Daniela Labra (Santiago de Chile) founded Zait in 2020. She is a curator, writer, and educator. She has a degree in Theatre Theory from Uni-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, a PhD in Art History and Criticism from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with a research fellowship at Universitat de Barcelona. Her thesis, "International legitimisation of Brazilian Art: analysis of a parkour, 1940-2010," won the Gilberto Velho Prize for thesis, 2015. Postdoc Fellow at the UFRJ School of Communication, 2015-16.

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Daniela investigates Brazilian and Latin American counter-hegemonic art history, performance, politics, and radical pedagogies among other topics. She has collaborated with publications and institutions in Brazil, Latam and Europe since 2003. She contributed to articles and projects at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Texte zur Kunst, SESC São Paulo, Revista Celeste, Revista Terremoto, Concinnitas Journal, Arts of the Working Class, On Curating, nGbK Berlin, Arte & Ensaios Journal, O Globo Newspaper (from 2014 to 2016), and others.

 

Curated projects: Pilar Millán: Un Lugar Especial. Museo La Neomudéjar, Madrid, 2026;  Regina José Galindo: Primavera Democrática. Galeria 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 many others.

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

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She lives and works in Berlin and Rio de Janeiro since 2017.

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