In the Studio: Gala Berger

Join us live on Instagram from your cell phone or watch here and on YouTube after, for a series of remote visits to artists' studios to bring Americas Society's Visual Arts public programs to your home. Contemporary artists will dialogue with Director and Chief Curator of Visual Arts Aimé Iglesias Lukin about their work and practice.

About the artist:

Gala Berger is a visual artist + independent curator living and thinking between San José, Costa Rica and Buenos Aires, Argentina.  She has been a fellow in the RAW Académie CURA#6 (Dakar, 2019) with the mentorship of Koyo Kouoh;. She is co-founder of La Ene Museum (2010-2020) an experimental museum based in Buenos Aires, and Immigrant (2012) and Urgent (2014) spaces. Her works has been exhibited individually and collectively in: Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Argentina, Sweden, Peru, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, South Korea, Germany, Chile, Ecuador, United States, Puerto Rico, United Arab Emirates, among others. She is currently working in Casa Ma a feminist activist group in Costa Rica, dedicated to create cultural value around the work of womxn artists from Central America, the Caribbean and their diasporas.

Visit the Americas Society Visual Arts YouTube Channel for recordings of In the Studio Series and other previous events.

More digital content from Visual Arts at Americas Society:

• Read the exhibition catalogue for Feliciano Centurión: Abrigo.
• Watch the documentary Feliciano Centurión: Abrazo Íntimo al Natural, directed by Mon Ross (2016).
• Watch recent events videos:
  • Curator's Perspective – Jacopo Crivelli Visconti
  • "I Am Reborn at Every Moment" – Contemporary Reflections on Feliciano Centurión and AIDS
  • Ulises Carrión – Art, Mail, Books, and So…
  • Book Launch: Alejandra Seeber – Picture This Featuring the Artist in Conversation with Guillermo Kuitca

Image caption: Gala Berger. Courtesy of the artist.