Larisa Zmud

Zmud, Larisa
Larisa Zmud, Independent Curator, Member of Belleza y Felicidad Fiorito, and Director of Sin Destino Aparente, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Larisa Zmud (b. 1985) is a curator and critical thinker from Argentina, focusing on gender equality and social justice through food. She holds a BA in Art Curating from the National University of the Arts (2018), and a master’s in politics and Gender Studies at Tres de Febrero University (2022).

From 2011-2018, she ran her own gallery: SlyZmud, where more than 40 exhibitions of young contemporary Argentine artists – like Mercedes Azpilicueta, Jill Mulleady, Jimena Croceri, among others – took place. From 2014-2018, she was board and founder member of MERIDIANO, Argentine Chamber of Contemporary Art Galleries.

During 2017, Zmud created Sin Destino Aparente: reading and critical thinking groups with gender perspective. Since then, through groups – focused on academic, art and activism – Zmud organizes curatorial research projects and weekly group sessions.

Between 2020-2021, she was part of the National Directorate of Cultural Policies for Equality of the Argentinean Ministry of Women, Gender, and Diversities.

Larisa is part of the artistic and feminist collective Belleza y Felicidad Fiorito where she conducts cooking classes and coordinates the Comedor Gourmet, an artistic and gastronomic space designed to redefine nutrition as nourishment, a way of thinking about politics of bodies and desire. It's not just about cooking delicious food in a villa in Province of Buenos Aires, but enabling possibilities of choice to, through them, create pleasant spaces that promote the right to decide.

Larisa currently coordinates and curates the Mapa Contemporáneo de Arte Argentino en Construcción, created within the framework of the 55th CIMAM 2023 Annual Conference. She was resident of the 2024 program of KADIST Collection in Paris, which started a project dialogue with Belleza y Felicidad Fiorito.

Through exhibitions, public lectures, curatorial projects, and creation of networks between agents of international art world, she tries to create new methodologies of access to knowledge.

Larisa Zmud, Independent Curator, Member of Belleza y Felicidad Fiorito, and Director of Sin Destino Aparente, Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been awarded by the Getty Foundation, Los Angeles.