María Berríos

María Berríos is a Chilean ex-sociologist, writer, educator, mother, and curator. Her work explores art, culture, and politics in Latin America and beyond. Her research has delved into stories of experimental forms of counternarration, collective experiments in radical pedagogies, and internationalist artistic solidarity movements, with a special interest in their exhibition formats. She has been a professor and guest tutor at several universities and art academies in Europe and Latin America, and has published her work extensively. Berríos was one of four curators of the 11th Berlin Biennale, The Crack Begins Within (2019–2020), and is currently the Director of the tenth edition of the Independent Study Programme (PEI) at the Museo d’ Arte Contemporani Barcelona (MACBA): “Sol y dar y dad”. Collective Learning for an Inadmissible Present. She is currently working, together with Daniel Gasol, on an exhibition featuring the 1970s video collective Video Nou and other international examples, reflecting on video and film as a strategy for counterinformation in reactionary times.