Biographies oh the commissioner, curators, and the artistis

Voces indígenas
Pavilion of Latin America-IILA (Italo-Latin American Institute)
at the 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia

BIOGRAPHIES OF THE COMMISSIONER, CURATORS AND THE ARTISTIS

Sylvia Irrazábal
Commissioner
Cultural Secretary of IILA since 2011, Lawyer and Doctor in Law and Social Sciences at the R.O.U University of Uruguay, Master of “Alti Studi Europei” at the Alcide De Gasperi Institute in Rome, she was born in Montevideo and she fulfilled several offices in her country and abroad in the field of legal and political science and cultural management.

From 1997 to 2011 she’s been Cultural Attaché at the Uruguayan Embassy in Italy and she organized and managed many cultural events, among others: Uruguay Pavilion at the International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia from 2003 to 2011 and at the International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia from 2006 to 2010. In 2013 she was the Commissioner of the Pavilion of Latin American – IILA at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia. She authored several articles and researches about political, economic and socio-cultural integration.

Alfons Hug
Curator
He was Curator of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures) in Berlin between 1994 and 1998; Chief Curator of the São Paulo Biennial in 2002 and 2004; Curator of the Brazilian Pavilion at the International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia in 2003 and 2005; Chief Curator of the Biennial of the End of the World in Ushuaia, Argentina in 2009; chief curator the 6th Curitiba Bienal; and Curator of the IILA-Latin American Pavilion at the 54th and 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia (2011 and 2013), among other curatorial projects. He was director of the Goethe-Institut in Lagos (Nigeria), Medellin (Colombia), Caracas (Venezuela), Moscow (Russia) and Brasília (Brazil). Since 2002 he has been director of the Goethe-Institut in Rio de Janeiro. Hug also curated the Montevideo Biennial in 2012 and 2104.

Alberto Saraiva
Deputy curator
Is curator at the media arts center Oi Futuro in Rio de Janeiro. Saraiva was co-curator of the Bienal del Fin del Mundo in Ushuaia (2009), co-curator in the Curitiba Biennial (2011) as well as curator of the artwork of the artist Neville D’Almeida (Brazil) within the IILA – Latin American Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia (2011).

BIOGRAPHIES OF THE ARTISTS:

Mrs. Sofia Medici
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1974
Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina
www.sofiamedici.com

Mrs. Laura Kalauz
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, nel 1975
Lives and works between Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Zurich, Switzerland
www.laurakalauz.net

Mrs. Sonia Falcone
Born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Plurinational State of Bolivia, in 1965
Lives and works in Mexico
www.soniafalcone.com

Mr. José L. Yapita
Born in La Paz, Plurinational State of Bolivia, in 1968
Lives and works in the Plurinational State of Bolivia
www.illa-a.org/wp/illa

Mrs. Adriana Barreto
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, in 1949
Lives and works between Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, and Lisbon, Portugal
www.adrianabarreto.com

Mr. Paulo Nazareth
Born in Governador Valadares, Brazil, in 1977
Lives and works in Minas Gerais, Brazil
www.mendeswood.com/artists/8/bio

Mr. Rainer Krause
Born in Hoyerhagen, Germany, in 1957
Lives and works in Chile
http://www.artistasplasticoschilenos.cl/biografia.aspx?itmid=1260

Mr. León David Cobo
Born in Buga, Colombia, in 1973
Lives and works in Colombia

Mrs. María Cristina Rincón
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1964
Lives and works in Colombia

Mrs. Claudia Rodríguez
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1961
Lives and works in Colombia

Mrs. Priscilla Monge
Born in San José, Costa Rica, in 1968
Lives and works in San José, Costa Rica
www.artealdia.com/International/Contents/Artists/Priscilla_Monge

Mr. Fabiano Kueva
Born in Quito, Ecuador, in 1972
Lives and works in Quito, Ecuador
http://www.pangaea-mq.com/deutsch/k%C3%BCnstler/fabiano-kueva/

Mr. Mauricio Kabistan
Born in Nicaragua in 1980
Lives and works in San Salvador, El Salvador
www.mauriciokabistan.com

Mrs. Barbara Prézeau Stephenson
Born in Haiti in 1965
Lives and works between France and Haiti
www.prezeau.com

Mr. Leonardo González
Born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in 1982
Lives and works in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
http://galeriaorigenes.com/Leonardo_Gonzales.pdf

Mrs. Sandra Monterroso
Born in Guatemala, in 1974
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria
www.sandramonterroso.com

Mr. Raúl Quintanilla
Born in Managua, Nicaragua, in 1954
Lives and works in Managua, Nicaragua
www.madc.cr/programas/artistas/artistas-de-nicaragua/241-raul-quintanilla.html

Mr. Humberto Vélez
Born in Panama City, Panama, in 1965
Lives and works between London, United Kingdom, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil www.humbertovelez.com

Mr. Javier López
Born in Havana, Cuba, in 1968
Lives and works in Asunción, Paraguay
http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/bien/curitiba_biennial/2011/tour/museu_da_gravura/14_javier_lopez_erika_meza

Mrs. Erika Meza
Born in San Pedro, Paraguay, in 1968
Lives and works in Asunción, Paraguay
http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/bien/curitiba_biennial/2011/tour/museu_da_gravura/14_javier_lopez_erika_meza

Mr. José Huamán Turpo
Born in Paucartambo, Peru, in 1959
Lives and works in Cusco, Peru
http://fielalcine.blogspot.com.br/2013/09/cineastas-regionales-del-peru-parte-33.html

Mr. Gustavo Tabares
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1968
Lives and works in Montevideo, Uruguay
www.facebook.com/tabaresbritos

Mrs. Ellen Slegers
Born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1972
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil
www.ellenslegers.com