department in Foundation “la Caixa” and was a Tutor at the Sala d’Art Jove as well as visiting professor at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. In a more international level she has worked as the curator of Mardin Biennial in Turkey. Currently, she is the director and Chief curator of NC-arte in Bogotá, Colombia where she has curated several exhibitions as well as has developed several educational programs.

Moreover, she has curated and co-curated numerous projects such as: Atlas #3. Topografías de Archipiélago at Cámara de Comercio of Bogotá (2016), Límites Nómadas, Bienal de las Fronteras de México in Tamaulipas, México, (2015) Fifty from Han Nefkens H+F Collection in collectorspace, Istanbul (2014), the cycle: Micro-actions of emergency at ADN Platform, Barcelona (2013-2014), Copy / Paste – Recodifying the gesture at the Instituto Cervantes in London (2013), Conclusion never comes – a reading on the Coleçao desenhos de Madeira, (Teixeira de Freitas) at Sala El Broncese for Foro Sur, Cáceres (2013), Past Forward for the Video art Loop Festival, Barcelona (2010), Like Tears in Rain at the Palacio das Artes in Porto (2010), Shaking Idiosyncrasies in the gallery Hold and Freight, London (2009) and Producing Urban Order at Goldsmiths University, London (2008). She is currently preparing a co-curated exhibition by Cildo Meireles to be presented at the Museum of Banco de la República in Bogotá, Colombia.

She has curated exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Haverford College, Philadelphia; and The Kitchen, New York. In 2015 she co-founded Marfa Sounding: an ongoing series of performances, sound installations, and talks that explore the relationship between music and sculpture. As a writer she has contributed to publications including The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Studies in French Cinema, Bomb, Revista Código, Works + Days Quarterly, ART HAPS, Afterall, and Frieze as well as artist monographs for Brian Weil (Semiotext(e)/MIT Press), Godfried Donkor (ARTCO Gallery, London), Alexandra Navratil (Roma Publications/Kunstmuseum Winterthur), Raphael Montañez Ortiz (LABOR, Mexico City), and Eduardo Abaroa (Athénée Press/Museo Amparo). A graduate of Cambridge University (Ph.D) and Princeton University (A.B.), she was a 2010–2011 Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program and the 2011–2013 Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art. She is currently a tutor and guest lecturer at FLORA ars + natura, Bogotá and Williams College, Massachusetts.

, María José Arjona lives and works in Bogotá. She has developed major bodies of work via residencies at El Proyecto LARA (Latin American Roaming Art) in Ecuador, Irregular Hexagon in Israel, TheatreWorks in Singapore, The Watermill Center in the United States, and Tact in Colombia. Notable solo exhibitions and performances include projects at Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany; FLORA ars + natura, Bogotá; Lucca Center of Contemporary Art, Italy; Location One, New York; NC-Arte, Bogotá; Ballroom Marfa, Texas; and Bass Museum of Art, Miami. This is her first museum survey exhibition.

She got an internship at the Tate Modern’s Curatorial Department (2008-2009) and took the first cycle of the Independent Study Program, at MACBA, Barcelona (2010).

She has worked as Program Coordinator at the Videoart Loop Festival, at the Cultural Department in Foundation “la Caixa” and was a Tutor at the Sala d’Art Jove as well as visiting professor at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. In a more international level she has worked as the curator of Mardin Biennial in Turkey. Currently, she is the director and Chief curator of NC-arte in Bogotá, Colombia where she has curated several exhibitions as well as has developed several educational programs.

Moreover, she has curated and co-curated numerous projects such as: Atlas #3. Topografías de Archipiélago at Cámara de Comercio of Bogotá (2016), Límites Nómadas, Bienal de las Fronteras de México in Tamaulipas, México, (2015) Fifty from Han Nefkens H+F Collection in collectorspace, Istanbul (2014), the cycle: Micro-actions of emergency at ADN Platform, Barcelona (2013-2014), Copy / Paste – Recodifying the gesture at the Instituto Cervantes in London (2013), Conclusion never comes – a reading on the Coleçao desenhos de Madeira, (Teixeira de Freitas) at Sala El Broncese for Foro Sur, Cáceres (2013), Past Forward for the Video art Loop Festival, Barcelona (2010), Like Tears in Rain at the Palacio das Artes in Porto (2010), Shaking Idiosyncrasies in the gallery Hold and Freight, London (2009) and Producing Urban Order at Goldsmiths University, London (2008). She is currently preparing a co-curated exhibition by Cildo Meireles to be presented at the Museum of Banco de la República in Bogotá, Colombia.

She has curated exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Haverford College, Philadelphia; and The Kitchen, New York. In 2015 she co-founded Marfa Sounding: an ongoing series of performances, sound installations, and talks that explore the relationship between music and sculpture. As a writer she has contributed to publications including The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Studies in French Cinema, Bomb, Revista Código, Works + Days Quarterly, ART HAPS, Afterall, and Frieze as well as artist monographs for Brian Weil (Semiotext(e)/MIT Press), Godfried Donkor (ARTCO Gallery, London), Alexandra Navratil (Roma Publications/Kunstmuseum Winterthur), Raphael Montañez Ortiz (LABOR, Mexico City), and Eduardo Abaroa (Athénée Press/Museo Amparo). A graduate of Cambridge University (Ph.D) and Princeton University (A.B.), she was a 2010–2011 Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program and the 2011–2013 Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art. She is currently a tutor and guest lecturer at FLORA ars + natura, Bogotá and Williams College, Massachusetts.