Gerardo Mosquera is an independent art critic, curator, historian, and writer based in Havana and Madrid. Chief curator of the 4th San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial 2015, he is advisor to several international art centers and journals. He was co-founder of the Havana Biennial, curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and Artistic Director for PHotoSpain, Madrid. He recently curated the exhibitions Lost in Landscape, Mart, Rovereto, and Artificial Amsterdam, de Appel, Amsterdam. Author of numerous texts and books on contemporary art and art theory, his last book has just appeared in Chinese in Beijing. He has lectured extensively around the world. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1990.
Tania Bruguera: Artivism and Repression in Cuba
Adiós Utopia co-curator Gerardo Mosquera provides an eyewitness account of the May 24, 2015 detention of artist Tania Bruguera—subject of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s new documentary Tania Libre (screening at the Walker November 16)—by Cuban police.