EVA International – Ireland's Biennial, Limerick City
April 14–July 8, 2018
EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial is pleased to announce that Inti Guerrero has been appointed as the Curator of the 38th edition of EVA International in 2018.
Woodrow Kernohan, Director/CEO of EVA International commented: "We are delighted that Inti has accepted our invitation to be the Curator of the 38th edition of EVA in 2018 and very much look forward to working with him to develop his program for Ireland’s Biennial and the open call for artists’ proposals that will be launched later this year."
Inti Guerrero commented: "I am deeply honoured to have been invited to be the Curator of the 2018 edition of EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial; a groundbreaking exhibition that has contributed to reimagining internationalisms. I look forward to working with artists and the EVA team to develop the Biennial program for the city, its audiences, and continuing the dialogue with previous appointed curators whom I hold in great regard."
The 37th edition of EVA International in 2016, Still (the) Barbarians, was curated by Koyo Kouoh and featured works by 57 artists (nine from Ireland and 48 from the rest of the world) including 22 new commissions and presentations. Still (the) Barbarians attracted over 100,000 local and international visitors to see 297 artworks at six locations across the city—Limerick City Gallery of Art, Cleeve’s Condensed Milk Factory, The Sailor’s Home, The Hunt Museum, King John’s Castle, The Milk Market, Mother Macs—over 350,000 square feet in total.
Artists’ projects for EVA International are selected through an international open and invited call for proposals. The open call for EVA International 2018 curated by Inti Guerrero will be launched in September 2016. To register your interest and receive updates about the 2018 open call please click here.
About Inti Guerrero
Inti Guerrero (b. 1983, Bogotá, Colombia) is currently the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at Tate in London. From 2011–2014 he was the Associate Artistic Director and Curator at TEOR/éTica, an independent not-for-profit art space founded in 1999 in San José, Costa Rica by Virginia Pérez-Ratton, Curator of EVA 2003. Guerrero has curated exhibitions at Tate Modern (London), Para Site (Hong Kong), the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo-MAMSP (São Paulo), MARCO (Vigo), FRAC-Lorraine (Metz), Minsheng Musuem (Shanghai), Kadist (San Francisco), Carrillo Gil Art Museum (Mexico City), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Torino), Museum of Art of Rio-MAR (Rio de Janeiro), CA2M (Madrid), amongst other institutions in Latin America, Europe and Asia. His texts have been published in Afterall (London), Art Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Ramona (Buenos Aires), Manifesta Journal (Amsterdam), The Exhibitionist (Berlin), and ArtNexus (Bogotá). He is currently Curator of Neptune, a year-long curatorial project in Hong Kong, and Co-Curator of Aún:Yet, Still—the 44th Salón Nacional de Artistas (Pereira, Colombia). He lives and works primarily from Hong Kong.
About EVA International
EVA International is Ireland’s biennial of contemporary art. Every two years EVA International works with guest curators to create a 12-week program of exhibitions and events that engages with the people and city of Limerick. Since being founded in 1977, EVA International has worked with 41 curators and 2,098 artists from around the world, bringing innovative exhibitions to audiences in the west of Ireland. EVA International has previously been curated by: Koyo Kouoh (2016), Bassam El Baroni (2014), Annie Fletcher (2012), Elizabeth Hatz (2010), Angelika Nollert & Yilmaz Dziewior (2009), Hou Hanru (2008), Klaus Ottmann (2007), Katerina Gregos (2006), Dan Cameron (2005), Zdenka Badovinac (2004), Virginia Pérez-Ratton (2003), Apinan Poshyananda (2002), Salah M. Hassan (2001), Rosa Martínez (2000), Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn (1999), Paul M. O’Reilly (1998), Guy Tortosa (1996), María de Corral (1995), Jan Hoet (1994), Gloria Moure (1993), Lars Nittve (1992), Germano Celant (1991), Saskia Bos (1990), Florent Bex and Alexander Roshin (1988), Ida Panicelli (1987), Nabuo Nakamura (1986), Rudi Fuchs (1985), Peter Fuller (1984), Liesbeth Brandt Corstius (1982), Pierre Restany (1981), Brian O’Doherty (1980), Sandy Nairne (1979), Adrian Hall, Charles Harper, Theo Mcnab, Cóilín Murray (1978), Barrie Cooke, John Kelly, and Brian King (1977).
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*(1) Luc Deleu, Construction X, EVA 1994. (2) Dorothy Cross, Pap, EVA 1994. (3) Cai Guo Qiang, Against the Current, EVA 2002. (4) Milton Becerra, Medusa, EVA 2003. (5) Minerva Cuevas, The Story of the Celtic Tiger, EVA 2006. (6) An Te Liu, Cloud, EVA 2009. (7) Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, Destroy Your Home, Build Up a Boat, Save Life!, Mary Evans, Thousands Are Sailing, EVA 2016. (8) Cleeve’s Condensed Milk Factory, EVA 2016 venue. (9) Inti Guerrero, EVA 2018 Curator. Photo: Trevor Yeung.
