• Making Identity a More Complex Concept

  • Jan 20 2023
  • Length: 51 mins
  • Podcast

Making Identity a More Complex Concept

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  • Gabriela Salgado is an Argentine-born curator of contemporary art based in London. Hailing from the Royal College of Art, she was formerly the artistic director of Te Tuhi contemporary art space in New Zealand, curator of public programmes at Tate Modern and the founder of Transatlantic Connections – a programme of creative exchanges for African and Latin American artists. In November, 2022, Gabriela curated an exhibition at Hangar entitled CURAR or TO HEAL. In this conversation, she discusses artists’ diverse knowledge systems, the development of decoloniality in curatorial practices globally and her own trajectory as a subaltern curator ‘complicating’ exhibitions.

    Gabriela Salgado is an Argentine-born curator based in London and working internationally. ⁣

    Gabriela has a Curating Contemporary Art Master’s degree from the Royal College of Art, and since 1997 she has curated a large number of exhibitions and has lectured in over twenty countries. She specialized in Latin American art as curator of the Latin American Art Collection at Essex University, UECLAA (1999-2005) and was curator of Public Programmes at Tate Modern (2006-2011). She curated La Otra Bienal in Bogotá, Colombia (2013) and the 2nd Biennale of Thessaloniki, Greece (2009) and acted as jury member for the Prince Claus Awards and Videobrasil Festival. She created ‘Transatlantic Connections’ a programme of exchanges for African and Latin American artists (2011-2016). Between 2017 and 2020 she worked as Artistic Director of Te Tuhi Contemporary Art in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, and in 2022 became director of The Showroom in London. ⁣



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