Latitudes

Founded in 2005 by Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna, Latitudes is an independent curatorial office based in Barcelona, Spain, that works internationally within the field of contemporary art. Informed by an initial focus on ecology, Latitudes is especially interested in site, process and context.

Exhibitions have formed an important but irregular part of Latitudes’s practice. Other projects have deliberately taken a transdisciplinary approach to visibility and publicness while maintaining a broader bandwidth of working and thinking with art and artists. Latitudes has curated solo exhibitions by artists including Lawrence Weiner (Fundació Suñol, Barcelona, 2008) and Ignasi Aballí (Suitcase Art Projects, Today Art Museum, Beijing, 2009); group shows and exhibition series have addressed risk (Extraordinary Rendition, NoguerasBlanchard, 2007), post-environmentalism (‘Greenwashing’, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2008) and been inspired by overlooked histories (‘Amikejo’, MUSAC, León, 2011). Informed by its public art collaboration with Tue Greenfort (RSA Arts & Ecology, London, 2005–8), Latitudes later developed a year-long series of commissions in the Port of Rotterdam (‘Portscapes’, 2009–10). Likewise, the experience of editing a weekly newspaper in an exhibition (‘The Last Newspaper’, New Museum, New York, 2010) sparked the interview series ‘#OpenCurating’ (2012–13), while aligning with projects that have similarly questioned the site and sequence of research, production and presentation (‘No Soul For Sale’, X Initiative, New York, 2009 and Tate Modern, London, 2010; ‘Incidents of Travel’, Mexico City, 2012, and Hong Kong, 2013). An engagement with curating as convening, alongside formats of discussion and learning, links the Sharjah Biennial 8 Symposium (2007), the art school pilot ‘Campus’ (Espai Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona, 2011) as well as ‘The Dutch Assembly’, (ARCOmadrid, 2012).

In addition, participation in research residencies and fieldwork has also formed a part of Latitudes’s activities (Frankfurt Kunstverein, 2008; Spring, Hong Kong, 2013; Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, 2014; Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, 2015).

Editorial projects have resulted in publications including ‘Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook’ (RSA/Arts Council England, 2006) as well as the monograph ‘Lara Almarcegui: Projects 1995–2010’ (Archive Books, 2011). Recently they have curated ‘Compositions’, a series of five new artists’ commissions on the occasion of the first Barcelona Gallery Weekend (1–4 October 2015).