Hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Aline Hernández del Rosal is the Artistic Director of Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Following a transition in directorship and guided by a commitment to care for the institutions that nurture life, she stepped into this role alongside Executive Director Marianna Takou in 2023, supporting Casco’s continuity and recomposition through an ecosystem-centered approach. Under this new artistic leadership, Casco remains dedicated to prefiguring anti-capitalist ways of living together by engaging with artistic practice, the commons, and the ongoing reorganization of the institution itself.

Hernández’s work spans arts organizing, creative writing, teaching, and research, rooted in the pursuit of alternative economies of collectivity. Previously, she served as Curatorial Coordinator at the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) in Mexico (2012–2015), where she curated the exhibitions Pola Weiss: The T.V. Sees You (2014) and I Know Your Father Doesn’t Understand My Molten Language (2014), and co-organized Maria Thereza Alves: The Return of the Lake (2014), Harun Farocki: Vision. Production. Oppression (2014), and Tlacolulokos: The South Never Dies (2014), among others. She has also held positions at the 9th European Biennial of Contemporary Art in Genk, Belgium, and at the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City. Her writing has been presented internationally and published by museums and journals such as Contemporary Theatre Review, TEOR/ética, Parkett, The New Inquiry, Das Superpaper, and the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo. She has taught and lectured at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, the Sandberg Instituut, KASK School of Arts, Leiden University, the University of St Andrews, and the Zurich University of the Arts. Hernández is currently completing a PhD in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews. She is a member of the translocal ecosystems of Arts Collaboratory and lumbung.

Using Casco Art Institute’s ongoing inquiry into what an institution of the commons might be as a point of departure, where learning and practicing the commons is oriented toward cultivating an ecosystem, this talk will explore how reimagining art and exhibition-making through the ethics and values of commoning can sustain a collective process of institutional renewal and foster enduring structures of relation, mutual growth, and support—essentially, a sustainable ecosystem of care.

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