BERNARDO MOSQUEIRA
Bernardo Mosqueira (Rio de Janeiro, 1988) is a
curator and writer based between New York-based
and Rio de Janeiro. Master in Curatorial Studies
from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
(CCS Bard), Mosqueira is the founder and artistic
director of Solar dos Abacaxis (since 2015), is the
ISLAA Curatorial Fellow at the New Museum of
Contemporary Art (since 2021), and is the director
of the FOCUS ArtRio (since 2012). Between 2011
and 2014, Mosqueira organized the performance
festival Vênus Terra, and between 2011 and 201
he was one of the curators of the Ibeu Art Gallery.
In 2017, he was awarded the Lorenzo Bonaldi Prize,
an international award for young curators. In 2020,
he was one of the co-founders of Fundo
Colaborativo, the first emergency fund for artists
and art workers in Brazil. His recent exhibitions
include "Eros Rising: Visions of the Erotic in Latin
American Art", Institute for Studies on Latin
American Art, New York, 2022; “Screens Series:
Naomi Rincón Gallardo”, New Museum, New York,
2022; “Daniel Lie: Unnamed Entities”, New Museum,
New York, 2022; “Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro:
Eclipse”, Hessel Museum, New York, 2021; “Miriam
Inez da Silva”, National Museum of the Republic,
Brasília, 2021; “To Inhabit Freedoms”, with Keyna
Eleison, Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro, 2019;
“Enchanted Bodies / Fetish for Freedom” Galleria
d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo,
2018; “what comes with the dawn”, Casa Triângulo,
São Paulo, 2016; “objects in mirror are closer than
they appear”, Rossiya Theater, Moscow, 2015;
and “Encruzilhada”, EAV Parque Lage, Rio de
Janeiro, 2015.
LUIZA TEIXEIRA DE FREITAS
Luiza Teixeira de Freitas is an independent curator
who lives and works in Lisbon. Amongst the various
projects with which she is involved, her work as a
curator with private collections, independent
exhibitions and art fairs, stands out. Luiza is actively
involved in independent publishing and artist books,
having launched her own publishing house Taffimai
in 2018. Although she lives in Portugal, she
frequently works with projects in São Paulo, New
York, London, Los Angeles and maintains a strong
connection to the Middle East.
Recent exhibitions include: ‘Pitching itself a tent
where all may enter’ (Part 02) and ‘A rooster alone
does not weave the dawn’ (Part 01) (Quetzal Art
Center, Vidigueira, 2021); ‘Shell Game’ - Andreia
Santana and Anna-Sophie Berger (Galeria Filomena
Soares, Lisbon, 2021); ‘Volta Grande’ Alexandre
Estrela (PIVÔ, São Paulo, 2019); ‘Tandem’ - a
one-year project with five exhibitions (Alexander
and Bonin, New York, 2019); ‘There will never be a
door. You're Inside.’ Works from the Teixeira de
Freitas Collection, (Santander Foundation, Madrid,
2019), ‘A Shimmer of Possibilities’ (Eugénio de
Almeida Foundation, Évora, 2017), LA Projects (Los
Angeles, 2017), ‘The Hollow and the Amendment’
Paloma Bosquê (White Pavilion , City Museum,
Lisbon, 2017); ‘At Arm's Length’ Amalia Pica (NC
Arte, Bogotá, 2017); ‘What I Am’ (MAAT, Lisbon,
2017); ‘El que camina al Lado’ (Travesia Cuatro,
Madrid, 2016 and Guadalajara, 2016); ‘An Infinite
Conversation’ (Museu Berardo, Lisbon, 2014);
‘Apestraction’ - Damián Ortega (Freud Museum,
London, 2013);
She was part of the curatorial team for Anozero
Bienal in Coimbra ‘Curar e Reparar’ (2017); assistant
curator of the Marrakech Biennial, ‘Works and
Places’ (2009) and collaborated with Tate Modern,
in London, on the exhibitions of Cildo Meireles and
Cy Twombly (2008).
Luiza is strategy consultant for the Delfina
Foundation, in London, she is part of the Board of
Diretors for Bidoun; and also President and member
of the Board of ‘Operação Nariz Vermelho’ in
Portugal. She recently completed a postgraduate
degree in Pediatric Palliative Care, an area to which
she currently dedicates part of her time.
