Solange O. Farkas - Videobrasil

Photo: Renata D'Almeida

Solange O. Farkas is the general curator of the Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil, event she organizes since its first edition, in 1983. She is the director of Associação Cultural Videobrasil, created by her in 1991, and of Galpão VB, headquarters to the Association since 2015. She was director and chief curator of the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia from 2007 to 2010, and has participated in committees, juries, and curatorships of important prizes, art festivals, and biennials in several countries.

Highlights as curator

Nada levarei quando morrer, aqueles que me devem cobrarei no inferno
Galpão VB, São Paulo, 2017

Tomorrow Everything Will be Alright: Akram Zaatari
Galpão VB, São Paulo, 2016

Isaac Julien: Geopoéticas
Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, 2012

Roteiro amarrado - Eder Santos - Obras de 2001 a 2010
CCBB, Rio de Janeiro, 2010

Joseph Beuys: A revolução somos nós
Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, 2011; Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, 2010

Sophie Calle: Cuide de você
Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo; Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, 2009

Eder Santos: Suspensão e fluidez
ARCO, Madrid, 2008

La Mirada Discreta: Marcel Odenbach & Robert Cohen
Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, 2006

Mostra Pan-Africana de Arte Contemporânea
Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia e Sala Walter da Silveira, Salvador, 2005

Mostra Africana de Arte Contemporânea
Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, 2000

Participation as guest curator

FUSO – Mostra Anual de Videoarte (Portugal, 2011, 2013 and 2017)
112th Biennial of Contemporary African Art in Dakar (Senegal, 2016)
6th Jakarta International Video Festival (Indonesia, 2013)
10th Sharjah Biennial (United Arab Emirates, 2011)
16th Cerveira Biennial (Portugal, 2011)
5th Videozone: International Video Art Biennial (Israel, 2010)

Participation in juries, committees and advisory boards