

Voices of kurimanzutto
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"Voices of Kurimanzutto" provides a platform to hear contemporary art discussions from those shaping art today. Tune in for insightful content that reflects the gallery's commitment to artistic exploration and innovation.In this podcast you will find conversations and talks centered around art making, criticism and research, featuring cultural voices from various fields. Each episode focuses on the artist’s experience and includes discussions with fellow artists, curators, and thinkers, exploring the intersections of art, culture, and society.Kurimanzutto operates two exhibition spaces, one in Mexico City and another in New York, and represents over forty artists from different backgrounds. The gallery organizes and supports exhibitions in diverse cultural spaces, in and out of the white cube.Voices of kurimanzutto is the podcast channel of the gallery founded in 1999 in Mexico City by Mónica Manzutto, José Kuri, and Gabriel Orozco.
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Apr 15, 2026 • 43min
Mariana Castillo Deball & Diana Magaloni
A conversation between the artist Mariana Castillo Deball and Dr. Diana Magaloni, recorded during Castillo Deball’s solo exhibition, Serpent Disappearances, at kurimanzutto New York on March 2026. This project traces the development and construction of her major public artwork Feathered Changes, commissioned for the plaza at the new David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, designed by Peter Zumthor. Mariana Castillo Deball takes a kaleidoscopic approach to her practice, mediating between science, archaeology, and the visual arts and exploring the way in which these disciplines describe the world. Her installations, performances, sculptures, and editorial projects arise from the recombination of different languages that seek to understand the role objects play in our identity and history. Her works result from a long research process, allowing her to study the different ways in which a historical object can be read as it presents a version of reality that informs and blends into a polyphonic panorama. Dr. Diana Magaloni has led a versatile career over the past 35 years as museum leader, art historian, author, curator, and conservator. As Senior Deputy Director for Conservation, Curatorial, and Exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), she leads an innovative mentoring and curatorial program as the Head Curator of the Department of Art of the Ancient Americas and serves as Director of the museum’s Conservation Center. FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.

Mar 21, 2026 • 58min
Oscar Murillo & Magalí Arriola
Una conversación con Oscar Murillo y la curadora y crítica Magalí Arriola, sobre la práctica multifacética y desafiante del artista, que abarca pintura, proyectos colaborativos, video, sonido e instalación. Este evento se llevó a cabo en el contexto de la exposición individual del artista, El pozo de agua, presentada en febrero 2026 en kurimanzutto Ciudad de México. FUTURE DIALOGUES es una serie de conversaciones entre artistas y creativos, organizada por kurimanzutto, con el apoyo de Casa Dragones.FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.

Feb 26, 2026 • 47min
Gabriel Kuri & Dieter Roelstraete
A conversation with Gabriel Kuri and curator Dieter Roelstraete about the recurring concerns that structure Kuri's practice: the systems that order experience, material tensions, the residues of exchange, and the mechanisms of prediction that shape our sense of the future.This talk was recorded in the context of Kuri's solo exhibition your cost-benefit calculations at kurimanzutto New York on January 2026.FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.

Oct 3, 2025 • 48min
Marta Minujín & Pablo León de la Barra
Este episodio es una conversación entre la legendaria Marta Minujín y el curador Pablo León de la Barra sobre la trayectoria de más de sesenta años de artista argentina. La charla se llevó a cabo en el contexto de la primera exposición de Marta Minujín en México: Vivir en arte, presentada en kurimanzutto Ciudad de México en agosto del 2025. Marta Minujín es una de las artistas latinoamericanas más influyentes de los últimos 70 años. Nació en Buenos Aires en 1943 y su influyente carrera comenzó en la década de 1960, convirtiéndola en una de las artistas más célebres de su país natal.Pablo León de la Barra nació en Ciudad de México en 1972 y vive en Río de Janeiro. Obtuvo un doctorado en Historia y Teoría en la Architectural Association de Londres. Desde 2013, ha sido curador para latinoamérica para el Guggenheim Museum en Nueva York.FUTURE DIALOGUESInspirado en el programa intergeneracional de kurimanzutto, definido por una amplia historia de colaboraciones artísticas, FUTURE DIALOGUES se centra en el intercambio de conocimientos e ideas para los artistas y creativos del mañana.Este episodio de FUTURE DIALOGUES es posible gracias al apoyo de Aeroméxico.FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.

Sep 24, 2025 • 59min
Felipe Baeza & Susana Vargas
Este episodio de la segunda temporada presenta la conversación entre Felipe Baeza y Susana Vargas acerca de la identidad, el cuerpo, la migración y lo queer.Esta charla se llevó a cabo en el contexto de Sentir un entonces y un allí, la primera exposición individual de Felipe Baeza en kurimanzutto, Ciudad de México en julio de 2025. Felipe Baeza fusiona collage, pintura, grabado y otras técnicas, para crear obras que exploran las nociones del cuerpo y la migración. Representa figuras en pinturas de densas capas, retratándolas en diferentes estados de transformación y, en ocasiones, abstrayéndolas hasta hacerlas invisibles. Sus figuras son híbridas, “fugitivas” y “rebeldes”, y fusionan lo humano y lo no humano para crear imágenes fantásticas que evocan los reinos del mito, el espíritu y la imaginación. Susana Vargas es escritora, profesora y curadora. Es una académica interdisciplinaria, reconocida internacionalmente por su trabajo artístico y académico en las intersecciones de la criminología alternativa, los estudios visuales y los estudios queer, tanto en América del Norte como en América Latina. Su trabajo ha aparecido en Frieze, I-D, Vice, El País, y CBS Inside Edition, entre otros.FUTURE DIALOGUES está inspirado en el programa intergeneracional de kurimanzutto, definido por una rica historia de colaboraciones artísticas. Esta serie de conversaciones se centra en el intercambio de conocimientos e ideas para los artistas y creativos del mañana.Este episodio de FUTURE DIALOGUES es posible gracias al apoyo de Aeroméxico. FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.

Jun 27, 2025 • 42min
Miguel Calderón & Magalí Arriola
A conversation about Miguel Calderón's career and his role as a seminal figure in Mexico’s independent art scene. Miguel discusses his sources of inspiration, and the neuroses represented in his solo exhibition Neurotics Anonymous at kurimanzutto New York in May 2025.Miguel Calderón often combines a dark sense of humor that is reconfigured into artworks that explore deep social and personal spaces, taking advantage of what is at hand to create films and videos. His multidisciplinary practice focuses on exploring power relations, interpersonal (often family) relationships, and the different groups that conform our society. Magalí Arriola is an independent curator and writer. She was the director of the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City and the KADIST Lead Curator for Latin America. Previously, she was a curator at Museo Jumex and Chief Curator at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, both in Mexico City. In 2019, she curated the Mexican Pavilion for the 58th Venice Biennale. FUTURE DIALOGUES focuses on the exchange of knowledge and ideas for the artists and creatives of tomorrow. This episode is made possible with the support of Aeroméxico and Casa Dragones.FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.

Dec 9, 2024 • 50min
WangShui & Maryam Hoseini
A conversation about artistic processes, painting, technology, and the concepts of friendship and love; topics which they have been discussing over several months.FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.

Aug 21, 2024 • 37min
Marta Minujín & Darsie Alexander
Marta Minujín is a pioneer in transforming passive viewers into active participants through happenings, participatory environments, and mass media art. She made her first informalist paintings in the late 1950s, embracing the international art movement that rejected traditional artistic conventions in favor of abstraction and spontaneity. Minujín’s diverse use of materials, media, and technology are examples of the boundless possibilities she finds in art, a practice always rooted in experimentation.Our guest, Darsie Alexander was the curator of the influential solo exhibition Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte! at the Jewish Museum in 2023, where she is the Senior Deputy Director and Susan and Elihu (ELA-h-U) Rose Chief Curator since 2018. Previously, she also served as Executive Director of the Katonah Museum of Art, Chief Curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; Senior Curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art and Assistant Curator at Museum of Modern Art, New York. FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.

Aug 14, 2024 • 52min
Daniel Guzmán & Mónica de la Torre
A conversation about how their work responds to art, writing and popular culture at large. Our guest, Mónica de la Torre is the author of six books of poetry. Her most recent publication, Repetition Nineteen, centers on experimental translation. She has published several books in Mexico, including Taller de Taquimecanografía, written in conjunction with the eponymous artists' collective she co-founded. She writes about art, and has translated works primarily from Spanish to English. She teaches at Brooklyn College.Daniel Guzmán is a voracious reader and incurable music lover. He digests, absorbs and recombines musical and literary references at his own discretion. His work is marked by an almost autobiographical sincerity. Comics and cartoons, song lyrics, Pre-Hispanic iconography and sensational press clippings –residues of the artist’s daily life in Mexico City and, more recently, in Guadalajara– combine and reconfigure as part of his visual vocabulary. FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.

Aug 7, 2024 • 50min
Roberto Gil de Montes & Joey Terrill
A conversation about the Chicano Art movement and queer communities.Our guest, Joey Terrill is an artist from Los Angeles who uses different types of zine-making, performance and painting to create a body of work that tenderly encompasses his intimate experiences which intersect between the queer, Chicano and artistic communities. Roberto Gil de Montes' work can be described as irreverent and serious, purposeful and inconclusive. His paintings explore the hidden images and forgotten or imagined stories of the exuberant everyday life he sees. As a young artist he became involved in the Chicano Art Movement in and around Los Angeles, developing relationships with artists such as Carlos Almaraz.FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.


