The Sydney Biennial will have a duo of curators directing the 2024 edition. Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero praised previous iterations of the Australian exhibition for their ‘commitment to community and the current socio-political climate’ and said that the aim will be to ‘create a space that examines the past and present through multiple art languages, from places of struggle and resistance to collective joy.’
Having been director of Hong Kong’s Para Site for eleven years, Romanian-born Costinaș left the art centre this year to curate his home country’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale, as well as overseeing the Kathmandu Triennale 2022 as executive curator. This year he also acts as advisor to the Aichi Triennale.
Guerrero also recently worked in Asia, directing the bap – bellas artes projects, Manila, for four years. Previous to that he curated the biennial EVA International in Limerick in 2018, and he was an adjunct curator for Latin American art at Tate in London from 2016 to 2020. From 2011 to 2014 the Colombian-born curator was artistic director of TEOR/éTica in San Jose, Costa Rica.
The pair, who are a couple and based in Berlin, have also worked together previously. Their show A Journal of the Plague Year travelled venues in Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul and San Francisco from 2013 to 2015 and three years later they curated an exhibition as part of the Dakar Biennale together.
Guerrero will be the second Colombian in a row to take the reins of the biennial: the 2022 edition was curated by José Roca.
