Natalia Valencia (1984, Bogotá) in acurator and researcher based in Mexico City. She has collaborated with institutions such as Museo de Arte Moderno MAMM in Medellín, L’appartement 22 in Rabat, CAPC Museum in Bordeaux, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Museo Quinta de Bolívar in Bogotá, Proyectos Ultravioleta in Guatemala. She is a former editor of Terremoto Magazine in Mexico and she worked as fellow researcher of Latin American art at Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2013.
Curatorial Projects
2018
RABATOKYO, A.I.T. (Art Initiative Tokyo) and L’appartement 22.
2017
MAMM Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellín, Colombia
Curator of the group exhibition “Los Multinaturalistas”, with Pierre Huyghe, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel, Milena Bonilla & Luisa Ungar, François Bucher, Etienne Chambaud, Council, Matthieu Kleyebe- Abbonenc, Rometti Costales, Pedro Gómez-Egaña, 4Direcciones.
2016
Rupert, Vilnius, Lithuania. Curator of the exhibition “The Rabbit Looks to the Left”, by Milena Bonilla & Luisa Ungar.
Terremoto Magazine, Mexico City. Editor of the magazine (2015-2016).
CAPC, Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France. Research residence around the collection of the CAPC.
L’appartement 22, Rabat, Morrocco. Curator of “Serpientes” a solo exhibition by Aurora Pellizzi.
2015 Instituto de Visión, Bogotá, Colombia. Organizer of “In My Previous Life I Wanted To Be A Tablet” by Raimundas Malašauskas.
2013
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. Curator of the exhibition “A water staircase” with Manon de Boer, Mario García Torres, Michael Portnoy, Herz Frank, France Fiction, Felipe Arturo, Matthias Mueller & Christophe Girardet.
Musée National d ́Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Research fellow. Exhibiton of the modern collection: “Modernités Plurielles 1905-1970”
L’ appartement 22, Rabat, Morrocco. Curator of the exhibition “Azul equivocation” by Julia Rometti & Víctor Costales.
2012
Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, México DF, México. Curator of the exhibition “Crying for the March of Humanity” by Christian Jankowski.
Black Cubicle, México DF, México. Curator of the exhibition: “Darkness moves” by José León Cerrillo.
Jan Mot, México DF, México. Assistant to the director in the Mexico City space.
Kaleidoscope Magazine, Milan, Italy. Contributing writer and member of the editorial board of the online platform.
2011
Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. Co-organizer of the seminar series: “Unlearning the future”, with Milena Bonilla and Luisa Ungar. Guest speakers: Inti Guerrero, Juan Gaitan, Brigitte LG Baptiste, Juan Mejia.
Galerie Mor Charpentier, Paris, France. Curator of the exhibition: “Customary beauty”, with Alexánder Apóstol, Terence Gower, José Dávila, Laura
Gannon, Mateo López, Milena Bonilla.
Quinta de Bolivar Museum, Bogotá, Colombia. Curator of the exhibition: “A series of possible memories”. With Alberto Baraya, Icaro Zorbar, Felipe Arturo, Liliana Vélez, Carolina Sanín & Manuel Kalmanovitz.
2010
Galerie Mor Charpentier, Paris, France. Curator of the exhibition: “Tentative d’ expansion d’un lieu parisien” (cinq exercices de dessin)”, with Charwei Tsai, Ignacio Uriarte, Cadu Costa, Nicolás París.
Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Curator of the exhibition: “UltraMarica”, with Adriana García Galán, Elkin Calderón, Nicolás Consuegra, Humberto Junca, El Vicio Producciones, Carlos Bonil.
Publications
Serpientes, Aurora Pellizzi. Editions Hors’champs, Paris and L’appartement 22, Rabat, 2016.
Superconversations, commissioned by e-fux and The New Centre for Research & Practice, 2015.
Incomplete Glossary of Latin America, edited by Jens Hoffmann & Pablo León de la Barra, MOCAD Detroit, 2015
Number Eleven, Cyprien Gaillard, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, 2015.
Sur Vol. II, BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE, Berlin, 2015
Die Kurt Gödel Bibliothek, Emilio Chapela. CONACULTA, Fundación Jumex
México and Kunst und Kultur am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, 2014
Palais Magazine # 18, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2013
Intense Proximity. Le journal de La Triennale # 3, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2012
Contributing writer for art magazines: Kaleidoscope (IT), Terremoto (MX), Animal, (MX), Crash (FR).
Workshops, lectures, events.
INCOMPLT, conversation with Etienne Chambaud, FLORA ars natura, Bogotá, 2017
Terremoto presentation with Dorothée Dupuis. Americas Society, New York, 2016.
Terremoto presentation with Dorothée Dupuis. Museo Jumex, Mexico City, 2015.
Curator’s vision. With Marina Fokidis, Tobi Maier, Amirali Ghasemi, David Elliot, Tati Kivinen. Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Vienna, 2014
Curatorial practices: history and mutations. With Jens Hoffmann and Vinicius Spricigo. Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2013
Residencies
A.I.T. Art Initiative Tokyo, Japan.
Curator in residence, Tabacalera Estancias, Madrid, 2017.
Rupert, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2013
BAR Project, Barcelona, Spain, 2013
ICI Independent Curators International, New York, US. Curatorial program, 2012 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea. Curatorial program, 2012
Awards
Nominated for ICI Curatorial Vision Award, New York, 2014 Ministry of Culture of France, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2013 Prince Claus Foundation, The Netherlands, 2012
Ministry of Culture, Bogotá, 2012
Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá, 2012.
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, 2011
J.A De Seve Entrance Award, Concordia University, Montreal, 2007