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Daniela Labra (Santiago de Chile) founded Zait in 2020. She is a writer, educator, and visual arts curator. Graduated in Theater Theory from Uni-Rio, Rio de Janeiro. PhD in History and Art Criticism from the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with the thesis: International legitimisation of Brazilian Art, analysis of a parkour: 1940-2010, winner of the Gilberto Velho Prize for theses, 2015. Postdoctoral Fellow at the UFRJ School of Communication, 2015-16.

She works mainly with Brazilian art, Latin American historical and aesthetic processes, performance, art and politics. Arts critic in Jornal O Globo (2014-2016). She collaborates with publications and institutions such as Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Texte zur Kunst, SESC São Paulo, Revista Celeste, Revista Concinnitas UERJ, Arts of the Working Class, nGbK Berlin, and others.

 

Selected projects: Regina José Galindo: Primavera Democrática. Gal. Portas Vilaseca, R.J, 2025; Panmela Castro_ Ideias Radicais sobre o Amor. Museo de Arte do Rio, 2024; Lygia Clark & Franz Erhard Walther, Handlung als Skulptur/ Action as Sculpture, FEW Villa, Fulda, DE, 2023-24; Ana Mendieta Silhueta Em Fogo I terra abrecaminhos, SESC Pompéia, SP, 2023-24; museo de la democracia, nGbK, Berlin, 2021; Frestas Triennial 2017: Between Post-truths and Events, SESC Sorocaba, São Paulo; Festival Performance Arte Brasil, MAM Rio de Janeiro, 2011, and others.

Member of the artistic board of Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo.

She lives and works between Berlin and Rio de Janeiro.

© Zait | Daniela Labra

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