Lia Colombino / Paraguay

Lia is the director of the Museum of Indigenous Arts (Museo del Barro), coordinator of the Espacio/Crítica Seminar and a professor at the Instituto Superior de Arte at the Universidad Columbia del Paraguay. For seven years she attended the cultural theory seminar directed by Ticio Escobar, and through an IFA scholarship worked in global art and on a museums project at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. She is a founder and active member of the cultural collective Ediciones de la Ura, and has been a part of Conceptualismos del Sur since 2009. She has a master’s degree in museology from Valladolid University in Spain.

ORGANIZATION: Museo de Arte Indígena

SHORT BIO: Directora

WEBSITE: www.museodelbarro.org

SESSIONS:

• WE ARE ALIVE! / Voices of Indigenous and Blended Cultures in Museums