Dr Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Dr Katerina Valdivia Bruch is a Berlin-based independent curator, writer, and researcher. She holds a PhD in Art (University of Reading), an MA in Museum Studies and Critical Theory (Independent Study Programme, MACBA/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), a Cultural Policies and Management Diploma (Universitat de Barcelona), and a BA in Philosophy (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú). Katerina has curated exhibitions, organised talks and symposia, and collaborated with several institutions, including Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Kunstmuseum Bonn, ZKM-Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Instituto Cervantes, Instituto Cultural de León, Para/Site Art Space, 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. Since 2020, 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).

Dance is Katerina's first passion. Her dance projects have taken her to different countries, where she could develop her practice as a choreographer and dancer, as well as a teacher. She has performed, created choreographies and video dance pieces, given contemporary dance lessons and workshops in Germany, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Croatia, Serbia, Poland and Spain. She develops and participates in artistic projects within an interdisciplinary scope. Her projects include participating in the dance exchange programme Point to Pointe in Warsaw (Poland), organised by Asia-Europe Foundation; teaching contemporary dance to the members of Tembi Dance Company in Yogyakarta (Indonesia), hosting video dance workshops in Brazil (Belem do Pará and Recife) and India (Bangalore), and being an artist in residence of the bangaloREsidency at Natya & STEM Dance Company, organised by Goethe-Institut Bangalore (India). Katerina's current focus is on dance in public spaces and video dance.