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INTI GUERRERO

-APPOINTED AS THE CURATOR OF EVA INTERNATIONAL – IRELAND’S BIENNIAL 2018

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EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial Limerick City
14/4/2018-8/7/2018


EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial is pleased to announce that Inti Guerrero has been appointed as the Curator of the 38th edition of EVA International in 2018.
Inti Guerrero (b. 1983, Bogotá, Colombia) is a young and highly acclaimed curator who is based in Hong Kong. Guerrero is currently a curator of Latin American Art at Tate in London and was previously
After studying History and Theory of Art and Architecture at the University of Los Andes in Colombia and the University of São Paulo in Brazil, he completed the Curatorial Programme at De Appel arts centre in Amsterdam.
Commenting on Inti Guerrero’s appointment Woodrow Kernohan, Director/ CEO of EVA International said: ‘We are delighted that Inti has accepted our invitation to be the Curator of the 38th edition of EVA in 2018 and very much look forward to working with him to develop his programme for Ireland’s Biennial and the open call for artists’ proposals that will be launched later this year.’
Associate Artistic Director and Curator at TEOR/éTica, an independent not-for-profit art space in San José, Costa Rica.

Inti Guerrero commented:
"I am deeply honoured to have been invited to be the Curator of the 2018 edition of EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial; a groundbreaking exhibition that has contributed to reimagining internationalisms. I look forward to working with artists and the EVA team to develop the Biennial program for the city, its audiences, and continuing the dialogue with previous appointed Curators whom I hold in great regard." 

Posted 28 July 2016

The 38th edition of EVA International will open to the public on 14 April and run until 8 July 2018. Artists’ projects will be selected through an international open and invited call for proposalsthat will be launched in September 2016.

The 2018 edition follows the success of the 37th edition of EVA International in 2016. Still (the) Barbarians was curated by Koyo Kouoh –

Still (the) Barbarians featured works by 57 artists (9 from Ireland and 48 from the rest of the world) including 22 new commissions and presentations, and attracted over 100,000 local and international visitors to see 297 artworks at seven locations across the city – Limerick City Gallery of Art, Cleeve’s Condensed Milk Factory, The Sailor’s Home, The Hunt Museum, King John’s Castle, The Milk Market, Mother Macs – over 30,000 square metres in total.

About Inti Guerrero
Inti Guerrero (b. 1983, Bogotá, Colombia) is currently the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at Tate in London. From 2011–2014 he was the Associate Artistic Director and Curator at TEOR/éTica, an independent not-for-profit art space founded in 1999 in San José, Costa Rica by Virginia Pérez-Ratton, Curator of EVA 2003. Guerrero has curated exhibitions at Tate Modern (London), Para Site (Hong Kong), the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo-MAMSP (São Paulo), MARCO (Vigo), FRAC-Lorraine (Metz), Minsheng Musuem (Shanghai), Kadist (San Francisco), Carrillo Gil Art Museum (Mexico City), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Torino), Museum of Art of Rio-MAR (Rio de Janeiro), CA2M (Madrid), amongst other institutions in Latin America, Europe and Asia. His texts have been published in Afterall (London), Art Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Ramona (Buenos Aires), Manifesta Journal (Amsterdam), The Exhibitionist (Berlin), and ArtNexus (Bogotá). He is currently Curator of Neptune, a year-long curatorial project in Hong Kong, and Co-Curator of Aún:Yet, Still—the 44th Salón Nacional de Artistas (Pereira, Colombia). He lives and works primarily from Hong Kong.
 
About EVA International
EVA International is Ireland’s biennial of contemporary art. Every two years EVA International works with guest curators to create a 12-week programme of exhibitions and events that engages with the people and city of Limerick. Since being founded in 1977 EVA International has worked with 41 curators and 2,098 artists from around the world, bringing innovative exhibitions to audiences in the west of Ireland. EVA International has previously been curated by: Koyo Kouoh (2016), Bassam El Baroni (2014), Annie Fletcher (2012), Elizabeth Hatz (2010), Angelika Nollert & Yilmaz Dziewior (2009), Hou Hanru (2008), Klaus Ottmann (2007), Katerina Gregos (2006), Dan Cameron (2005), Zdenka Badovinac (2004), Virginia Pérez-Ratton (2003), Apinan Poshyananda (2002), Salah M. Hassan (2001), Rosa Martínez (2000), Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn (1999), Paul M. O’Reilly (1998), Guy Tortosa (1996), María de Corral (1995), Jan Hoet (1994), Gloria Moure (1993), Lars Nittve (1992), Germano Celant (1991), Saskia Bos (1990), Florent Bex and Alexander Roshin (1988), Ida Panicelli (1987), Nabuo Nakamura (1986), Rudi Fuchs (1985), Peter Fuller (1984), Liesbeth Brandt Corstius (1982), Pierre Restany (1981), Brian O’Doherty (1980), Sandy Nairne (1979), Adrian Hall, Charles Harper, Theo Mcnab, Cóilín Murray (1978), Barrie Cooke, John Kelly, and Brian King (1977).
 
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