Participants Visiting Curators Vienna 2024
Giulia Colletti (Italy) is a curator and art historian fostering new media rituals and digital ecologies.
She serves as Curator of Programs and Digital at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. She is Co-curator of the 5th Industrial Art Biennial, supported by the 13th Italian Council.
Her recent curated group and solo exhibitions include Allegory of Public Happiness, 2024, Galleria Civica – Mart Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto; Dominique White. The Fugitive of the State(less), 2023, Art City – MAMbo, Bologna; Fragile Soil, Fertile Souls, 2022, United Nations College, Turin.
She lectures in Contemporary Art and Curatorial Practice at Abadir Academy. She was Visiting Lecturer at Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien 2024 and Inaugural Curatorial Fellow 2019 at The Glasgow School of Art.
She delivers New Media Special Projects for CURA. Her essays, reviews, and compiled readers have also been featured in museum catalogues and published by Flash Art, OnCurating, and e-flux, among others.
She is an honoree of Forbes Under 30 Europe 2021 and an alumna of the Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course and the Independent Curators International ICI.
Mira Gakjina (North Macedonia) is a senior curator, art critic, and researcher whose work delves into issues of identity, migration, and social justice. Her curatorial practice is motivated by a commitment to examining the intersection of art, activism, and social change, with a focus on art’s role in fostering critical dialogue and promoting institutional and societal transformation. She served as Commissioner of the North Macedonia Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. Her curatorial projects include the ongoing project and exhibition series “All That We Have in Common” (2017-present), the exhibition “Sa So Si Amenge Jekhethane” curated as part of MANIFESTA 14, an international exhibition “Όλα Όσα Έχουμε Κοινα” at MOMus – Experimental Center for the Arts in Thessaloniki, and the upcoming solo exhibition of Lia and Dan Perjovschi at MoCA Skopje (2024).
Gakjina has lectured at various institutions and international conferences and symposiums, including: International Heritage Research Centre, Piran (2023); Ecole nationale superieure d’arts de Paris Cergy (ENSAPC), Paris (2023); Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (2022); Ujazdowski Castle Centre, Warsaw (2019); Forum for Cooperation in the Field of Art, PR China and CEE Countries, Chengdu (2018); AICA International Congress Taiwan (2018); Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana (2018).She has also contributed to the publications such as “Plasticity of the Planet: On Environmental Challenge for Art and its Institutions”, in Who Cares? Art Institutions and the Environmental Crisis, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; and “On the State of Art Criticism in Europe” (2014), in Brooklyn Rail, among others.
Gakjina served as a President of AICA Macedonia (2014-2018). She was director of the Museum of Contemporary Art – Skopje (2017-2023).
Renata Azevedo Moreira (she/her) is a Brazilian author, researcher, and curator based in Toronto and São Paulo. Queer, feminist, and postcolonial gestures inspire her curatorial practice, which focuses on collaboration and inclusivity by striving to create space for connections between QBIPOC artists in different stages of their careers. In 2021, Renata received a Ph.D in Communication Studies from the Université de Montréal with research focusing on the entanglements between curatorial work and the creation of media artworks. She has worked as an Assistant Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, as well as the Head of Cultural Affairs of Ireland in Canada. Her past exhibitions in Toronto include We, the Self at The Next Contemporary Gallery, and Blurred Boundaries: Queer Visions in Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario; in Montreal, she has co-curated Mi(s)(xed)communications, the main exhibition at the 2018 edition of the feminist media art festival HTMLles, and Femynynytees, at Arts Visuels Émergents Gallery. Renata’s writing (EN, FR, PT) has been published in art magazines such as Border Crossings and esse (2019 – 2024); in the e-book Imagining Futures of Experimental Media (Pleasure Dome, 2023), and in the cultural website Baron Mag, where she had the monthly exhibition review column L’art au rendez-vous (2018-2019).
Trisha Lagaso Goldberg (USA) is an independent curator who lives and works between San Francisco and the Hawaiian island of O‘ahu. Her curatorial practice centers on amplifying the voices of underrepresented and marginalized makers, including indigenous peoples, people of color, and those of queer and trans communities. She brings expertise in Asian and Pacific Islander diasporas to projects that operate at the nexus of art history, contemporary art, and anti-colonial efforts. Born and raised in Hawai‘i and shaped by 20 years in San Francisco, she founded and directed the thirtyninehotel gallery’s artist residency program (Honolulu), and piloted the public art branch of the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Her recent projects include “Lands End” (2021-2022), a major exhibition addressing the ongoing climate crisis, and the acclaimed “Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision” solo artist retrospective (2022) which was presented at the Newark Museum of Art, Asian Art Museum, SF and SF Arts Commission Gallery. She was commissioned by Independent Curators International and the Fine Arts Gallery at San Francisco State University (SFSU) to develop the “Remittance” exhibition (2026), and is currently researching and developing the “Noguchi + Hawai‘i” exhibition for the Honolulu Museum of Art (2027). Lagaso Goldberg also engages in mentorship and teaching. She has lectured at the Rhode Island School of Design and SFSU, and will co-teach a forthcoming course in museum studies at Stanford University.
Verein K is an independent arts and cultural organization from Vienna, founded in 2017. Verein K focuses on projects in the field of contemporary art and culture connecting diverse cultural and social interests: critical approaches to contemporary art, creating curatorial platforms as well as enabling innovative cultural practices including diverse social groups.