Paz Guevara

Paz Guevara is a curator, researcher and author. Since 2015 she works at Haus der Kulturen der Welt – HKW in Berlin, where she collaborates on the long-term project Kanon-Fragen that questions dominant cultural narratives. In this context, she curated Afro-Sonic Mapping. Tracing Aural Histories via Sonic Transmigrations by artist and musician Satch Hoyt (2019) and co-curated Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War (2017-18). Currently, she is the curator of Transition Exhibition that confronts the colonial legacies of the Brücke-Museum collection in Berlin. In 2011 and 2013, she co-curated the Latin American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Guevara has conducted several conversations with cultural practitioners; most recently she published a conversation with Mapuche oralitor Elicura Chihuailaf (NIRIN NGAAY, Biennale of Sydney, 2020). She is also part of the curatorial ensemble at Archive independent publishing house and art space, where she co-curates the project Publishing Practices. Guevara lectures regularly on Exhibition Histories at the MA on Raumstrategien at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule in Berlin.