HM&C Art Talks

Cornelia Lauf  is an art historian and curator based in Rome, Italy. She earned her Ph.D. at Columbia University and holds a B.A. from Oberlin College.  

Throughout her career, Dr. Lauf has curated many exhibitions including Artist/Author, Contemporary Artist’s Books (American Federation of Arts, New York), Konstantin Gricic (Casa di Goethe, Rome; Harvard University, Cambridge; Klassik Stiftung, Weimar), Wall to Wall: Carpets by Artists (Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland); and Indeed: Certificates of Authenticity (with Susan Hapgood).

Dr. Lauf was formerly the editor-in-chief at Imschoot, Uitgevers, in Belgium; she co-founded Three Star Books, Paris (2005-2015), and has produced many publications with contemporary artists.  She has lectured at Centre Pompidou; Dia Center for the Arts; Getty Center for the Arts and Humanities; Tate; Museum of Modern Art; and Musei Civici, Venice, among others, and has taught at LUISS; IUAV, Venice, and is currently Visiting Professor at John Cabot University, Rome, and at NABA, Rome.

Her specialty is commissioned projects involving the artist, client, fabricators, and institution.  For these projects, she has managed the production and installation of many unique, and often functional, works of art.

Laura Hakel is a curator, writer and researcher based between Buenos Aires and New York. She is Curator of the Collection and Artistic Projects of Fundación Ama Amoedo. In her previous positions, she was the ISLAA Curatorial Fellow at the New Museum, New York, and Curator at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. Recently, she has contributed to publications, such as the 60th Venice Biennale, Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere (2024), Latin American Artist (2023), and Prime: Art's Next Generation (2022), the last edited by Phaidon Press. She holds a BA in Art History from the University of Buenos Aires and an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center of Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York.

Tie Jojima is Associate Curator and Manager of Exhibitions of Art at Americas Society and a PhD candidate in art history at the Graduate Center, CUNY, specializing in modern and contemporary Latin American art. Jojima has worked on the organization of several exhibitions and their corresponding publications and public events, including Bispo do Rosario: All Existing Materials on Earth (2023), and Geles Cabrera: Museo Escultórico (2022). She has received fellowships and awards from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros travel grant, and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has published academic and curatorial writings in journals including Vistas: Critical Approaches to Latin American Art (ISLAA), Arte & Ensaios, as well as at Americas Society and El Museo del Barrio.