Ana Ruiz Valencia
Curator and improviser 1989, Colombia; based in Medellín
Ana Ruiz Valencia is a curator, musician, improviser, and researcher based in Medellín, Colombia. A violinist dedicated to experimental music and free improvisation, she collaborates with musicians, writers, and artists within and beyond her country. In her curatorial practice, she experiments with nontraditional formats for presenting contemporary art, focusing on interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches. Her work explores the aural dimension of art through an expanded interpretation of the visual, media, and performing arts. Recently, her curatorial research has turned toward questioning colonial metanarratives and opening museum spaces to unconventional artistic practices, and, more recently, to the environmental, social, and political dimensions of food.
Her artistic and research projects have been presented at Radical Sounds Latin America (Germany), the Tsonami International Festival of Sound Art (Chile), the IN/OUT Festival (Switzerland and Colombia), the University of Guadalajara (Mexico), and the Spectra Festival at the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), among others. Her writings have appeared in Cimarron: Freedom and Masquerade (Thames & Hudson, 2019) and in journals such as Almanac (Struer Tracks Sound Biennale, Denmark), Border Listening (Germany), Aural (Chile), Revista UNAM (Mexico), and Contemporary And Latin America.
She has worked as a curator at the Museo de la Universidad de Antioquia and the Auditum Sound Art Festival in Medellín, as well as on the curatorial team of Colombia’s 45 Salón Nacional de Artistas. She currently works as a junior curator at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín.
