Sofía Dourron is an independent curator, researcher and writer based in Buenos Aires. Her current work researches the relationships between Latin-American decolonial perspectives and post-humanist philosophy, the notion of the decolonization of the unconscious, ecological thinking, and artistic practices and imaginations. She also researches art institutions in Latin America, focusing on the paradigms of the museum as a colonial device, searching for alternative genealogies that escape the modern universalist canon.

She is currently Curator of Hope the Doors Collapse by Luciana Lamothe, the Argentina Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, and of In the Order of the Stones, by Florencia Levy, the Argentina Pavilion at the 15th Gwangju Biennale. In 2023, whe was Associate Curator of THIS TOO, IS A MAP, the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Other recent projects include: Myths of the Near Future (Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires, 2022), Museum of Hope and Expectation of Life on Earth (Museo Castagnino+Macro, Rosario, 2022), Oceanica, by Nicolás Mastracchio (Móvil, Buenos Aires, 2022), After Nature (arteba, Buenos Aires, 2022), Caudal, by Joaquín Boz (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2022), Temporada Fulgor. Foto Estudio Luisita (Malba, Buenos Aires, 2021), Myths of the Near Future (Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, 2020/Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires, 2022), Landscape with Bear (De Appel, Amsterdam, 2019), Untitled. Elba Bairon (Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 2017) and Avello: joven profesional multipropósito (Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 2017). She has contributed essays for publications on artists such as Belkis Ayón, Laura Códega, Ad Minoliti, Joaquín Boz, Dignora Pastorello, Juan del Prete, Jorge Lezama, Edgardo Vigo and Marta Minujín, among others. Dourron was part of La Ene, Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo, which she directed between 2015 and 2018, and was a Curator at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. She holds a BA in Art History and Management, an MA in Latin American Art History and was a participant in the De Appel Curatorial Programme 2018/2019. In 2019 she was an International Research Fellow at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea.

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