Colombian art at the 24th Sydney Biennale

Colombian art curator debuted at the 24th Sydney Biennale, Australia

On this occasion, this outstanding event has the artistic co-direction of curators Inti Guerrero, from Colombia, and Cosmin Costinaș, from Romania.

In the 24th edition of the Sydney Biennale in Australia, titled Ten Thousand Suns and considered the largest international contemporary art event in the Indo-Pacific region that will close on June 10, 116 artists and groups participate from 45 countries and territories.

Participating countries, whose artists were selected for sharing practices rooted in diverse communities and artistic vocabularies, include: Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Maldives, Mexico, Nigeria, Singapore, Tahiti and Ukraine.

On this occasion, this outstanding event has the artistic co-direction of curators Inti Guerrero, from Colombia, and Cosmin Costinaș, from Romania.

It should be noted that Guerrero has held exhibitions in Asia, Latin America, West Africa, Europe, the United States and now Oceania.

Previously, he has been distinguished as Estrellita B. Brodsky Associate Curator of Latin American Art at the Tate in London (2016-2020) and artistic director of Bellas Artes Projects in Manila (2018-2021).

He graduated from the University of Los Andes and studied at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, a country where he has curated exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo and the MAR-Museo de Arte do Rio.

In Colombia, Guerrero was part of the curatorial team 44th National Salon of Artists (2016) and currently lives in Berlin.

About the 24th Sydney Biennale, which takes place within several prestigious institutions in the Australian city such as the Australian Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, UNSW Galleries and the iconic Sydney Opera House, among others, artistic directors Costinaș and Guerrero stated the following:

“Ten Thousand Suns is based on the recognition of a multiplicity of perspectives, cosmologies and forms of life that have always interwoven the world under the sun. A multiplicity of suns conveys ambiguous images. It evokes a fiery world, both in various cosmological visions and in our moment of climate emergency. But it also transmits the joy of affirmed cultural multiplicities, of the conceptions of the cosmos of native peoples placed in the foreground, and of carnivals as forms of resistance in contexts that have overcome colonial oppression. The 24th Biennial works with these different layers of meaning, recognizing the profound ecological crises arising from colonial and capitalist exploitation, but at the same time refusing to give in to an apocalyptic vision of the future. The Biennial proposes, instead, solar and radiant forms of resistance that affirm the collective possibilities around a future that is not only possible, but necessary to live in joy and plenitude.

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