Catalina Imizcoz
I am an editor and researcher, with a PhD in Exhibition Studies and an editorial-curatorial practice as founder of Pina magazine. Born in Buenos Aires and based in London, my positionality and work deal with the ongoing and complex ontological affects of modernity/coloniality. Through research, writing, public programming, exhibition-making and teaching I challenge the normative binary constructs – object-subject, nature-culture, body-mind, white-black, male-female, etc – of Western capitalist modernity, understanding binaries as symptomatic of our current crises. My practice considers non-normative possibilities and more-than-modern worldviews.
Founder & Editor, Pina magazine
In conversation with Elvia Wilk, ‘Pina as a world-building space in print’, at Head Hi [December 2025]
Artist Talk with Forensic Architecture, ‘A Counter-Archive of the Ovaherero and Nama Genocide’, at FormaHQ and with a live broadcast by Montez Press Radio [November 2025]
Making Kin II: Plants with Bianca Baldi and Anastasia Eggers, booklaunch at rile*books [November 2025]
After 8 Books at Paris Internationale, ‘A conversation between Qalqalah قلقلة and Pina’, with Line Ajan [October 2025]
Making Kin II: Plants with Kai Edwards and Josefina Vidal Miranda, booklaunch at Artwords [October 2025]
Artist Talk with Asad Raza and Will Kinney, ‘NYC launch of Pina issue #1’, at Center for Art, Research, and Alliances [May 2025]
In conversation with Valeria Pecoraro and Cecilia Szalkowicz, ‘Exhibitions in print’, at Azotea [February 2025]
Monocle: The Stack on Pina magazine [February 2025]
Artist Talk with Gala Porras-Kim, ‘Conditions for recognising a living stone’, at Delfina Foundation [November 2024]
‘Pina issue #1: The Possibilities of Exhibition Design’, an artist talk by Asad Raza and a panel talk with Aric Chen and Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, at Nieuwe Instituut [October 2025]
‘The Exhibitionary Form: Tentacular notes on exhibitions, its design, and world-building in the ruins of representation’, PhD, AHRC [September 2024]
‘Activating Ideas and Images: Studio Visit with Pilar Elgueta’, Delfina Foundation [Fall 2024]
‘Architectures of Modernity: Mourning Ourselves inside Aria Dean’s Abattoir’ in Espace Art Actuel, nro. 138 [Fall 2024]
A Book for Dissapearance with Institute of Queer Ecology, booklaunch at Matadero Madrid [June 2024]
Cthulhu Books with Yuri Tuma, at Institute for Postnatural Studies [May 2024]
‘Water and Horoscopes’ in Diversion, an artist newspaper edited by Asad Raza and Mathew Hale, Portikus [June 2022]
‘The Modern Paradigm, the Exhibitionary Form and Our Epistemological Crisis’, Worldviews, The Centre for Visual Culture, University of Cambridge and TrAIN, UAL [November 2021]
‘The Modern Paradigm, the Exhibitionary Form and Our Epistemological Crisis’, PARSE journal On the Question of Exhibition [August 2021]
Vitamin D3: Today's Best in Contemporary Drawing, Phaidon [2021]
MaytoDay, Gwangju Biennale Foundation [2020]
‘The Modern Paradigm and the Exhibitionary Form: The Case of Altermodern’, OnCurating issue 46: Contemporary Art Biennials – Our Hegemonic Machines in Times of Emergency [June 2020]
‘Rest’, e-flux reader, compiled with Camila Charask [2020]
Adrián Villar Rojas, Phaidon [2020]
Collision, Innovation, Interaction: Korean Art from 1953, Phaidon [2020]
‘The Publication as Evocation: Exhibition Histories’ Printed Matter’, Revista de História da Arte no. 14: The Exhibition, Instituto de História da Arte [December 2019]
‘What Do Exhibitions Do?’, ASFA & Hydra 21: Exhibition Histories Seminar, hosted by Asad Raza [September 2019]
‘Precarious Structures: HIV, Museums, and History’, What You Don’t Know About AIDS Could Fill a Museum, OnCurating [August 2019]
Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art, Phaidon [2019]
Art and Queer Culture, Phaidon [2019]
‘Cartographies and a Genealogy of Exhibition Studies in the 1990s’, in Exhibiting (and) Histories, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History [December 2018]
‘ramona: Looping the Mechanisms of Production and Reception’, Grandes públicos y artes visuales de 1950 a nuestros días, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid [November 2018]
‘ramona: A Translation Exercise’, Université d’été de la Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Centre Pompidou, Paris [July 2018]
‘Teach me how to look at what I'm trying to see. On the Temporal Codes of Conduct of Dance Exhibitions’, As Slowly As Possible, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam [May 2018]
‘El Pintor Gordín en el ICI’, Kunstlicht, Amsterdam [2017]
‘The Multiplex Texture of ramona’, Third Text, vol 30 issue 4, London [July 2017]
‘Field Work: Extending the Study of Exhibitions across Geographies’ in Caiana #10, Buenos Aires [March 2017]