

Voices of kurimanzutto
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"Voices of Kurimanzutto" provides a platform to hear from those shaping contemporary art today. Tune in for insightful content that reflects the gallery's commitment to artistic exploration and innovation.In this podcast you will find conversations and talks centered around art making, criticism and research, featuring cultural voices from various fields. Each episode focuses on the artist’s experience and includes discussions with fellow artists, curators, and thinkers, exploring the intersections of art, culture, and society.Kurimanzutto operates two exhibition spaces, one in Mexico City and another in New York, and represents over forty artists from different backgrounds. The gallery organizes and supports exhibitions in diverse cultural spaces, in and out of the white cube.Voices of kurimanzutto is the podcast channel of the gallery founded in 1999 in Mexico City by Mónica Manzutto, José Kuri, and Gabriel Orozco.
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Oct 3, 2025 • 48min
Marta Minujín & Pablo León de la Barra
Este episodio es una conversación entre la legendaria Marta Minujín y el curador Pablo León de la Barra sobre la trayectoria de más de sesenta años de artista argentina. La charla se llevó a cabo en el contexto de la primera exposición de Marta Minujín en México: Vivir en arte, presentada en kurimanzutto Ciudad de México en agosto del 2025. Marta Minujín es una de las artistas latinoamericanas más influyentes de los últimos 70 años. Nació en Buenos Aires en 1943 y su influyente carrera comenzó en la década de 1960, convirtiéndola en una de las artistas más célebres de su país natal.Pablo León de la Barra nació en Ciudad de México en 1972 y vive en Río de Janeiro. Obtuvo un doctorado en Historia y Teoría en la Architectural Association de Londres. Desde 2013, ha sido curador para latinoamérica para el Guggenheim Museum en Nueva York.FUTURE DIALOGUESInspirado en el programa intergeneracional de kurimanzutto, definido por una amplia historia de colaboraciones artísticas, FUTURE DIALOGUES se centra en el intercambio de conocimientos e ideas para los artistas y creativos del mañana.Este episodio de FUTURE DIALOGUES es posible gracias al apoyo de Aeroméxico.FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.

Sep 24, 2025 • 59min
Felipe Baeza & Susana Vargas
Este episodio de la segunda temporada presenta la conversación entre Felipe Baeza y Susana Vargas acerca de la identidad, el cuerpo, la migración y lo queer.Esta charla se llevó a cabo en el contexto de Sentir un entonces y un allí, la primera exposición individual de Felipe Baeza en kurimanzutto, Ciudad de México en julio de 2025. Felipe Baeza fusiona collage, pintura, grabado y otras técnicas, para crear obras que exploran las nociones del cuerpo y la migración. Representa figuras en pinturas de densas capas, retratándolas en diferentes estados de transformación y, en ocasiones, abstrayéndolas hasta hacerlas invisibles. Sus figuras son híbridas, “fugitivas” y “rebeldes”, y fusionan lo humano y lo no humano para crear imágenes fantásticas que evocan los reinos del mito, el espíritu y la imaginación. Susana Vargas es escritora, profesora y curadora. Es una académica interdisciplinaria, reconocida internacionalmente por su trabajo artístico y académico en las intersecciones de la criminología alternativa, los estudios visuales y los estudios queer, tanto en América del Norte como en América Latina. Su trabajo ha aparecido en Frieze, I-D, Vice, El País, y CBS Inside Edition, entre otros.FUTURE DIALOGUES está inspirado en el programa intergeneracional de kurimanzutto, definido por una rica historia de colaboraciones artísticas. Esta serie de conversaciones se centra en el intercambio de conocimientos e ideas para los artistas y creativos del mañana.Este episodio de FUTURE DIALOGUES es posible gracias al apoyo de Aeroméxico. FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.

Jun 27, 2025 • 42min
Miguel Calderón & Magalí Arriola
A conversation about Miguel Calderón's career and his role as a seminal figure in Mexico’s independent art scene. Miguel discusses his sources of inspiration, and the neuroses represented in his solo exhibition Neurotics Anonymous at kurimanzutto New York in May 2025.Miguel Calderón often combines a dark sense of humor that is reconfigured into artworks that explore deep social and personal spaces, taking advantage of what is at hand to create films and videos. His multidisciplinary practice focuses on exploring power relations, interpersonal (often family) relationships, and the different groups that conform our society. Magalí Arriola is an independent curator and writer. She was the director of the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City and the KADIST Lead Curator for Latin America. Previously, she was a curator at Museo Jumex and Chief Curator at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, both in Mexico City. In 2019, she curated the Mexican Pavilion for the 58th Venice Biennale. FUTURE DIALOGUES focuses on the exchange of knowledge and ideas for the artists and creatives of tomorrow. This episode is made possible with the support of Aeroméxico and Casa Dragones.FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.

Dec 9, 2024 • 50min
WangShui & Maryam Hoseini
A conversation about artistic processes, painting, technology, and the concepts of friendship and love; topics which they have been discussing over several months.FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.

Aug 21, 2024 • 37min
Marta Minujín & Darsie Alexander
Marta Minujín is a pioneer in transforming passive viewers into active participants through happenings, participatory environments, and mass media art. She made her first informalist paintings in the late 1950s, embracing the international art movement that rejected traditional artistic conventions in favor of abstraction and spontaneity. Minujín’s diverse use of materials, media, and technology are examples of the boundless possibilities she finds in art, a practice always rooted in experimentation.Our guest, Darsie Alexander was the curator of the influential solo exhibition Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte! at the Jewish Museum in 2023, where she is the Senior Deputy Director and Susan and Elihu (ELA-h-U) Rose Chief Curator since 2018. Previously, she also served as Executive Director of the Katonah Museum of Art, Chief Curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; Senior Curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art and Assistant Curator at Museum of Modern Art, New York. FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.

Aug 14, 2024 • 52min
Daniel Guzmán & Mónica de la Torre
A conversation about how their work responds to art, writing and popular culture at large. Our guest, Mónica de la Torre is the author of six books of poetry. Her most recent publication, Repetition Nineteen, centers on experimental translation. She has published several books in Mexico, including Taller de Taquimecanografía, written in conjunction with the eponymous artists' collective she co-founded. She writes about art, and has translated works primarily from Spanish to English. She teaches at Brooklyn College.Daniel Guzmán is a voracious reader and incurable music lover. He digests, absorbs and recombines musical and literary references at his own discretion. His work is marked by an almost autobiographical sincerity. Comics and cartoons, song lyrics, Pre-Hispanic iconography and sensational press clippings –residues of the artist’s daily life in Mexico City and, more recently, in Guadalajara– combine and reconfigure as part of his visual vocabulary. FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.

Aug 7, 2024 • 50min
Roberto Gil de Montes & Joey Terrill
A conversation about the Chicano Art movement and queer communities.Our guest, Joey Terrill is an artist from Los Angeles who uses different types of zine-making, performance and painting to create a body of work that tenderly encompasses his intimate experiences which intersect between the queer, Chicano and artistic communities. Roberto Gil de Montes' work can be described as irreverent and serious, purposeful and inconclusive. His paintings explore the hidden images and forgotten or imagined stories of the exuberant everyday life he sees. As a young artist he became involved in the Chicano Art Movement in and around Los Angeles, developing relationships with artists such as Carlos Almaraz.FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.

Jul 30, 2024 • 48min
Rirkrit Tiravanija & Bárbara Sánchez-Kane
Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, a dynamic fashion designer and artist, boldly challenges Mexican gender norms through her innovative work in performance and sculpture. In this conversation, she discusses her unique blend of fashion and art while reflecting on how her creations evolve with viewer interaction. She shares insights on confronting machismo, the emotional power of her exhibitions, and the playful humor found in everyday objects. Together with Rirkrit Tiravanija, they explore how art transforms spaces and the significance of wearability versus display in contemporary practice.

Jul 23, 2024 • 58min
Carlos Amorales & Joan Jonas
A conversation about how the artists first met, as student and teacher, and other contemporary subjects linked to their work.Our guest, Joan Jonas, is a world-renowned artist from New York whose work encompasses a wide range of media. Her experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s continue to be crucial to the development of many contemporary art genres, from performance and video to conceptual art and theater. Since 1968, her practice has explored ways of seeing, the rhythms of rituals, and the authority of objects and gestures.Carlos Amorales is interested mainly in language and the impossibility or possibility of communicating through means that are unrecognizable or not codified, like sounds, gestures, and symbols. His practice is based on different forms of translation: instruments that become characters, letters that become shapes, and narratives that unfold as non-verbal actions. FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.

Jul 16, 2024 • 55min
Abraham Cruzvillegas & Julie Mehretu
A conversation about identity through abstraction and the exploration of colors and materials and their underlying meanings. Our guest, Julie Mehretu is a world-renowned artist based in New York. Her work is informed by a multitude of sources including politics, literature, and music. Through her abstracted large scale paintings, drawings, and prints, she engages in a dynamic visual articulation of our contemporary experience, social behavior and the psychogeography of space.Abraham Cruzvillegas is an artist who is deeply influenced by his surroundings. Many of his projects are linked by the idea of autoconstrucción: a concept that draws from the ingenious, precarious and collaborative building tactics implemented by the people living in the Colonia Ajusco, his childhood neighborhood in Mexico City.FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.


