To mark Latitudes’ 20th anniversary this April 2025, we have refreshed the design of our Portfolio. The 10th edition is available in desktop, mobile, and print formats.

Looking back, our first anniversary in April 2006 was a whirlwind. We were deep in the editorial process of “LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook” (published in December 2006), an anthology co-edited by the Royal Society of Arts and Arts Council England. Amid that hectic process, we forgot to commemorate.

Five years later, in 2010, we marked the occasion with our 22nd newsletter – our first featuring a birthday candle. At the time, we were gearing up for a road trip from Barcelona to London to take part in another milestone: Tate Modern's 10th Anniversary. To mark the occasion, artist Maurizio Cattelan and curators Cecilia Alemani and Massimiliano Gioni organised the second edition of NO SOUL FOR SALE - A Festival of Independents, which occupied Tate's Turbine Hall for a long weekend in mid-May 2010. Our journey was itself an artwork—Martí Anson, in his role as artist-cum-chauffeur, drove us to London and back as part of his project “Mataró Chauffeur Service”, ensuring we arrived in style (or rather truly tired) for the celebration.

The 2020 redesign is still mostly up today, with a few updates, such as the font.

We can't believe two decades have flown by since we decided to give it a go as freelancers. This April 2025 finds us recovering from two major exhibitions that opened this past February– two much-anticipated solo exhibitions in Madrid. The first is the survey of Mexican-born, Bilbao-based artist Jorge Satorre at the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Móstoles. The second is also a survey, featuring the work of Barcelona-based artist Laia Estruch, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Both exhibitions are accompanied by the artists’ first monographs, covering works created from 2011 to the present. Estruch’s monograph will be available later in Spring, while Satorre’s, co-published by Museo CA2M and Caniche Editorial, is already available for purchase online (€30, including shipping within Spain) here and from Museo CA2M front desk.

Pages of “Rio [River]” (2025) copublished by Museo CA2M and Caniche Editorial. Photos: Latitudes.

Mock-up of the Spanish edition of “Laia Estruch. Hello Everyone” published by the Museo Reina Sofía. Available from Spring 2025.

Speaking of books, we’re pleased to announce that our publications are now more widely accessible. The Library and Documentation Centre of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain) has been added to the list of institutions where a complete (or nearly complete) collection of Latitudes publications is available for public reference.

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• Latitudes’ 15th anniversary and rebuilt and redesigned website, 2 May 2020
• Reduce Art Flights website refreshed, 5 February 2020
• Latitudes' redesigned portfolio – projects since 2005 (20 February 2019)
• Lawrence Weiner tote bag and sugar sachets at the McManus Museum and Galleries in Dundee (26 November 2018)
• Lawrence Weiner's THE CREST OF A WAVE tote bag in the Tate Archive and exhibited at The McManus Museum and Galleries, Dundee, 26 October 2018
• Newsletter #22 – April 2010, 8 April 2010
• Latitudes' 4th anniversary, 2 April 2009

The April 2022 monthly Cover Story “Mix & Match: Laia Estruch at PUBLICS” is now up on our homepage: www.lttds.org

“On 17 March 2022, the first event of a year-long “Parahosting” collaboration between Latitudes and PUBLICS took place in Helsinki. The Parahosting programme of PUBLICS began in 2018, and it has grown into a key method of decentering the authorship of the curatorial agency through a flexible, evolving, expanding, and sometimes messy, practice of working together.” Continue reading

→ After April 2022 this story will be archived here.

Cover Stories' are published on a monthly basis on Latitudes' homepage featuring past, present or forthcoming projects, research, texts, artworks, exhibitions, films, objects or field trips related to our curatorial projects and activities.

• Archive of Monthly Cover Stories
• Cover Story—November 2019: ‘Fighting fires in Valencia: the 30-year story of the IVAM’ 1 November 2019
• Cover Story—October 2019: Mercedes Azpilicueta in Helsinki 1 October 2019
• Cover Story—September 2019: ‘Polperro to Detroit’ 4 September 2019
• Cover Story—Summer 2019: Francesc Ruiz’s Brexit Bristol sequel, ten years ago 1 July 2019
• Cover Story—June 2019: Thinking like a drainage basin: Lara Almarcegui’s ‘Concrete’ 1 June 2019
• Cover Story—May 2019: Buenos Aires in Parallel 1 May 2019
• Cover Story—March-April 2019: "Icelandic refraction" 3 March 2019
• Cover Story—February 2019: Schizophrenic Machine (1 February 2019)
• Cover Story—January 2019: “Seesaw” (7 January 2019)

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Parallel Rooms | Session 2 | Room 3
"First Things First: Making Exhibitions for a General Audience"

Saturday 13 April 2019
6:30—7:30pm

In this conversation, curators Max Andrews and Lara Marmor will discuss the challenges around what has become their primary job: curating and positioning an exhibition for a non-expert audience. Together they discuss: Are there curatorial strategies for speaking to a larger public? What can we do to encourage novices to visit an exhibition and help them enjoy it?

This session is free and open to the public and will be held in Spanish.

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Parallel Rooms | Session 3 | Room 2

"Beyond the Museum: New Institutional Frames for Art"

Saturday 13 April 2019
7:30—8:30pm

Art is no longer confined to just museums; we can enjoy exhibitions in abandoned buildings, parks, and other unconventional spaces. But the contexts for art are also changing in another sense, as new curatorial narratives shift traditional definitions of art and allow artists to engage in refreshing interactions with the culture at large. In this talk, curators Mariana Cánepa Luna and Solana Molina Viamonte discuss the transformation of traditional art spaces and the evolving relationship between the art lover and the curator.

This session is free and open to the public and will be held in Spanish.
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• 15 November 2017, 4:30–8pm: 'The Return of the Earth. Ecologising art history in the Anthropocene' study day at the CAPC musée, Bordeaux.
• Lead Faculty, ‘Geologic Time’, Banff International Curatorial Institute, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada, September 11–October 6, 2017.
• Flow Series #11: Conversación entre Haegue Yang y Latitudes, 3 mayo 2017, 19:30h
• Lecture, “You're such a curator!”, De Appel Curatorial Programme Summit, Amsterdam, 23–24 November 2016.
• Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna in conversation with Nicholas Mangan on 7 July 2016
• Panel discussion, ‘Rethinking Institutions’, Athens Biennale 2015–2017 ‘OMONOIA’ Summit, Athens, 18–19 November 2015.
• 'Near-Future Artworlds Curatorial Disruption Foresight Group' seminar convenes in its third iteration in Birmingham's Eastside Projects, 15 November 2015 11 November 2015 
• Session with first-year participants of the MA Curatorial Practice at the California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco, 8 September 15 September 2015

• La exposición es un estado de transformación permanente. 
• La exposición como algo oscilante entre el objeto y el proceso, afirmando que “la noción de proceso ha penetrado en nuestro sistema de certidumbres”.
• La exposición de identidades múltiples.
• La exposición como algo pionero, activo y que no se guarda nada.
• La exposición como verdad relativa.
• La exposición basada en una concepción dinámica de la historia del arte.
• La exposición “elástica”: presentaciones flexibles en un edificio adaptable.
• La exposición como puente entre los artistas y las diversas disciplinas científicas.

• Latitudes' Curatorial practice
• Latitudes' writing

• "4.543 billion. The matter of matter" in pictures.
• Guest Faculty of the Thematic Residency 'Blueprint for Happiness' at The Banff Centre, Canada, 27 July–8 August 2015 16 July 2015
• Cover Story – April 2017: Banff Geologic Time 3 April 2017
• Cover Story – December 2016: Ten years ago – Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook 5 December 2016 
• Cover Story – May 2016: Material histories – spilling the beans at the CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux 10 May 2016.
• Second research trip to Bordeaux 16 July 2016 

 Above: de Appel director Niels van Tomme during his welcome speech.  
This and following photos: Carina Erdmann/De Appel.

Latitudes participated in de Appel Arts Centre two-day symposium "You are such a curator!" on 23 and 24 November 2016. Coinciding with the Amsterdam Art Weekend, the event presented lectures, discussions, performances and papers marking the conclusion of a three-year research project into the dynamics of de Appel’s curatorial programme and its position in the wider field of curatorial education.

Latitudes' presention "Following the Holy Greyhound" reflected "on the disinterment of a sculpture from 1991 – part of an exhibition by the Venezuelan artist José Antonio Hernández-Díez curated by Latitudes at MACBA, Barcelona, earlier this year – and their approach to a group exhibition in preparation for CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux in 2017. Their point of departure was responding to the question "what does the wrongful killing of a dog in medieval France have to tell us about the micro and the macro, the hyper-specific and the universal?"  

 

Abstracted images by Claudia Martínez Garay. 

San Serriffe art book shop in the red light district.

• The story behind José Antonio Hernández-Díez's 'San Guinefort' (1991) 29 March 2016
• David Jablonowski's "Hype Cycle" at Fons Welters, Amsterdam 14 December 2014;
• Report from the Amsterdam Art Weekend, 27–30 November 2014 now on Storify 2 December 2014;
• The Dutch Assembly, ARCOmadrid, 15–19 February 2012.