Conversations | The Artist and the Gallerist: Jonathas de Andrade
Art Basel in Basel 2022, June 17
This panel offers a frank and informal review of the unique relationship between an artist and their gallerist. Artist Jonathas de Andrade and Verusca Piazzesi will exchange with Chus Martinez about how they came to work together, focusing on some of their transformative shared projects. De Andrade will discuss how the concepts of collaboration, labor, and identity filter through his works, from his exhibitions at the Venice Biennale 2022 and his current exhibition at CRAC Alsace, Altkirch which tours to MAAT, Lisbon.
‣ Jonathas de Andrade, visual artist, Recife, Brazil
‣ Margherita Tinagli, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
‣ Moderator: Chus Martinez, Head of the Art Gender Nature Institute, HGK FHNW
‣ Jonathas de Andrade (b. 1982, Brazil) is an artist who lives and works in Recife. His works have been shown in solo exhibitions at CRAC Alsace touring to MAAT Lisbon; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; New Museum, New York; The Power Plant, Toronto; MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo; MAR - Museu de Arte do Rio; MAC - Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; Kunsthalle Lissabon and Centro Cultural São Paulo, among many others. De Andrade’s works were also presented at the MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, Montreal (2019); Istanbul Biennial (2019); SITE Santa Fe (2016); Bienal de São Paulo (2016); Performa15, New York; La Biennial de Lyon (2013); New Museum Triennial, New York (2011); and Mercosul Biennial (2009), among many others. De Andrade represented Brazil at the Biennale Arte 2022.
‣ Margherita Tinagli is artist liaison at Galleria Continua. Continua was founded in San Gimignano (Italy) in 1990 by three friends: Mario Cristiani, Lorenzo Fiaschi and Maurizio Rigillo. Occupying a former cinema, Continua established itself and thrived in an entirely unexpected location, away from the big cities and the ultramodern urban centres. Galleria Continua is founded on a desire for continuity between ages, aspiring to take part in writing the history of the present day and uniting different and unusual individuals and places. Grounded in two values – generosity and altruism with the shared goal of bringing contemporary art to the most unexpected of places, during 30 years of existence, Galleria Continua has opened 7 permanent locations.
‣ Born in Spain, Chus Martínez has a background in philosophy and art history. Currently she is the Head of the Institute of Art Gender Nature at the Academy of Arts and Design in Basel (FHNW). She is the curator of Ocean Space, a collaborative platform for Ocean Imagination and Ocean Action established and led by TBA21 Academy in Venice, and curator-at-large at ‘The Vuslat Foundation’ in Istanbul.
Before her position in Basel, Martínez was the Chief Curator at El Museo Del Barrio, New York. She was dOCUMENTA (13) Head of Department, and Member of Core Agent Group. Previously she was Chief Curator at MACBA, Barcelona (2008 to 2011), Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein (2005–08) and Artistic Director of Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2002-05). For the 51st Biennale di Venezia (2005), Martínez curated the National Pavilion ofCyprus, and in 2008 served as a Curatorial Advisor for the Carnegie International and in 2010 for
the 29th Bienal de São Paulo.
The Art Basel 2022 Conversations program is curated by Emily Butler.
