Curator
Santiago Mostyn Appointed Curator of 14th Edition
We are pleased to share that Santiago Mostyn has been appointed curator of the 14th edition of Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA), organised by Röda Sten Konsthall. From 4 September to 21 November 2027, the biennial will take shape across Gothenburg through collaborations with art institutions and venues across the city.
Santiago Mostyn is an artist based in Stockholm who works within film, installation, and performance. His practice can be viewed as an ongoing visual research framework in which non-aligned histories and personal memory intersect. Mostyn grew up in Trinidad and Zimbabwe, received his BA from Yale University, and was the 2024–25 Logie Fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
Mostyn curated, together with Joa Ljungberg, The Moderna Exhibition: With the Future Behind Us (2018), a comprehensive presentation of artists connected to the Swedish art scene that reckoned with questions of cultural and spiritual identity. Together with Susanna Marcus Jablonski, Mostyn was commissioned to create Sweden’s first anti-racist monument, the result of a long-term civic initiative. The monument was inaugurated in Malmö in October 2026.
Regarding his appointment and curatorial proposal for GIBCA 2027, Santiago Mostyn writes:
I appreciate the trust of the biennial team to develop a project that resists familiar thematic frameworks but at the same time is very focused on tracing the contours of a crucial new form of subjectivity. We’re approaching the process with subtlety, with openness, and a bit of a dare to ourselves to render things in the present tense.
More about Santiagos practice.
An initial curatorial outline of the project will be presented publicly at Röda Sten Konsthall on November 18, 2026.
Röda Sten Konsthall is the main organiser of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art. GIBCA 2027 is produced by Röda Sten Konsthall in collaboration with Göteborgs Konsthall and Gothenburg City Library