Rethinking Conceptualism: Avant-Garde, Activism and Politics in Latin American Art (1960s-1980s)
10.3. – 31.3.2021, 18.00 h (UTC+01, Berlin):
Online Symposium, Exhibition, Workshops:
Between the 1960s and 1980s, several Latin American countries were under military rule. At that time, there was a wave of mass awakening, a surge of social awareness in Latin America calling for more social justice, influenced mainly by the Cuban Revolution (1953-1959), amongst other socialist initiatives. Under these conditions, a number of artists across Latin America turned to art as a tool for demonstration, aiming to foster social change. Artists and critics also looked for ways to describe this artistic production, identifying aspects they considered characteristic of the Latin American subcontinent.
Within this framework, the symposium presents an overview of conceptual art practices in Latin America from the 1960s to the 1980s, showing its characteristics and particularities that set it apart from the mainstream conceptualist art canon in Europe and the U.S. Additionally, the project strives to make visible the links between Latin America and Germany, by showing the work of the protagonists of that period and their ties to Germany, and by presenting an exhibition of works by Latin American artists living in Berlin, who depict their view of Latin America from the diaspora.
Organised by Katerina Valdivia Bruch (Berlin), in collaboration with Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut and Instituto Cervantes Berlin
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, with the support of Embassy of Uruguay, Embassy of Chile
Program:
• 10.3.2021: Theories on Latin American Art: Juan Acha, Marta Traba, Luis Camnitzer
with Joaquín Barriendos, Luis Camnitzer, María Mercedes Herrera Buitrago
• 11.3.2021: Havana Utopia
with Gerardo Mosquera
• 12.3.2021: Conceptualism in Hélio Oiticica and Gloria Gómez-Sánchez
with Lisette Lagnado, Emilio Tarazona
• 17.3.2021: The First Latin American Conference on Non-Objectual Art and Urban Art
with Jorge Lopera
• 18.3.2021: Artists’ Archives and Collectives
with Ana Longoni, Vania Markarian, Fernanda Carvajal
• 19.3.2021: Art, Memory and Violence: Examples from Colombia and Perú
with Óscar Ardila Luna, Víctor Vich
• 24.3.2021: Latin American Women Artists
with Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Claudia Calirman
• 25.3.2021: Tercer Cine e Internacionalismo (debate en español)
Cecilia Lacruz, Olivier Hadouchi, Miguel Errazu, Mariano Mestman
en conversación con Peter B. Schumann
Information and registration: https://rethinkingconceptualism.com/
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REGARDS CNRS (1 de marzo de 2021). Rethinking Conceptualism: Avant-Garde, Activism and Politics in Latin American Art (1960s-1980s). Redial & Ceisal. Recuperado 17 de junio de 2025 de https://doi.org/10.58079/tg2e