Follow-up Orientation trip 2023

Ilaria Conti

Function: Executive Director and Chief Curator of La Nueva Fábrica, Antigua in Guatemala Country: United States Visiting period: 08 - 12 April Visiting year: 2024 Part of Follow-up Orientation trip 2023

La Nueva Fábrica is a non-profit exhibition and residency space committed to empowering communities through contemporary art.

Ilaria’s curatorial work focuses on research-based artistic practices engaging with decoloniality and epistemic justice. Her practice is concerned with institutional infrastructures, communal care, curatorial ethics, labor, and civic agency. Previously, she served as Curator at the American Federation of Arts, Research Curator at the Centre Pompidou, Assistant Curator of the 2016 Marrakech Biennale, and Samuel H. Kress Interpretive Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other positions. Her curatorial work has been featured in projects presented at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Swiss Institute, Rome; Fondation H, Paris; among other institutions.