Veronica Cordeiro is a Brazilian artist, curator and writer based in Montevideo, Uruguay. Working independently since 2021, she has focussed on the creation of the organization Studio Tierra, devoted to researching, curating and promoting contemporary art and design connected to nature, sustainability and ancestral wisdom, with a focus on Latin America. In 2025, Studio Tierra’s first edition of La Tierra Habla project inaugurates in an underground public gallery in Montevideo, Uruguay. Cordeiro commissioned German artist Lukas Kühne to create his first sound sculpture entirely made from earth, no additional elements, including soil from all departments in the country. 100 trucks of soil, a monumental sound sculpture entirely built from compacted earth, 2 months construction-installation period, 6 month-long exhibition. An intense, interdisciplinary parallel program with talks, workshops and a film cycle accompany the show, bringing together artists, environmentalists, sustainable designers, indigenous leaders and anthropologists to exchange ideas and experiences about our relationship with Earth.
Veronica has always been interested in the power of art to communicate, generate consciousness and inspire connection and transformation. She created the concept of Curating in Context, focussing on long-term projects and commissions with artists like Rosângela Rennó (Rio-Montevideo, CdF, Montevideo 2011 and Photographers Gallery London, 2016); Cao Guimarães (Le Monde Atmosphère, Galleries Xippas, Paris, 2011), Angela Berlinde (Transa. Baladas do último sol, Museo Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Portugal, 2023), Ananké Asseff (Latir, CdF, Montevideo, 2017), among others. She curated the Uruguayan Pavilion at Venice Biennial in 2013 and joined the curatorial teams of the XXIV and XXV Bienal de São Paulo, the 9th Bienal do Mercosul and the XII Bienal de Curitiba.
She has an MA Honors Degree in Art History from Edinburgh University and an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London. After starting a PhD as an ethnographic artist and researcher, she moved to Uruguay in 2009 where she created the curatorial department of the Centro de Fotografia, overseeing its implementation and growth as Chief Curator for 7 years. At CdF she created the new international photography festival, MUFF, an interdisciplinary 2-year long project that became a model for its focus on community activation and educational platforms. In its first edition created and curated by Cordeiro, more than 110 artists participated in longterm research- based platforms from Latin America, the US and Europe under the guidance of guest collaborators Luis Camnitzer, Rosângela Rennó, Pio Figueiroa, Fredi Casco and Mauricio Lissovsky.
Cordeiro is also a writer interested in the intricate link between art and life. She recently finished her first novel based on the story of an ex-prisoner who discovered art in jail and transformed his life from drug-related crime to community leadership and social and economic development.
