Curator Talk and Minibar
Commune: NADA x UKS

Please join us on Wednesday 18 September when we present this year’s NADA x UKS curatorial resident, Yiyo Tirado-Rivera!

Each year, UKS collaborates with the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), a not-for-profit collective of professionals working with contemporary art in the US to invite international cultural workers for a one-week curatorial residency in Norway. This year we are happy to welcome Yiyo Tirado-Rivera, all the way from Puerto Rico. Yiyo is an artist and curator and co-founder of contemporary art space and curatorial platform El Kilometro.

On the night, Yiyo will be in conversation with gallerist Felipe R. Pena, founder of two galleries separated by an ocean: Cavalo in Rio de Janeiro and Papai Contemporary in his home in Sankt Hanshaugen. The two will discuss the joys and sorrows of running an art space as well as Yiyo’s ongoing focus on the impact of colonialism on artistic production.

Everyone is welcome!

Yiyo Tirado-Rivera (b. 1990, PR) lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is a multidisciplinary artist, exhibition designer and gallery owner. In 2015 he founded the contemporary art space and curatorial platform El Kilometro with artist Karlo Andrei Ibarra, where they have generated over 80 exhibitions so far.

Felipe R. Pena (b. 1988, BR) is based between Oslo and Rio de Janeiro. He is an independent curator, co-founder and director of Cavalo, a Brazilian gallery for contemporary art, which he runs together with his associate Ana Elisa Cohen. Since 2023, he has also run Papai Contemporary, a gallery in his own apartment in Oslo.

COMMUNE is an event series moulding the new UKS spaces in Keysers gate 1 into an artistic, theoretical and social meeting place with the help of a variety of local and international agents from the arts and cultural spheres.