Clara Bolívar

Clara Bolívar is a researcher and curator of modern and contemporary art based in Tepoztlán, Mexico. She holds an MA in History from Universidad Iberoamericana and completed her degree in Cultural Sciences at Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana. Currently she is studying a PHD in Social Sciences and Humanities at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. She worked at Celda Contemporánea, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, Museo Nacional de Arte, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes and Centro de Documentación Arkheia at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo. There, she co-curated the exhibition “Helen Escobedo: Expanding art spaces”, 2017. She works independently from 2018, when she coordinated the workshop “Political stories of objects” at Biquini Wax. In 2019 she co-organized the studies circle “Objects before and after the wall” at Tlaxcala3 in Mexico City and Institute for Endotic Research in Berlin, project supported by Fundación Jumex Grant for Curatorial Research. In 2020 she coordinated the book “Artistic research on contemporary walls”, edited by Festina Publicaciones and managed from Tlaxcala3. In 2021 she curated the online exhibition “Follow the dust” at Art at a Time Like This. In 2022, she participated in the International Seminar “Art and Deindustrialization” at Concepción, Penco and Coronel, Chile. Since 2019 she is part of the GCAS Latin America collective. Her practice follows objects, materials, collaborative strategies in art and archive dust.