Juan A. Gaitán
Berlin's KW Institute for Contemporary Art has announced Juan A. Gaitán as the curator of the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, to be held in the Spring of 2014.
Juan A. Gaitán (Canada/Colombia) is an independent curator and writer, a member of the acquisitions committee at FRAC Calais Nord-Pas in Dunkirk, France. He was educated as an artist and art historian at the University of British Columbia and the Emily Karr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada. Between January of 2009 and December of 2011, Gaitán was a curator at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and between September of 2011 and June of 2012 he was an adjunct professor in the Curatorial Practice Program of the California College of the Arts, in San Francisco.
Between 2006 and 2008, Gaitán was a member of the Management Council of the Western Front Society and worked as an external curator for the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver. His writing has appeared in different publications, including After All, ArtNexus, Arte al Día, Canadian Art. His most recent exhibition, Relevant Information, extends across three sites in Bergen, Norway, and seeks to establish and renew contemporary critical approach to the global distribution of work from the perspective of the arts and handcrafts.
Since its first edition in 1998, the Berlin Biennale has become an important international contemporary art event. The last seven editions have explored a variety of exhibition formats, involving diverse curatorial programs.
