Join us for an evening with Cuban artist Tania Bruguera. Learn about the work she is currently developing in her Harvard studio and how these new commissions connect to—and extend—her expansive body of work. Tania Bruguera will be joined in a conversation at ArtLab by Carrie Lambert-Beatty and David Joselit, Harvard Professors in the Art, Film and Visual Studies Department.
The artist Tania Bruguera makes work that connects art to everyday political life, focusing on the transformation of social affect into political effectiveness. Her exhibitions, performances and long-term projects have been intensive interventions on the institutional structure of collective memory, education, and politics. Born and raised in Havana, she has long engaged with the Cuban Revolution’s promises and failures through performances, exhibitions, and complex participatory projects.
Bruguera earned her MFA in performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the founder and director of Cátedra Arte de Conducta (Behavior Art School), the first performance studies program in Latin America. Bruguera’s work has been exhibited at documenta 11, the Guggenheim Museum, and Tate Modern and also at the Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, the Gwangju Biennale, the Istanbul Biennial, and Shanghai Biennale. Her work is in the permanent collections of many institutions around the world, including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana, and the Museum of Modern Art, in New York.
At Harvard University, Bruguera is Senior Lecturer in Media & Performance in Theater, Dance & Media, and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies. She was previously a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute. Read more about Tania Bruguera in the Harvard Gazette. Photo: Nicolas Wefer
LOCATION:ArtLab Harvard University 140 N. Harvard Street Allston, MA 02134 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20260312T220000Z DTEND:20260312T233000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR