Curated by is a contemporary art festival that takes place every year across Vienna’s leading galleries. Each participating space invites an international curator to develop an exhibition in response to a shared theme, this year’s theme is Love. All participating galleries and curators are invited to work with Ariana Reines’s essay On Love, which serves as a shared point of reflection for the festival.
For this year’s edition of Curated by, we are excited to announce the gallery's collaboration with curators Anna Roberta Goetz and Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo. Their exhibition Clothes (Kleidung) will present a solo show by Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo).
OPENING WEEKEND
September 11 – 13, 2026
Friday 11, 12 – 9 pm
Saturday 12, 11 am – 6 pm
Sunday 13, 11 am – 6 pm
The curator Anna Roberta Goetz initiates and directs cultural projects internationally. Her areas of interest focus on artistic strategies that challenge dominant hierarchies, narratives, and structures in society. Most recently, she was co-curator of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo (2025). Before, she held curator positions at the Marta Herford Museum (2022/23) and the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main (2013–2017) and responsible for the German Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale (2013) as project manager at the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa). From 2017 to 2022, she worked as an independent curator between Mexico and Europe, cooperating with various organizations and museums, writing for international publications (also as an editor) and art magazines, and teaching at various international art academies.
Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo widely known by the moniker Puppies Puppies, expands ideas around the readymade by imbuing ubiquitous and everyday objects, signifiers, and actions with a personal and political charge. She has, for example, reconfigured antibacterial gel dispensers, toilet bowl liquid, the color green, as well as the acts of sleeping, peeing, and taking a pill in installations and performances that challenge ableist frameworks of artistic and capitalist production. Many of Puppies Puppies’s exhibitions have also included actionable components: a GoFundMe campaign to support a friend’s transition fund, free HIV testing and counseling, and a working shower available for use by the public. Kuriki-Olivo thus asserts that life can be viewed as its own form of endurance practice, especially for those whose very survival is at stake, including trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people of color.
— Written by New Museum curator Vivian Crockett
