short vita

Dr Katerina Valdivia Bruch is an independent curator and researcher based  in Berlin. She holds a PhD from the School of Art of the University of Reading, an MA in Museum Studies and Critical Theory (Independent Study Programme,  MACBA Museum/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), and a Cultural Policies and Management Diploma (Universitat de Barcelona). Katerina has curated exhibitions, organised talks and symposia, and collaborated with several institutions, including Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, ZKM-Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Para/Site Art Space Hong Kong, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), and the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore. In 2008, she was co-curator of the Prague Triennale Re-Reading the Future at the National Gallery in Prague. Besides her work as a curator, she contributes essays and articles to  art publications and magazines. Among her research interests are conceptual art, artists’ collectives, video and media art, performativity in the visual arts, cultural policies, and radical pedagogy. She is the artistic director of the research platform on Latin American art Rethinking Conceptualism: Avant-Garde, Activism and Politics in Latin American Art (1960s-1980s) and the editor of the volume “Repensar el conceptualismo: vanguardia, activismo y política en el arte latinoamericano (1960s-1980s)” (2025).