Thursday, August 14, 2025
5 PM

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Explore our current exhibitions and Research Center while learning more about our programming during this after-hours open house at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).

This event will include guided tours of Magali Lara: Stitched to the Body, led by Madeline Murphy Turner, Emily Rauh Pulitzer Curatorial Fellow in Contemporary Drawings at the Harvard Art Museums, and Diana Dowek: Uprising in the Mirror, led by Bernardo Mosqueira, curator of the exhibition and artistic director of Solar dos Abacaxis.

Their walkthroughs will be followed by special open hours for our Research Center; an opportunity to view Spotlights featuring work by Lea Lublin, Lourdes Grobet, and Lotty Rosenfeld; and a reception on our ground floor. Exclusive discounts will be available on select publications in our bookshop.

Both tours will be held in English. Capacity is limited, and attendees are encouraged to register in advance by signing up online at the link above.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Bernardo Mosqueira is a curator, writer, and researcher based in New York. He is the founder and artistic director of Solar dos Abacaxis, in Rio de Janeiro (since 2015) and director of the Prêmio FOCO ArtRio, Rio de Janeiro (since 2012). Between 2023 and 2025, Mosqueira was chief curator at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) in New York. Between 2021 and 2023, he was the ISLAA Curatorial Fellow at the New Museum. Between 2011 and 2014, he organized the performance festival Vênus Terra, and between 2011 and 2015 he was one of the curators of Galeria de Arte Ibeu. In 2020, he co-founded Fundo Colaborativo, the first emergency fund for artists and art workers in Brazil.

Mosqueira's recent exhibitions include Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro: Eterno Vulnerável (co-curated with Matheus Morani, Solar dos Abacaxis, 2025); Diana Dowek: Uprising in the Mirror (co-curated with Olivia Casa, ISLAA, 2025); Luis Fernando Benedit: Invisible Labyrinths (co-curated with Laura Hakel and Olivia Casa, ISLAA, 2024); Korakrit Arunanondchai: but the words make worlds (Solar dos Abacaxis, 2024); The Precious Life of a Liquid Heart (ISLAA, 2023); Wynnie Mynerva: The Original Riot (New Museum, 2023); and Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente (co-curated with Margot Norton, New Museum, 2023). In 2021, he was part of the curatorial team for the fifth New Museum Triennial Soft Water Hard Stone.

Mosqueira holds a master's degree in curatorial studies (CCS Bard, 2021). In 2025, Mosqueira was awarded the Vilcek Foundation Prize in Curatorial Work. In 2017, he received the Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi per l’ Arte, an international award for young curators, organized by GAMeC, in Bergamo, Italy. Also in 2017, he was listed as “One of the 20 most influential curators in Latin America” by Artsy. In 2023, Cultured Magazine highlighted Mosqueira as one of the six “visionary curators” in their annual list of Young Curators. In 2023, he was named by APOLLO Magazine as “one of the 10 most inspirational thinkers living in the US” in their 40 under 40 list. 

Madeline Murphy Turner is a curator and art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art of the Americas, with a focus on gender, ecology, and their intersections with transhistorical politics. She is the Emily Rauh Pulitzer Curatorial Fellow in Contemporary Drawings at the Harvard Art Museums, where she curated Drawn to Earth: Contemporary Art and Environment in the Americas and, with Mitra Abbaspour, is co-curating Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static (opening August 2025).

Turner has held positions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Center for the Arts, and the Grey Art Museum, and her essays appear in exhibition catalogues, scholarly volumes, and leading journals. A committed advocate for arts education, she serves on the board of La Escuela___, an artist-run platform for radical learning and collaborative making in public spaces across the Americas.

Turner is also the co-editor of Momentum: Art and Ecology in Contemporary Latin America (The Museum of Modern Art, 2025), an award-winning anthology exploring how Latin American artists engage with their natural environments. Madeline earned her PhD in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.