Claudia Contla

Trilce Ediciones traveling exhibition. 

Exhibition design, production and management. 

Design needed to be lively, portable, and true to the colors and textures of Mexico, so visitors could feel what it’s like to experience Mexican street graphics in context. It also needed to be flexible, so curatorial discourse could come across in a wide variety of galleries in different countries. Fabrication budget was modest. I managed all traveling aspects of the exhibition, lead communication with institutions, sponsors and vendors and organized publicity and inauguration events. I scouted each exhibition space to customize the set-up, then supervised installation, coordinating local installers and vendors.

Curators: Déborah Holtz, Juan Carlos Mena and Oscar Reyes

Trilce Ediciones traveling exhibition. 

Exhibition design, production and management. 

Artist Lourdes Grobet has spent more than 40 years photographing the world of Mexican lucha libre. I designed and installed this exhibition of her work in busy Mexico City subway stations, a popular concert venue, and art galleries around Europe. Graphics were made adaptable by printing and installing them as wheat pastings, taking the original method of lucha libre poster production as inspiration. I sourced antique gilded frames for over 80 photographs. The project included several Lucha Libre demonstrations and autograph sessions which with the wrestlers which I coordinated, some turned into massive events.

Curators: Lourdes Grobet and Juan Carlos Mena

Trilce Ediciones temporary exhibition. 

Project Manager 

Curators - Déborah Holtz and Juan Carlos Mena

Art Direction - Oscar Reyes

Rejas de Chapultepec, Mexico City.

ARTO, MUJAM and MAMUTT  Urban Art Festival.

Artists' Liaison. Logistics and production manager.

All City Canvas was a Mexico City-wide festival of urban art, with artists from around the world painting large scale on some of Mexico City’s most iconic buildings. I managed logistics and production: overseeing artist travel; everyday scheduling; acquisition of equipment (such as cranes); overseeing on-site supervision of eight simultaneous outdoor locations for street art interventions.

Trilce Ediciones temporary exhibition

Exhibition Design, Project Management.

The Mexican Cycles exhibition, focusing on Mexico’s numerous indigenous communities, was designed and fabricated in Mexico City and installed at the Smithsonian, Washington D.C., in 2007.

My design was inspired by the banners, mounted on poles, that indigenous Mexicans have used during processions since pre-Colombian times: we printed the exhibitions images on fabric to emulate this effect. I was also responsible for design and fabrication of crates, arranging shipping, clearing customs and acquiring insurance.

Curator: Juan Carlos Mena.

Exhibition design and production. 

An exhibition about Mexico’s long history as a destination for asylum seekers and political refugees.

I conceptualized, designed, coordinated and produced the exhibition and also the workshops and conferences around it for the venues in Mexico, Spain and England.

Gaetano Pesce exhibition Galerie Nathalie Obadia Brussels

Exhibition and art work production coordination.

MoMA Museum of Modern Art Participatory Space

Exhibition and product design.

The Creativity Lab is a participatory space where projects take up critical questions inspired by art on view and invites creativity, personal reflection, and exchange with others.

I designed and fabricated a custom made modular display system as well as accessories and containers needed for a wide range of activities.

Museo Nacional de la Vivienda INFONAVIT

Art and Experience Design Director.

Turnkey museum project about the right to adequate housing through interactive and participatory exhibitions.