The Seven Lives of Carla Stellweg
(Bandung, June 8, 1942 – Cuernavaca, Mexico, October 20, 2025)By Yohanna Magdalene Roa Carla Stellweg and Martha Wilson at WhiteBox, Spring Benefit 2012, New York City Carla Stellweg (1942–2025) was an editor, curator, cultural manager, archivist, researcher, writer, essayist, professor, and art historian. Throughout six decades, she worked transdisciplinarily, moving between the museum, the gallery, […]
Unruly Bodies, Skin as Soil
By Luis Felipe Vélez Cultural Center and Departmental Institute of Fine Arts Curated by Yohanna Roa, September – October 2025 Instituto departamental de Bellas Artes. Exhibition view. Photo INES_Magazina Curatorially Unruly Bodies proposes a reading of what we call the body as a symbolic battlefield of multiple dimensions. Through two exhibitions, seminars, workshops, and the […]
Unyielding Bodies I, Book Release
INES Magazina launches its first printed publication: Unyielding Bodies I. Theory, Practice, Feminisms, and DissidencesEditor: Yohanna M. RoaBilingual Edition: English/Spanish Book Cover – English & Spanish Editions. Cover images: María Evelia Marmolejo, Anonymous 1, Body art. Plazoleta del C.A.M., Cali, Colombia, 1981 Photo: Fabio Arango Courtesy of the artist INES Magazina proudly announces the release […]
Lanzamiento del libro cuerpas Desobedientas I
INES Magazina lanza su primera publicación impresa: Unyielding Bodies I. Teoría, práctica, feminismos y disidenciasEditora: Yohanna M. RoaEdición bilingüe: inglés/español Portada del libro – Ediciones en inglés y en español. Imágenes de portada: María Evelia Marmolejo, Anónimo 1, Arte corporal, Plazoleta del C.A.M., Cali, Colombia, 1981. Fotografía: Fabio Arango. Cortesía de la artista INES Magazina […]
Can We Overthrow a Dictator, With a Needle?
By Yohanna Magdalene Roa The power of textiles, prick them with the needle. Some time ago, during a talk about my textile art practice, another panelist, a scholar, asked me how I experienced the embroidery process in my studio. “Meditatively,” she suggested, imagining a space of retreat, silence, and contemplation. I responded that, while I […]
¿Podemos con la aguja derrocar al dictador?
Por Yohanna Magdalene Roa El poder del textil: pínchalos con la aguja. Hace algún tiempo, durante una ponencia sobre mi práctica artística textil, otra de las ponentes en la mesa, una académica, me preguntó cómo vivía el proceso de bordar en mi estudio, “meditando”, según ella, en un espacio de recogimiento, silencio y contemplación. Le […]
In conversation with Jill Downen
By D. Dominick Lombardi Nunu Hung, Char Schwall and Jill Downen, Photo credit: Catherine O’Donnell I first met Jill Downen at a dinner party commemorating their solo exhibition “Weightless,” at NuNu Fine Art on Broome Street in New York City. I had the good fortune of sitting next to Downen’s life partner, the visual artist, […]
A Four‑Voice Conversation and Many Questions:
Zasha Colah and Valentina Viviani (curators, 13th Berlin Biennale), María Pichot, and Kekena Corvalán We emphasize the significance of biennials professionally sustained by women who critically engage with issues shaping our artistic, curatorial, and political practices. With María Pichot, we shared experiences rooted in visual arts that are mobile, domestic, and vital. The Berlin Biennale’s […]
Women to the Front: A Living Archive of Feminist Creative Power
By Yohanna Magdalene Roa Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN MARINA VARGAS. Intra-Venus, 2021. Archival inkjet print. Courtesy of the Artist, Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell Presented at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts, a beacon of progressive curatorial practice in Indiana, this exhibition centers women’s aesthetic intelligence, radical visual storytelling, and […]
Healing Feminism Symposium – Viena, Austria
Special Coverage from the Healing Feminism Symposium, Reporting from Vienna | Our correspondent Lorena Tabares is covering the Healing Feminism symposium for INES_Magazina, a gathering curated by Elke Krasny that weaves together feminist practices beyond linear time and geographic borders. June 14 We anticipate this visual report will have a second installment in a more […]