Raphael Fonseca and Yina Jiménez Suriel to Curate 2027 Edition of Iceland’s Sequences Festival
58Dec. 4, 2025
The organizers ofReykjavík’s biennial art festival Sequences have announced Raphael Fonseca and Yina Jiménez Suriel as the artistic directors of the event’s thirteenth iteration, to take place October 2027. The two were chosen from among seventy respondents to an open call issued earlier this year.
“We are delighted and honored to curate Sequences in 2027,” said the pair in a statement. “We believe this is an exceptional opportunity for us to learn about the art scene inIcelandand across the Nordic region. We also hope that, in parallel, our experiences, which have been predominantly working with artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the so-called Global South, can inform Iceland’s creative community. Collaboration is essential in both of our creative processes as curators, and we are eager to deepen it during the next two years in Reykjavík.“
The Rio de Janeiro–born Fonseca has since 2021 served as curator and head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art at the Denver Art Museum. He is the curator of artist Yi-Fan Li’s Taiwan pavilion at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale and a member of the curatorial team for the Third Counterpublic Triennial in St. Louis. Both events are set to take place in in 2026. Fonseca was previously chief curator of the Fourteenth Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Jiménez Suriel, who was born and lives in the Dominican Republic, is the curator of The Current IV, a transdisciplinary curatorial program by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary TBA21–Academy. She is the associate editor for Latin America and the Caribbean at Contemporary And (C&). Jiménez Suriel served as adjunct curator of the Fourteenth Bienal do Mercosul and co-curated the opening section of ARCOmadrid in 2023 and 2024. Launched in 2006, Sequences casts itself as a “real-time art festival,” highlighting time-based media including video, film, and performance