OPENSPACE FOR OCEAN SPACE

Monday, April 7, we will be hosted by the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice as part of the PhD program "OPENSPACE – Multimedia Intersections between Visual and Digital Arts with Entrepreneurial Productions, Scientific Research, and Contemporary Cultural Studies."

TBA21 co-director Markus Reymann, curator Yina Jiménez Suriel, and artist Nadia Huggins will speak about TBA21–Academy’s curatorial fellowship program, "The Current IV," and explore the themes of the exhibition at Ocean Space.

The event is free and open to all.

Markus Reymann is Co-Director of TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, a leading international art and advocacy foundation created in 2002 by the philanthropist, art patron and ocean advocate Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, representing the fourth generation of the Thyssen family’s commitment to the arts and public service. TBA21—based in Madrid, with situated projects in Venice and Jamaica—stewards the TBA21 Collection and its outreach activities, which include exhibitions, educational offers, and public programming. In 2011, together with Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, Markus co-founded TBA21–Academy, the foundation’s research arm, fostering a deeper relationship with the Ocean and other bodies of water by working as an incubator for collaborative inquiry, artistic production, and environmental advocacy.

Yina Jiménez Suriel, curator and researcher with a master's degree in visual studies. Her curatorial practice is nourished by the transdisciplinary research she develops around the construction of imagination, contemporary emancipatory processes and reconciliation with constant movement, entitled la historia de las montañas. She is Adjunct Curator of the 14th Bienal do Mercosul (2025); Fellow curator of The Current IV by TBA21-Academy and Associate Editor of Contemporary And (C&) for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Nadia Huggins was born in Trinidad and Tobago and grew up in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, where she is currently based. A self taught artist, she works in photography and, since 2010, has built a body of images that are characterized by her observation of and interest in the everyday. Her work merges documentary and conceptual practices, which explore ecology, belonging, identity, and memory through a contemporary approach focused on re-presenting Caribbean landscapes and the sea.