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-published by the Royal Society of Arts in the framework of their Arts & Ecology programme (2005–10) 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 remains largely intact today, with a few updates, including 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 10+ years of work by 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 are 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: monographs such as Lara Almarcegui’s have long been out of print) collection of Latitudes publications is available for public reference.

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(Above and below) Rasmus Nilausen, “The Theatre of Doubts” (2021). Installation view in “Especies de espacios. Una reflexión colectiva sobre qué pensar de este mundo” at Galería Pelaires in Palma, Mallorca. Photos: David Bonet. Courtesy of the artist.

Danish-born, Barcelona-based artist Rasmus Nilausen is presenting, until November 22, 2024, a version of his installation “The Theatre of Doubts” (2021) in the group show “Especies de espacios. Una reflexión colectiva sobre qué pensar de este mundo” at Galería Pelaires in Palma, Mallorca. 

(Above and below) Rasmus Nilausen, “The Theatre of Doubts” (2021). Installation view in “Especies de espacios. Una reflexión colectiva sobre qué pensar de este mundo” at Galería Pelaires in Palma, Mallorca. Photos: David Bonet. Courtesy of the artist.

(Above and below) Rasmus Nilausen, “The Theatre of Doubts” (2021). Installation view in “Panorama. Notes for an Eye Fire”, MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, October 2021–February 2022. Courtesy of the artist. Photos: Roberto Ruiz. 

Rasmus Nilausen’s installation of paintings is a homage to philosopher Giulio Camillo’s sublime and ridiculous attempt to explain the entire universe and allow all its relations and meanings to be beheld at once. Camillo built his “Theatre of Memory” in Venice in around 1530. Inverting the perspective of classical theatre, a single spectator could stand on a central “stage” to look out at an auditorium of seven rows of seven pictures. An occult matrix of divine, celestial, and terrestrial knowledge, this mystical rhetorical device enabled the entirety of existence and its workings to be called to mind and read off. Evidently flawed and over-ambitious, Nilausen’s liberal revival of the memory theatre format draws on 49 works from his own painterly and allegorical universe. Visitors are invited to wander among images that seem to be going for a walk, adopt multiple viewpoints, see unfamiliar connections, and summon new memories. The first row takes on the seven planetary deities of Camillo’s Renaissance design: Diana (the Moon), Mercury, Venus, the Sun (represented by a banquet), Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

Produced by MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona with the support of the Danish Arts Foundation.

More about the work, here (pdf).

Nilausen is also exhibiting “Fixed Ideas,” a solo show at EtHall Gallery in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, presenting new and recent works. The show will be on view until November 7, 2024. 

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• Cover Story, January 2022: “Rasmus’ Doubts”, 2 Jan 2022
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• Press Release: Co-curators of the exhibition “Panorama 21: Notes For An Eye Fire”, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 22 October 2021–27 February 2022, 9 Feb 2021.
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• Curators: ‘Compositions’, Barcelona Gallery Weekend, various locations, Barcelona, 1–4 October 2015. Photos of the intervention "Vera Icon" by Rasmus Nilausen and Pere Llobera at the former house of a priest, Gardens of La Central Bookstore. Part of "Composiciones" a series of artists’ commissions for the Barcelona Gallery Weekend, 1–4 October 2015. Curated by Latitudes.
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Max Andrews from Latitudes (a frieze Contributing Writer) and Angel Lambo (Associate Editor of frieze) shared six highlights of Manifesta 15 for frieze.com 

The 2024 edition of the roving biennial spans 12 cities in and around the Barcelona Metropolitan area, making it one of the most ambitious in scale and reach. However, while its extensive geographical footprint is impressive, questions remain about whether the quality of the exhibitions lives up to its ambitious scope. A hotly debated topic during the opening days was whether the venues’ varying sizes complemented or engulfed the works on display, as is the example of the Tres Xemeneies (Three Chimneys), the colossal former thermal power station by the Besòs river. With over 90 participants and a wide array of interventions, events, and talks, an additional challenge lies in ensuring a cohesive experience across all locations.

Read more

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• Other writing on Latitudes’ website.
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The July–August 2024 monthly Cover Story “” is now up on our homepage: www.lttds.org (after August 2024 this story will be archived here).

“Summer is here and the Cover Story for July and August features Rosa Tharrats’ “AVOC IVIDRAM” (2024), a work that veiled the exterior of Bombon Projects during the opening of her exhibition “Refugia” earlier this year. This show is the focus of Max Andrews’s first contribution to Artforum magazine, appearing in the summer issue.” → Continue reading 

Cover Stories are published monthly 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.

Max Andrews’s first contribution to Artforum reviews “Refugia”, the first solo exhibition of Rosa Tharrats at Bombon Projects in Barcelona, which opened on March 20, 2024. Andrews’ review coincides with the first issue under the new editorial eye of Tina Rivers Ryan, the magazine’s recently appointed editor-in-chief. 

“One could have imagined the exhibition inside as much a sanctum for a spiritual retreat for unwinding the mind/body dualism as an outré couture collection without humans, where inscrutable organic divinities dressed for auspiciousness.” 

Continue reading here.

→ RELATED CONTENT:

• Other writing on Latitudes’ website.
• Reviews, opinions, profiles and interviews published in frieze magazine.
• Panorama traces, a year on, 21 Oct 2022
• Panorama in Madrid and Córdoba, 14 June 2022
• Cover Story, February 2022: Rosa Tharrats’ Textile Alchemy, 1 Feb 2022 
• “Panorama 21: Apunts per a un incendi dels ulls”, MACBA, October 2021–February 2022

December 2022 cover story on www.lttds.org

The December 2022 monthly Cover Story “The Melt Goes On Forever. David Hammons and DART Festival” is now up on our homepage: www.lttds.org

“Latitudes has been collaborating with Dart, the documentary film festival that focuses exclusively on contemporary art, since its inception in 2017. Its sixth edition has just taken place in Barcelona at Sala Phenomena, Cinemes Girona, and MACBA (24-30 November).” Continue reading 

After December 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.