Viviane Tabach

Viviane Tabach is a Brazilian curator and art mediator based in Berlin. Her work centers on educational methods within curatorial and artistic practices. Viviane’s research delves into what makes art institutions effective learning spaces and how the public can be better integrated into this context. She has co-founded and co-directed the art space Casa Aberta in São Paulo, where she organized transdisciplinary projects that integrated music, dance, visual arts, and other forms of expression. Currently, Viviane is a member of the collective Cruising Curators and coordinates the project Co-Making Matters, which has a space at Haus der Statistik in Berlin. Viviane Tabach was an art mediator (sobat) for documenta fifteen and co-edited the publication ‘Ever been friend-zoned by an institution?’, which explores the challenges, expectations, and discrepancies of the exhibition from the perspective of art mediation. In 2020, she worked as an art mediator for the Berlin Biennale and KW Institute for Contemporary Art and participated in the 11th Berlin Biennale’s Curatorial Workshop How Now to Gather. She has worked for institutions such as Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Sesc Pompeia, Grassi Museum, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, and others, and has collaborated with projects and spaces such as HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt), Floating University, Arts of the Working Class, Hopscotch Reading Room, OSTEN Festival, and Pilotenkueche Art Residency. Viviane Tabach is currently pursuing two Master’s degrees: Art in Context at Universität der Künste Berlin and Cultures of the Curatorial at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig. She holds a postgraduate degree in Art: Criticism and Curatorship from PUC-SP, as well as a Teaching Practice and Bachelor of Visual Arts degrees from the Instituto de Artes da Universidade Estadual Paulista.