Veronica Cordeiro

Veronica Cordeiro is a curator and writer based in Montevideo, Uruguay. She studied Art History at Edinburgh University and has an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London. Founder of surcontexto.org, an independent organisation devoted to research and curating in context within the field of contemporary South and Latin American art and history, her ongoing projects include Plato Crítico, an art criticism platform that takes place monthly in different galleries and museums in Montevideo; Inter/View, an audiovisual project with Dokumental collective that maps thought-processes through interviews with artists, curators, philosophers, writers, etc. Recent curatorships include two survey shows of Brazilian artist and filmmaker, Cao Guimarães (Le monde atmosphère at Galerie Xippas, Paris, 2011 and Inmersión Sensoria, residency followed by exhibition at SUBTE, Montevideo, 2010) and a six-week residency followed by an exhibition of new work by Rosângela Rennó in Montevideo, 2011-2012. Among her current projects are an exhibition of new work by Pablo Uribe (1962) and a retrospective of Ernesto Vila (1937). Recent publications include an interview with Rosângela Rennó for BES Photo 2012 (Lisbon) and an essay on the collective Alonso+craciun for Marcelina (2011, São Paulo). She writes regularly for exhibition catalogues and has published over 60 reviews, studios visits and essays in Art Nexus (Colombia), Arte y Parte (Valencia), trans>arts.cultures.media (NY), Trópico (SP), Marcelina (SP), among others. Cordeiro is the co-curator of the Urugay Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennial.

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