Dr Sofia Gotti is an art historian and curator specializing in modern and contemporary art in South America. Her work broadly focuses on the intersections of radical politics, art, and popular culture, to consider how patriarchal, colonial and racial orders can be destabilised or diffused. Sofia is currently working on a large-scale grant application focused on Art and Populism. Her first monograph 鈥淧op Countercultures鈥 is under contract with Liverpool University Press.
In 2024 she was part of the curatorial team of , the 60th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia. The same year, she curated the XX Biennale Donna in Ferrara titled . Previously, she worked on numerous exhibitions at institutions including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museums, Castello di Rivoli Museo d鈥橝rte Contemporanea, FM-Centro per l鈥橝rte Contemporanea, The Americas Society, and commercial galleries internationally.
Sofia studied Curating at Central Saint Martins and History of Art here at the Courtauld. She completed a collaborative PhD studentship between Chelsea College of Art and Tate linked to the 2015 exhibition (Tate Modern, 2015). She held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and an associate Lectureship at the University of Cambridge鈥檚 History of Art Department and Centre of Latin American Studies. She also taught at Milan鈥檚 Nuova Accademia delle Belle Arti (NABA).
Teaching
- MA Curating, core module, 鈥楾he Practice of Curating鈥
- MA Curating, elective module, 鈥榃orking with Artists鈥
- MA History of Art, Critical Debates: 鈥楢rchival Bodies鈥
Upcoming and recent publications
Monograph
Pop Counterculture: Pop Art, Radicalism and Sexual Politics in Argentina Under Military Rule (under contract with Liverpool University Press)
This book situates the work of Pop artists in Argentina within dissident counterculture, across the sixties and seventies. While often perceived as a-political or vaudeville, artists working in tension with the language of consumerism and the mass media, advanced their political causes from sexual liberation to gender equality and civil rights.
Articles
- 鈥樷淢odern Art, Indigeneity and Nationalism in Paraguay: An introduction to Josefina Pl谩鈥檚 鈥樏慳ndut铆: Crossroads of Two Worlds,鈥欌 ARTMargins (accepted for publication, forthcoming).
- 鈥,鈥 The Journal of Modern Craft (guest editors Claire Jones and Imogen Hart), Dec 2022.
- 鈥,鈥 Burlington Contemporary, June 202,1 Issue 4: Art from Latin America.
- 鈥,鈥 in ARTMargins, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2016).
- 鈥楢 Pantagruelian Pop: Teresinha Soares鈥檚 鈥淓rotic Art of Contestation,鈥濃 Tate Papers, no.24, Autumn 2015. Reprinted in: Adriano Pedrosa, Camila Bechelany and Rodrigo Moura (eds.), , S茫o Paulo: MASP, 2017.听
Book chapters
- 鈥淪ofia Gotti and Marko Ilic, 鈥Points of Origin: From a History of Alternative Art to a History of Alternative Institutions,鈥 in Meredith A. Brown and Michelle Fischer (eds.), Collaboration and its (Dis)Contents Art, Architecture, and Photography since 1950, (London: Courtauld Books Online, 2017).
- 鈥淎n Index of Modernity: Feminist Furniture by Teresa Burga and Beatriz Gonz谩lez,鈥 in Flavia Frigeri and Kristian Handberg (eds.), Multiple Modernisms – New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era, London: Routledge, March 2021.
- 鈥淭he Art vs. Politics Conundrum: The Case of Carla Accardi and Carla Lonzi, 1963-1973,鈥 in Andrea Giunta, Dorota Biczel, Fabiana Lopes, et al. (eds.), Semin谩rio Internacional Bienal 12, 12陋 Bienal do Mercosul, 2020, pp. 183-190.
- 鈥淎 State of Alert: Eroticism as Political Activism in South American Drawing,鈥 in Kelly Chorpering et. al. (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Drawing, London: Wiley Blackwell Publishing, 2021.
Exhibition Catalogues
- 鈥淏anderas de lucha: The Insurgent Textiles of Claudia Alarc贸n & Sil盲t,鈥 in Adriano Pedrosa and Laura Cosendey (eds.), Claudia Alarcon and Sil盲t, S茫o Paulo: MASP, 2026 (forthcoming).
- 鈥淥felia Rodr铆guez: Beyond the Fantastic,鈥 in Carmen Juli谩 (ed.), Ofelia Rodr铆guez : Talking in Dreams, Bristol: Spike Island, 2024.
- 鈥淏ehind the Scenes of Tomie Ohtake鈥檚 Abstraction: Collage, Marginality and Eros,鈥 in Paulo Miyada (ed.), Tomie Ohtake Dan莽ante, S茫o Paulo: Instituto Tomie Ohtake, 2022.
- 鈥淏etween Craft and Sculpture: Carla Accardi, Giuseppe Civitelli and Nedda Guidi,鈥 in Giuseppe Civitelli, Milan: Montrasio, 2023.
- 鈥淢ondo: Towards New Ecologies of Knowledge,鈥 in Pietro Scammacca and Claudio Gulli (eds.), Lachea, Catania: Istituto Sicilia, 2021.
- 鈥淐ontextualising Irma Blank鈥檚 Aesthetic of Silence,鈥 in Irma Blank, New York: Luxembourg & Dayan, 2019.
- Dadamaino: A Full Time Struggle, New York: Mendes Wood DM, 2018.
- Sergio Lombardo: Gesti Tipici and Monochromes, London: Sprovieri, 2017.
- 鈥淲altercio Caldas: An Introduction,鈥 in Waltercio Caldas, London: Cecilia Brunson Projects, 2017.
- Artist Biographies, in Flavia Frigeri and Jessica Morgan (eds.), The EY Exhibition: The World Goes Pop, London: Tate Publishing, 2015.
Writing for a wider public
- 鈥Eroticism, humour and Graves: A conversation with Teresinha Soares,鈥 paradoxa, Vol. 36 London: KT Press, July 2015.
- ,鈥 Nero Editions, 12 July 2021,
- 鈥,鈥 Madrazine, #7, March 2020.
- 鈥溾, Mousse Magazine, March 2020.
- 鈥,鈥 Flash Art International Online, May 2019.
- 鈥泪,鈥 Flash Art Italia Online, 22 May 2019.
- 鈥,鈥 Flash Art Italia, n 340, July/September 2018
- 鈥淲illys de Castro: From Paintings to Objects 1950-1965,鈥 Arte Al D铆a, n. 152, 2017.
Exhibition reviews
- 鈥,鈥 Nero Editions Online, September 2020.
- 鈥,鈥 Nero Editions, Milan, February 2020.
- 鈥,鈥 Flash Art Italia, #344, pp. 150-151.
- 鈥.鈥 Revista Hisp谩nica Moderna, Volume 72, Number 2, December 2019, pp. 229-232.
Exhibitions
, the 60th International Art Exhibition (curatorial team)
La Biennale di Venezia, Apr-Nov 2024
Yours in Solidarity, XX Biennale Donna (co-curator)
Palazzo Bonacossi, Ferrara, Apr-Jun 2024
Italian Embassy in London, Oct 2023
(co-curator)
Chert Luedde, Berlin, Apr-Aug 2023
Italian Embassy in London, Oct 2022
Galeria Fuga y Mora, Asunci贸n, May-Jul 2022
Villa Era, Biella, May-Jun 2021
Preview.art, online, Dec 2020 鈥 Jan 2021
Universit脿 Sconosciuta @ Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Milan, Sep 2019 鈥 Feb 2020
Co-founder of public programming initiative hosted by Fondazione Feltrinelli, Milan. Guests including artists Joseph Kosuth, Anna Maria Maiolino, Joana Escovall.
Blum&Poe, New York, Apr – Jun 2019
FM Centre for Contemporary Art, Milan, Apr – May 2019
Claudio Tozzi (curator)
Houssein Jarouche Gallery, S茫o Paulo, Apr – Jul 2018
The Feminist Institute, Public Programming (curator)
Various Locations, NYC, Mar 2017 鈥 Feb 2018
Guests including Donna Haraway, Sheryl Sandberg and others.
Mendes Wood DM, New York, Feb 鈥 Apr 2018
AS/COA, New York, Jun 鈥 Sep 2017