The new artistic director of the Ljubljana Graphic Biennale, José Roca, comes from Colombia and deals with the relationship between politics and nature.
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With Silvia Suárez, he wrote the book Transpolitico about Colombian art in the period 1992-2012. PHOTO: Urška Boljkovac/MGLC archive
MGLC revealed the name of the artistic director of the 37th Ljubljana International Graphic Biennale a few days ago. For the Spanish curator, philosopher and art historian Chus Martínez (she succeeded the Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, who was named the most influential person in art by Art Review magazine last year), the Colombian curator José Roca is coming to this position. “I never intended to curate biennials, it happened organically. So far, I have been involved in about ten such projects of various sizes and contexts,” he said. Of particular interest was the Biennale in Sydney in 2022, in which he also included non-human and inanimate creatures. More professional lives We met Roca, who started his work in the public sector and only later moved to the private sector, in Switzerland at the end of…
