André Mesquita

André Mesquita focuses his research on the relationship between art, politics and activism. He holds a PhD in social history from the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Literature and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and is the author of »Insurgências Poéticas: Arte Ativista e Ação Coletiva« (Annablume/FAPESP, 2011). Mesquita is a member of Red Conceptualismos del Sur, was one of the curators of the exhibition »Losing the Human Form. A Seismic Image of the 1980s in Latin America« (Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2012) and cocurated the exhibition »Politicization of Friendship« (Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, 2014).

[Last update: August 2015]