Marina Cortés Curator

About me

Curator, writer, cultural producer, project coordinator, and multi-talented artist with extensive experience in cultural activism (they/them). Flexible across different positions including gallery assistant, translator, researcher, public programmer, and customer service. Strongly motivated polyglot professional with a rich multicultural background, ambitious, resilient, task-oriented, creative, proactive, and team-oriented mentality. My experience living in Spain, Brazil, the USA, and the UK has made me a more flexible, open-minded, multicultural, adaptable, creative, curious, and passionate worker I have worked with institutions like the Chicago Architecture Biennial at the Chicago Cultural Center, Links Halls, Expo Chicago, DFBRL8TR Gallery at Zhou B Art Center, Efrain Lopez Gallery (now GAVLAK Gallery) Sullivan Galleries, Somos Art Berlin, etc

Questions Projects Experience Team

Projects

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Curation of the solo show Auto- GibberisH by Diogo Gama at hARTSlane Gallery“What is the meaning of the pleasure for accumulating objects and images that pass us along the way and their concerns? What do we do with the possibility of ignoring, not registering, not archiving? Circulating, passing through reflections, shadows, and objects — What's the point of putting one image next to another? When there is the possibility of isolating them.” Auto - Gibberish is a collection of visual and material information, often fragmented by mundaneness, the multiple connections, pa
Curation of the show Performative Acts of the Everyday at DfbrL8r Gallery, Chicago.Performative Acts of the Everyday (May 16th, DfbrL8r Gallery at Zhou B Art Center, Chicago) takes the form of a digital archival collection with images and videos that redefine or enhance aspects of every day; looking for the absurdity, humor, and the uncanny in the mundanity, appropriating digital language, approaching random quotidian acts from anthropological and geopolitical perspectives creating intergenerational and transnational dialogues. The digital archival takes a physical form as a
Presentation of performance Raw Flesh as part of the presentation WITH by Noa/h Fields
The Rise of Fascism in BrazilA conversation as part of a larger public programming/biennial on the historic foundations of fascism in Brazil from the military dictatorship emerging with today’s Bolsonaro, the strategies to combat and resist fascism and the use of art and squatting that subaltern bodied have been forced to use as means of resistance (survival) Curated and moserated by me, co-organized by Marina Resende and with the participation of artists and researchers Gustavo Bonfiglioli and Ana Giza
The Ele Nao Movement Against the Rise of Fascism in Brazil
Squatting in São Paulo as a major art and political force (in response to the Architectural Biennial) co-curated by meIn conversation with the works by Preta Ferreira and as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial exploring the struggles for housing rights in São Paulo, the event analyzed the history of artistic squatting in São Paulo and the transformation of squats from platforms to fight against gentrification to active cultural, artistic and educational centers for community building, with special emphasis in Ouvidor 63, the largest squat in Latin America. Curated by me and co-coordinated by Cecilia and