Raphael Fonseca is the Visual Arts Programmer at Culturgest, Lisbon, and Curator of the 37th São Paulo Bienal (2027) with Amanda Carneiro. He was also a curator for the 3rd Counterpublic Triennial (2026), the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2026), the 14th Mercosur Biennial (2025),and the 22nd SESC Videobrasil Biennale (2023). From 2021 to 2026, he was the curator of modern and contemporary Latin American art at the Denver Art Museum. Prior to this he worked as a curator at MAC Niterói (Contemporary Art Museum of Niterói, Brazil) since 2017. The juxtaposition of different temporalities and how this can trigger contemporary reflections for audiences is crucial in his practice. Humor, absurdity, pop culture, and the notion that an exhibition relates to the ideas of assembly, set design, and spectacle have grown among his research interests. He works with artists from everywhere but with a more significant focus on the ones born and/or based in the so-called Global South. He holds a PhD in Critic and Art History (State University of Rio de Janeiro).
Raphael Fonseca
Photo: Justin Solomon
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