Gala Berger

Gala Berger (Villa Gesell, Argentina, 1983) is a visual artist and independent curator, currently living in Lima, Perú. Berger's work is rooted in Latin America, and for the development of her projects she builds independent spaces. Co-founder of Casa MA [2018-2022] a community committed to the dissemination of creative practices generated by women and feminized bodies in the territory of Costa Rica, Central America and its diaspora. Berger has also worked extensively in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she is co-founder of the experimental museum La Ene (New Energy Museum of Contemporary Art 2010 - 2020), and co-founder of the Paraguay Printed Art Fair. Also between 2012 and 2014, she directed two exhibition spaces: Inmigrante [Immigrant] and Urgente [Urgent]. She has curated exhibitions at Malba (Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires); TEORéTica (San José); Reunión Independent space; Porcelain Museum of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), etc. Other projects include the direction of the Symposium: Feminist Orientations for a Confused World at the MADC (Costa Rica Museum of Contemporary and Design, 2019) in San José, Costa Rica. And recently she has coordinated the 2021-2022 residency program between LoCA (Livingstone, Zambia), OCA (Oslo, Norway) and Casa MA.