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Latitudes’ 20th anniversary and updated Portfolio


To mark Latitudes’ 20th anniversary this April 2025, we have refreshed the design of our Portfolio. The 10th edition is available in desktop, mobile, and print formats.

Looking back, our first anniversary in April 2006 was a whirlwind. We were deep in the editorial process of LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook (published in December 2006), an anthology co-edited by the Royal Society of Arts and Arts Council England. Amid that hectic process, we forgot to commemorate.

“LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook” was launched on December 12, 2006, on the occasion of the RSA-organised conference “No Way Back” at the London School of Economics and Political Science in London.


Above: (Foreground) Artists Gustav Metzger and Tue Greenfort and (background) Tomás Saraceno with Jeff McMillan and Cornelia Parker. 

Five years later, in 2010, we marked the occasion with our 22nd newsletter – our first featuring a birthday candle. At the time, we were gearing up for a road trip from Barcelona to London to take part in another milestone: Tate Modern's 10th AnniversaryTo mark the occasion, artist Maurizio Cattelan and curators Cecilia Alemani and Massimiliano Gioni organised the second edition of NO SOUL FOR SALE - A Festival of Independents, which occupied Tate's Turbine Hall for a long weekend in mid-May 2010. Our journey was itself an artwork—Martí Anson, in his role as artist-cum-chauffeur, drove us to London and back as part of his project Mataró Chauffeur Service, ensuring we arrived in style (or rather truly tired) for the celebration.

Martí Anson's “Mataró Chauffeur Service” car on the bridge in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. Photos: Tom Medwell / Courtesy NSFS.



For our 10th anniversary in 2015, we undertook our first major website revamp and also produced a limited edition of four beautifully designed tote bags (now sold out). The complete set was soon after featured in the exhibition “A short history of the art book bag (and the things that go in them)” (24 August–24 October 2015) at the Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong, curated by Ingrid Chu, Curator of Public Programmes. 

In 2018, one of the totes—Lawrence Weiner's THE CREST OF A WAVE—was acquired by Tate Archive and presented at The McManus Museum and Galleries in Dundee, Scotland (2 November 2018–17 February 2019).


10th anniversary totes designs by Lawrence Weiner, Haegue Yang, Ignasi Aballí and Mariana Castillo Deball. Silkscreened in Barcelona. 

April 2020 marked 15 years of our curatorial practice. Amid a strict lockdown, celebrating was far from our minds. Instead, we went into “cave mode” and used the time to rebuild our website—a surprisingly productive endeavour. Many coffees and moons later, when the redesign was finally complete and we looked up from our screens, we still had weeks of lockdown ahead of us.

The 2020 redesign is still mostly up today, with a few updates, such as the font.


We can't believe two decades have flown by since we decided to give it a go as freelancers. This April 2025 finds us recovering from two major exhibitions that opened this past February– two much-anticipated solo exhibitions in Madrid. The first is the survey of Mexican-born, Bilbao-based artist Jorge Satorre at the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Móstoles. The second is also a survey, featuring the work of Barcelona-based artist Laia Estruch, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Both exhibitions are accompanied by the artists’ first monographs, covering works created from 2011 to the present. Estruch’s monograph will be available later in Spring, while Satorre’s, co-published by Museo CA2M and Caniche Editorial, is already available for purchase online (€30, including shipping within Spain) here and from Museo CA2M front desk.

Pages of “Rio [River]” (2025) copublished by Museo CA2M and Caniche Editorial. Photos: Latitudes.

Mock-up of the Spanish edition of “Laia Estruch. Hello Everyone” published by the Museo Reina Sofía. Available from Spring 2025.

Speaking of books, we’re pleased to announce that our publications are now more widely accessible. The Library and Documentation Centre of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain) has been added to the list of institutions where a complete (or nearly complete) collection of Latitudes publications is available for public reference.


RELATED CONTENT:

  • Latitudes’ 15th anniversary and rebuilt and redesigned website, 2 May 2020
  • Reduce Art Flights website refreshed, 5 February 2020
  • Latitudes' redesigned portfolio – projects since 2005 (20 February 2019)
  • Lawrence Weiner tote bag and sugar sachets at the McManus Museum and Galleries in Dundee (26 November 2018)
  • Lawrence Weiner's THE CREST OF A WAVE tote bag in the Tate Archive and exhibited at The McManus Museum and Galleries, Dundee, 26 October 2018
  • Newsletter #22 – April 2010, 8 April 2010
  • Latitudes' 4th anniversary, 2 April 2009
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2020 in 11 monthly Cover Stories

Since Spring 2015, Latitudes has published a monthly cover story on its homepage www.lttds.org featuring past, present or forthcoming projects, as well as ongoing research, texts, artworks, exhibitions, films, objects or travel related to our curatorial practice. Here's how 2020 looked like on our homepage.

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Latitudes' re-designed website now online!


Our website is finally up and running! Take a look at www.lttds.org

After months of re-editing, digging floppy disks and analogue archives, we're proud (and relieved!) to launch our newly designed website, same address as always: http://www.lttds.org




We have improved several things. Our home page now features a "cover story", a monthly focus on an artwork, artist, book, site or trip we've experienced in our recent past, accompanied by a short text. Our first cover story centers on Wilfredo Prieto's work "Grease, Soap, Banana" presented in 2007 in the group show "Extraordinary Rendition".
  
Below this section we highlight three recent projects which are refreshed with each visit.

Yes! Each page is more tablet and mobile-friendly, yet has an even wider format for your desktop.


Each of our project pages includes a sliding photo gallery complementing our flickr sets, and has clearer access to our social media networks – such as our twitter or facebook.

At the end of each project's text, we've added "Related Content": an expandable section linking to our blog posts.
The sidebar includes details of the locations, publication (if applicable) and project supporters; a calendar of events and biography of the artist (for solo shows).

Our project page now includes tags enabling you to dynamically filter our projects by 'year', 'exhibition', 'research', 'public realm', 'with publication', etc.
From here you can also check our Index, our Publications or download the pdf 'Projects Dossier' detailing a selection of our projects.

We have revised the 'About' page and placed an accordion listing our "Lectures", "Teaching", "Awards & Affiliations", "Juries", "Residencies", "Bibliography/Press" and "Research and Field Trips".

And last, but certainly not least, we continue to report from our blog on the development of our projects as well as on our field trips, news, shows, or books worth discussing.





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Latitudes' projects timeline to date (2005–ongoing)


We've updated Latitudes' timeline (2005–ongoing) with some of the 2011 projects.
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