Thursday, March 19 at 6:30 p.m.

Via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/97178167293  Meeting ID: 971 7816 7293

Mayra Vineya in conversation with Rosela del Bosque (Museo Jumex), Maya Juracán (La Revuelta), and Manuel Vásquez Ortega (La Escuela)

As part of Mayra Vineya’s residency at La Nueva Fábrica, this conversation brings together curatorial profiles from different geographies and contexts, which, despite their territorial distance, share points of convergence from which the possibilities of curatorial practice are questioned, both within and beyond the institution. The talk is part of the research project It Was Not the Sea, It Was a Stream (No era mar, era riachuelo), and seeks to foreground the various regulatory institutions that seemingly define a path for contemporary curatorial practice, yet are continuously challenged and called into question by professionals who keep reinventing the scope and possibilities of contemporary curating.

Mayra Vineya

A creator, researcher, and curator, Mayra works through non-formal education and dissident pedagogies in dialogue with artistic, curatorial, and research-based processes. Her practice questions traditional formats of cultural production and circulation, exploring the educational and documentary turn in contemporary art.

She is particularly interested in the politics of care, the politics of imagination, and perspectives of childhood and gender as key principles for a critical curatorial practice.

Since 2020, she has co-directed Laboratorio Curatorial Archipiélago. She has co-curated and co-authored various research projects, residencies, and exhibitions supported by institutions such as the Secretaría de Cultura, PECDA Jalisco, CECA Jalisco, Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo, PAC, and Fundación Jumex. She is currently Associate Curator at Espacio Cabeza and Curator at the Museo Raúl Anguiano in Guadalajara.

Rosela del Bosque

Rosela is a curator and researcher based in Zurich, originally from Mexicali, Mexico. Her practice focuses on the specific context of Baja California, engaging art education, curatorial practice, and research-based methodologies. She holds a BA in Art History and Curatorial Studies from the Universidad de las Américas Puebla and completed a Master of Advanced Studies in Curating at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. She has also pursued studies in contemporary art and curatorial practice at Central Saint Martins and the Università degli Studi di Siena.

In 2022, she received the Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo scholarship to study abroad. She has collaborated on curatorial research and education programs with the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museo Jumex, and the Institute of Postnatural Studies.

She has co-curated projects in Mexico and Zurich and currently serves as Associate Curator at Planta Libre Espacio Experimental and as curator and researcher at the Archivo Familiar del Río Colorado.

Maya Juracan

Maya is a curator, writer, and researcher whose practice understands curating as a critical and community-based tool to engage art in dialogue with history, territory, and social dynamics, positioning it as a catalyst for human dignity.

She founded Proyecto 44 and Bienal En Resistencia, a self-managed biennial activating public space in Guatemala to support social resistance movements. She is co-creator of La Revuelta, a feminist curatorial collective in Central America focused on memory, advocacy, and community-building.

She has developed projects at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá and the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo in Costa Rica, and has spoken at MoMA PS1, the University of Michigan, the Denver Art Museum, OCA Norway, and Bergen Assembly.

In 2024, she advised Creative Time’s summit. Her writing appears in Museo del Chopo, Buchaca, Brill’s Handbook Series in Memory Studies, and in collaborations with PHAIDON.

Manuel Vásquez Ortega 

Manuel is an independent curator and researcher. His inquiries and interests are grounded in reflections on non-hegemonic discourses surrounding the visual arts, historical research as a method of contemporary creation, and the positioning of Venezuelan art within current global narratives.

He served as Professor of Art and Architectural History at the University of Los Andes (Mérida, 2019–2022), and since 2021 he has been Research Coordinator at LA ESCUELA___ (laescuela.art). He has curated and organized exhibition projects at institutions such as Sala Mendoza and Sala TAC in Caracas, Venezuela, as well as for galleries including Carmen Araujo Arte, Abra Caracas, and SpazioZero Galería.

His texts and theoretical inquiries have been published on platforms such as Artishock, Terremoto, and Tráfico Visual, as well as in international academic journals. He has been based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from where he carries out his curatorial practice and research projects.

Free event. No reservation required.