Valeria Posada Villada

Valeria Posada Villada is a historian and curator specializing in photography and the arts of Abya Yala (the Americas). She is currently Curator of Photography at the Wereldmuseum in the Netherlands.

Bio

Her career includes roles such as Curator of Public Practices at Foam and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Museum of Colombia, where she supported both emerging and established artists through exhibitions and public programs. Themes close to her heart (apart from photography) include memory, conflict, symbolic restitution, performance, and dance. She has served as a jury member and portfolio reviewer for platforms and awards including the SO DuPho Award, Breda Photo, Arles Photo Folio Review, and Hamburg Portfolio Review.

Publications

2026 – On the Reclamation of Photography: Visual Histories of the Mapuche Diaspora in Wereldmuseum Leiden [Under Review]
2025 – Contractarbeiders in de foto’s van Julius Muller, Nederlands Foto Genootschap Magazine [Under Review]
2025 – Test of Time: N. Keasberry’s Stereographs of Coca Plantations in Indonesia, FOAM Magazine #67 [August]
2025 – Overwritten Memories: The Representation of Sexual Violence in the Arts and Memory Space Fragmentos, in The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Gender
2024 – Photobook Review: Padre by Marisol Méndez, FOAM Magazine #65 Talent
2023 – Photocollage as Brushstrokes: Yang Yongliang at the Wereldmuseum, Nederlands Foto Genootschap Magazine #110
2023 – My Father’s Garden. Photographs by Luis Carlos Tovar, LensCulture
2023 – Patria. On Olenka Carrasco, LensCulture
2022 – Photobook Review: Recetario de la memoria by Zahara Luccini, FOAM Magazine #63
2022 – Changing the Representation of War: Former Combatants and the Redrawing of Colombia's Armed Conflict Narrative, Leicester Museological Review, Issue 26
2022 – Inscribed in the Body: Sexuality, Race and the Environment in Caribbean Performance Art, National Museum of Colombia: Curatorial Notebooks #19
2021 – Forms of the Instant: The Photography of Abdú Eljaiek, National Museum of Colombia: Curatorial Notebooks #18
2020 – Revealed Histories: The Guerrilla Voice in Desenterrando Memorias, National Museum of Colombia: Curatorial Notebooks #17
2018 – When Memories Become Duty: The Cases of Museo Casa de la Memoria (Medellín) and ESMA (Buenos Aires). University of Amsterdam: Master’s Thesis
2012 – Madres Coraje, 070 Magazine
2011 – The Girl in the Striped Shirt, 070 Magazine