Juliana Caffé

Juliana Caffé (b. São Paulo, 1983) is a curator and researcher on contemporary art. She is currently a PhD student at the Postgraduate Program in Aesthetics and Art History at the University of São Paulo USP. She holds postgraduate specialization in Curatorship from the University of Cape Town UCT (South Africa); and in Art: History, Criticism, and Curating from PUCSP. She worked at the Associação Cultural Videobrasil between 2013 and 2017, on the programming of the exhibitions and other activities of GalpãoVB. She understands her practice at the intersection of disciplines, articulating research, experimental projects, expanding artistic connections between countries through curatorial projects and generating meetings and debates around the field of art. She has been curating exhibitions in Brazil, South Africa, Cuba, Bolivia and Uruguai in recent years, and has participated in artistic residencies such as Independent Curators International ICI (Accra, 2017), A4 Arts Foundation (Cape Town, 2017), Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo EAC (Montevideo, 2019), No Lugar (Quito, 2021), Kiosko (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, 2021), and Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, 2022). Selected curatorial works includes: the seminar Regarding Latin America | Political and Cultural Overview at Videobrasil (São Paulo, 2017), the exhibitions How to Remain Silent? at the A4 Arts Foundation (Cape Town, South Africa, 2017); From Silence to Memory at Paço das Artes (São Paulo, Brazil, 2018); Conversations in Gondwana at São Paulo Cultural Center CCSP (São Paulo, Brazil, 2019, co-curator Juliana Gontijo); A Continent for Caliban at Factoría Habana (Havana, Cuba, 2020); Cuando no hay sombra es mediodía at Nube Gallery, Kiosko (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolívia, 2021); Kwa yepé turusu yuriri assojaba tupinambá at Galeria Fayga Ostrower and Casa da Lenha (Brasília/Porto Seguro, Brazil, 2021, co-curator Augustin de Tugny, Glicéria Tupinambá, Juliana Gontijo); and Hilo at EAC (Montevideo, Uruguai, 2022, co-curator Juliana Gontijo).