Paulo Herkenhoff is an independent curator and critic. From
2003–2006, he was director of the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes,
Rio de Janeiro. Previously Herkenhoff was adjunct curator in the
Department of Painting and Sculpture at the New York Museum of
Modern Art, and chief curator of Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de
Janeiro. He was also artistic director of the 24th São Paulo
Biennale and curated the Brazilian Pavilion at the 47th Venice
Biennale. Herkenhoff has published texts on artists such as Raul
Mourão, Guillermo Kuitca, Rebecca Horn, Julião Sarmento, and Louise
Bourgeois. He lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.
Born in Las Palmas, Spain, Miguel Rio Branco is a Brazilian and
French photographer, painter, filmmaker, and multimedia artist
based in Araras, Rio de Janeiro. His work is featured in leading
museum collections around the world including the MoMA, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Centre Pompidou, and has been
exhibited at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice; the Biennial of
São Paulo; and Aperture Foundation in New York, among others. Rio
Branco’s awards and prizes include the Prix du Livre Photo at the
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, the Prix
Kodak de la Critique Photographique, as well as the International
Critics’ Award at the 1982 Lille Documentary Festival.
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