Solange O. Farkas

Solange O. Farkas is a curator and director of Associação Cultural Videobrasil. She created the Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil in 1983 and was director and chief curator of the Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia from 2007 to 2010. She took part as guest curator of the 10th Sharjah Biennial (United Arab Emirates, 2011), 16th Cerveira Biennial (Portugal, 2011), 5th Videozone – International Video Art Biennial (Israel, 2010), FUSO – Videoarte Annual Exhibition (Portugal, 2011–2014 and 2017), and 6th Jakarta International Video Festival (Indonesia, 2013). She is a member of the Prince Claus Fund Award Committee 2017 and of the advisory board of the Pivô art venue in São Paulo. In 2017 she received the Montblanc Arts Patronage Award, a prize awarded by the German foundation to professionals with outstanding background and experience in supporting the development of diverse artistic and cultural expressions.