Curated by Flora Fairbairn

Havana, Cuba

Curator
Havana Cultura Visual Arts Project

UK-based Flora Fairbairn has curated a wide range of exhibitions over the last 12 years from ‘Metro-Land’, a group show of works by 54 artists installed in a barn in Oxfordshire and ‘Salon 2007: New British painting and works on paper’ (an exhibition of 50 UK-based artists) to ‘Anticipation’ (an exhibition of the best 25 recent graduates),as well as a range of solo exhibitions of artists such as Benedetto Pietromarchi, Jason Shulman, Rachel Kneebone, Annie Kevans, Nancy Fouts and Iain McKell. Her most recent project is co-curating with Sachie Hernández ‘A Smell that Comes through my Window: Havana Cultura’, an exhibition at Museo del Ron Havana Club showcasing up-and-coming Cuban artists and part of the Havana Cultura Visual Arts Project.

Other projects include co-curating the art for CONCRETE & GLASS in 2008 and 2010; ‘Avatar of Sacred Discontent’, a group show of 30 artists that previewed at Port Eliot Literary Festival and later toured to London; ‘Dunkelheit’, a group show held in the crypt of King’s Cross St Pancras; ‘Carrozza’, a solo show of works by Benedetto Pietromarchi, ‘Young Masters’ (and exhibition of 25 artists who’s work was inspired by Old Masters); ‘We love to kill what we love’, a site-specific show of 15 artists held in an abandoned abattoir in Clerkenwell co-curated with Measure; and ‘Mementoes and other curiosities’, a group show of 17 artists held in the Farmiloes Building as part of the London Architecture Biennale and Art Fortnight London also co-curated with Measure.