María Berríos

As a sociologist, editor and curator, María Berríos’ work focuses on contemporary art and culture in Latin America, with a special interest in collective cultural experiments and Third World movements during the 1960s and 1970s. She is cofounder of the editorial collective vaticanochico and has been invited as a guest lecturer to many academic, cultural and independently managed institutions in Europe and Latin America. Her most notable curatorships include Desvíos de la deriva at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2010) with Lisette Lagnado, El cuerpo del arquitecto no es el de un solo hombre at MAVI (2017) with Amalia Cross, the 11th Berlin Biennale (2020-21) alongside Renata Cervetto, Agustín Pérez Rubio and Lisette Lagnado, and En la selva hay mucho por hacer, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (2022-2023). Berríos currently serves as director of Curatorial Programmes and Research at MACBA.