Silvana Lagos.

Curatorial frameworks, strategic architecture, institutional delivery — at the scale at which culture is built

Practice across
Europe · North America · Latin America · Africa · Middle East · Asia
Profile

Silvana Lagos is a curator, writer, and cultural strategist working at the intersection of contemporary art, public-realm programming, and large-scale cultural infrastructure. Based between London and Stockholm — with an active practice across Riyadh and the Americas — she leads the curatorial concept, strategic architecture, and institutional delivery of projects that bridge artists, institutions, and the cities that hold them.

Her contribution is consistently authorial rather than executional: building the frameworks, strategic models, and institutional architecture that allow ambitious projects to be legible, defensible, and globally resonant. Recent and current work includes the Peruvian Pavilion at the 16th Gwangju Biennale, public-art and cultural-strategy commissions with the Royal Commission for Riyadh City, and the artistic direction of El Anatsui's inaugural Tate Modern Turbine Hall tour.

She sits on advisory boards and councils across the field — from The Watermill Center to Art and Theory Publishing — and contributes writing to CAP 74024 and Elephant Magazine.

Portrait of Silvana Lagos
Silvana Lagos. Photograph by Martin Kiessling, 2024.

Memberships & affiliations.

The boards, councils, and publications the practice contributes to — beyond the projects themselves.
Role Organisation Country
Advisory CouncilThe Watermill CenterUS
Advisory BoardArt and Theory PublishingSE
Curatorial Advisory BoardSalón ACME 2025MX
Curatorial Advisory BoardNoor Riyadh 2024KSA
MemberAWITAUK
Young PatronTateUK
ContributorCAP 74024IT
ContributorElephant MagazineUK