Public Symposium: Curatorial Intensive Montevideo

Top row, left to right: Sebastián Valenzuela-Valdivia, Juaniko Moreno, Cecilia González Godino, Santiago Ávila Albuja. Middle row: Camila Arbeláez, Luiza Testa (Photo: Felipe Perazzolo), Mateus Nunes (Photo: Lucas Nunes), Paola Nava. Bottom row: Andrés Gorzycki (Photo: Augustine Paredes), Fabiana Puentes, Bruna Costa (Photo: Raphaela Campano), Guad Creche (Photo: Rodrigo Salinas).

Mar 21, 2026
2–6 pm

Montevideo, Uruguay

Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales

Tomás Giribaldi 2283 (esquina Julio Herrera y Reissig)
Parque Rodó, Montevideo

Este evento es gratuito, abierto al público y se realizará en español.

Para concluir el Intensivo Curatorial de ICI en Montevideo, los participantes presentarán las propuestas de exposición y proyectos que han desarrollado a lo largo de los ocho días del programa. Esta edición de nuestro Intensivo se centra en prácticas curatoriales emergentes que fortalecen las infraestructuras culturales, fomentan la creación artística y unen a las comunidades a través de experiencias compartidas. Se nutre de la escena artística uruguaya y su relación con los movimientos culturales en América Latina.

Horario:

14 h: Saludos de bienvenida
Roxana Fabius, Directora, Museo Nacional de Arte Visuales (MNAV)
Laura Bardier, Directora, ESTE ARTE
Renaud Proch, Director Ejecutivo y Artistico, ICI

Introducciónes de los paneles de Keyna Eleison (Curadora, Amazones Biennal y Co-curadora at Large, 36th Bienal De São Paulo)

1430 h: Territorios en movimiento
Bruna Costa, Paola Nava, Fabiana Puentes, Andrés Gorzycki

1530 h: Break

16 h: La curaduría como coaprendizaje
Guad Creche, Luiza Testa, Santiago Ávila Albuja, Mateus Nunes

17 h: Dispositivos de especulación colectiva
Sebastián Valenzuela-Valdivia, Juaniko Moreno, Camila Arbaláez

This event is free, open to the public, and will be held in Spanish.

To conclude ICI's Curatorial Intensive in Montevideo, participants will present the exhibition and project proposals they have developed throughout the course of the eight-day program. This edition of our Intensive focuses on emerging curatorial practices that strengthen cultural infrastructures, foster artistic creation, and bring communities together through shared experiences. It draws from Uruguay’s artistic scene and its relationship to cultural movements across Latin America.

Presenters

Bruna Costa

Bruna Costa is an art historian, independent curator, and professor who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.

Paola Nava

Paola Nava (Maracaibo, 1994) is a Venezuelan curator, researcher, and writer based in Santiago, Chile.

Fabiana Puentes

Fabiana Puentes (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1986) is an independent curator, researcher, and professor specializing in contemporary art and critical perspectives.

Andrés Gorzycki

Andrés Gorzycki is a curator and visual artist based in Posadas, Argentina. Their practice explores the intersections between contemporary art and public space, investigating how artworks, contexts, and communities shape one another through acts of presence, displacement, and encounter.

Luiza Testa

Luiza Testa is an independent curator who works on projects that articulate social debates in the fields of feminism, sexuality, ecology, and digital art.

Guad Creche

Guad Creche (Salta, 1985) is an independent art curator and teacher. Their work focuses on supporting critical or experimental artistic processes and exploring the tensions between the local and the global, with an emphasis on diverse identities and contemporary practices from the Northwest region of Argentina.

Mateus Nunes

Mateus Nunes (Belém, 1997) is a Brazilian curator and art critic based in São Paulo, and is Assistant Curator at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP).

Santiago Ávila Albuja

Santiago Ávila Albuja (Quito, Ecuador, 1993) is a visual artist whose independent curatorial practice focuses on artistic processes linked to queer identities from an ecosocial perspective.

Juaniko Moreno

Juaniko Moreno is a curator and researcher based in New York and Bogotá. He specializes in modern and contemporary art, with a focus on alternative modernities, cosmotechnics, spirituality, and planetarity.

Camila Arbeláez

Camila Arbeláez (b. Bogotá, Colombia; based in Uruguay) is an independent curator and researcher. Her research interests encompass contemporary Latin American art, memory, bodies, and ecologies, with a focus on interdisciplinary explorations.

Sebastián Valenzuela-Valdivia

Sebastián Valenzuela-Valdivia (Santiago, Chile, 1990) is a researcher, curator, and editor of contemporary art. His practice lies at the intersection of historical research, archival work, and publishing, understood as critical infrastructures for reactivating memories and challenging narratives.

Funding Credits
The Curatorial Intensive is made possible by a grant from Teiger Foundation, and by generous contributions from ICI’s Board of Trustees and Leadership Council. Additional support to the scholarship fund was provided by ERA Foundation, Mohamed Julien Ndao, and the Instituto Nacional de Artes Visuales (INAV) of the Dirección Nacional de Cultura of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay.

About ESTE ARTE
ESTE ARTE is an international art fair, held each January in José Ignacio, Uruguay. Under the direction of Laura Bardier, it presents a rigorous curatorial selection of galleries alongside a cultural summit of talks, performances, and public programs. As a pioneering platform, ESTE ARTE fosters dialogue between regional and international audiences, expands visibility for artists, and has radically reshaped the cultural landscape of the region.

About the Faculty of Arts (Udelar)
The Faculty of Arts is the academic department of the Universidad de la República Uruguay (Udelar) whose purpose is to develop the arts in the university context, through its three functions–teaching, research, and outreach–at the intersection of multiple languages of artistic practice.