Kantuta Quirós

Born in La Paz, Bolivia
Lives and works in Paris

Kantuta Quirós is a curator, art theorist, filmmaker, and co-founder with Aliocha Imhoff of the platform le peuple qui manque , created in 2005, which works between art and research to create a new ecology of knowledge (scenographies of contemporary thought, diplomatic fictions, fictional trials, assemblies, and thought experiments on a 1:1 scale). Among her curatorial projects are L'Ecole des Impatiences (Dieppe Museum, 2023); A Debt of Times (Konsthall C, Stockholm, 2018); Le procès de la fiction (Nuit Blanche, 2017); Une Constituante migrante (Centre Pompidou, 2017); A Government of Times (Leipzig Hall 14, 2016); La frontera nos cruzo (Museo de la Inmigración Buenos Aires, 2015); Au-delà de l'effet Magiciens (Fondation Gulbenkian, Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, 2015), etc. She has published Qui parle ? (pour les non-humains) (PUF, 2022), Les potentiels du temps (Manuella Editions, 2016, re-published in Poche Flammarion 2024), and edited Géoesthétique (B42, 2014) and Histoires afropolitaines de l'art (Multitudes 53-54, 2014). She is a member of the editorial committee of the Multitudes journal. Her filmography includes Pachakuti (presented at the 6th Mardin Biennial, Turkey, 2024), Les Impatients (2019), Que demandent-ils ? À y devenir quelque chose (Lyon Biennial, 2019), Première déclaration du musée apatride (2018), etc. She is a lecturer at Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne - École des Arts de la Sorbonne.