EXPO CHICAGO announced today the program curators for the 10th anniversary edition (April 13-16, 2023) returning to the Navy Pier Festival Hall. Featuring large-scale sculptures, videos, films and site-specific works throughout the Festival Hall, the 2023 IN/SITU program will be curated by Claudia Segura, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA ). Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Director and Chief Curator of Visual Arts at the Americans Society in New York has been selected to curate the 2023 EXPOSURE section, which highlights solo and two-artist presentations from galleries 10 years and older. Lukin will curate a presentation focused on announcing emerging artists and exhibition programs, with advice from the Selection Committee and exhibition directors.
“As a collector of international modern and contemporary art for the region and beyond, EXPO CHICAGO envisions rigorous programming that supports diverse curatorial perspectives in all aspects of the exhibition,” said Kate Sierzputowski, Director of Programming at EXPO CHICAGO. “The appointments of Claudia and Aimé as program curators for our 10th anniversary edition will continue this legacy, bringing global presentations to the IN/SITU and EXPOSURE programs through the unique lens of two distinguished curators.”
In her role at Americans Society, Lukin guides the institution and exhibitions through her expertise in themes of travel, exile, and identity in Latin American art. Prior to serving in her current role at the Americans Society, New York, Lukin held positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Institute for Studies in Latin American Art, and Fundación PROA in Buenos Aires. She recently completed her Ph.D. in art history at Rutgers University with a dissertation titled, “This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York 1965-1975,” which maps the international networks through which migrant artists from across the hemisphere created communities in the metropolis .
“I look forward to joining EXPO CHICAGO to showcase emerging artists and galleries from around the world in the cosmopolitan and diverse environment of a city like Chicago, contributing to the creation of a space of exchange that enriches our cultural and intellectual experiences of the arts ,” he said. Luke. “I hope that my knowledge in the field of Latin American and Latinx art in particular can provide greater visibility to other diversities and communities, to mutually learn in dialogue.”
Lukin follows 2022 EXPOSURE curator Humberto Moro, currently Deputy Program Director at the Dia Art Foundation in New York and previously Deputy Director and Senior Curator at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City.
At MACBA, Segura directs the exhibition program and collection of a leading contemporary art institution, focusing on global creative practices with an emphasis on local production. In addition to her role at MACBA, Segura is part of various research platforms such as De vuelta y vuelta and Para abrir boca. She has curated and co-curated projects including Being Known as Infinite: María José Arjona, MAMBO, Bogotá (2018); Here the border is you, ProyectosLA, Los Angeles (2017); Límites Nómadas, Biennial of Mexican Borders (2015); Fifty (Pipilotti Rist) from the Han Nefkens H+F Collection, Collectorspace, Istanbul (2014); Copy/Paste – Recodification of Gesture, Instituto Cervantes, London; Like Tears in the Rain, Palati i Arteve, Porto; and Producing Urban Order, Goldsmiths University, London (2008). She also served as Editorial Coordinator of Florae 2015, the journal of Flora ars + natura, Bogotá, and continues to write regularly for various specialized art platforms.
“As curator of the upcoming IN/SITU program at EXPO CHICAGO, I will work with contemporary artists from around the world to activate the architecture of Navy Pier through installation, in a presentation that aims to hybridize pedagogical methodologies by highlighting performative meanings and collective productions.” Segura said. “The vibration of Chicago has always been of great curatorial interest to me, and through this framework I seek to bring a decolonial perspective to this position and integrate other modes of curation using the potential of poetics and the political device of fiction.”
Segura follows curator 2022 IN / SITU Marcella Beccaria, Chief Curator and Curator of Collections at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Rivoli-Turin, Italy.
Aimé Iglesias Lukin is the Director and Chief Curator of Visual Arts at the Americans Society in New York. Born in Buenos Aires, she received her Ph.D. in art history from Rutgers University with a dissertation titled “This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York 1965-1975,” which he presented as a two-part exhibition and book at the Americans Society in 2021 and 2022. She completed her MA at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and her undergraduate studies in art history at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Her research received grants from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Terra and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, and the ICAA Peter C. Marzio Award from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She has independently curated exhibitions in museums and cultural centers and previously worked at the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Institute for Latin American Art Studies and Fundación PROA in Buenos Aires.
Claudia Segura is curator of exhibitions and collections of the MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. She previously held positions as Director and Chief Curator of NC-arte in Bogota, Colombia (2015-2019), where she curated several site-specific exhibitions and projects by various artists (Amalia Pica, Luis Camnitzer, Xavier Le Roy , Nicolás Paris , Nicolás Consuegra, Los Carpinteros, Alia Farid, among others). She was coordinator of cultural initiatives at Fundació “la Caixa”, Barcelona (2010-2012); external curator of the Mardin Biennale, Turkey (2014-2015); and mentor of Sala d’Art Jove, Barcelona (2014) and at the Cano Laboratory at the Museum of Art of the National University of Colombia (2018). In addition, she has been a visiting lecturer at the National University of the Andes, Bogotá (2017).
