Miguel A. López is the curator in charge of the Live Talks. These approach the state of present-day contemporary art and include the participation of curators, museum directors, artists and collectors from local and international circuits.
Miguel A. López (Lima, 1983)
Miguel is a writer, researcher, and independent curator. Between 2015 and 2020 he worked at TEOR/éTica (Costa Rica), first as chief curator, and since 2018 as co-director. His recent curatorial projects include "Sila Chanto and Belkis Ramírez: Aquí me quedo / Here I Stay", Institute for Contemporary Art, ICA-VCU, Richmond, 2022; "And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?", Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2021; "There is something inedible in the throat. Antipatriarchal poetics and new scene in the nineties", ICPNA, Lima, 2021; "Cecilia Vicuña: Seehearing the Enlightened Failure" at the Witte de With, Rotterdam (2019), MUAC-UNAM, Mexico City (2020), CA2M, Madrid (2021), and Banco de la República, Bogotá (2022). He is the author ofFicciones disidentes en la tierra de la misoginia (Dissident Fictions in the Land of Misogyny) (Pesopluma, 2019) and Robar la historia. Contrarrelatos y prácticas artísticas de oposición (Stealing History. Contrastories and artistic practices of opposition (Metales Pesados, 2017). His texts have been published in magazines such as Afterall, Artforum, E-flux Journal, and ArtNexus, among others. López is co-founder of the independent space Bisagra, active in Peru since 2014. In 2016 he was awarded the Independent Vision Curatorial Award from the ICI, Independent Curators International, New York. He lives and works in Lima.
