In 1979, two years after her third move, Tania Bruguera decided to return to Cuba.
20 Facts About Tania Bruguera
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Tania Bruguera is the founder and director of Catedra Arte de Conducta, the first performance studies program in Latin America, which is hosted by Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana.
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In 2021 Tania Bruguera departed Cuba in exchange for the government to free activists imprisoned in that year after she got the job offer at Harvard University.
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In 2002 Tania Bruguera founded the Catedra Arte de Conducta in Havana to provide a space for the training of alternative art studies in contemporary Cuban society.
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Additionally, the Catedra itself can be understood as an artwork in the manner of institutional critique, social practice, or parasitism, with Tania Bruguera re-formulating the institutional frameworks of the Cuban national art school, the Havana Bienal, and the money- and influence-fueled international art circuit to unintended purposes.
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In 2011, Tania Bruguera began working on Immigrant Movement International, a multi-part artwork expected to continue through 2015.
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Tania Bruguera began in 2011 by spending a year living in a small apartment in Corona, Queens, with five immigrants and their children.
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Tania Bruguera was interested in experiencing some problems immigrants without residency papers encountered trying to survive on low pay and without health insurance.
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The project, funded by the Queens Museum of Art and a nonprofit arts group called Creative Time, involved opening a storefront in New York where Tania Bruguera wanted to hold arts workshops for immigrants, but found that most of the people who came to the store were interested in learning English or help finding employment or legal aid.
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Tania Bruguera has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including Documenta 11, Documenta fifteen, the Bienal Iberoamericana in Lima, Peru, the Istanbul Biennial, the Shanghai Biennale, and the Gwangju Biennale in Gwangju, Korea.
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Tania Bruguera's work is in the permanent collections of many institutions around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art and Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana.
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Tania Bruguera was arrested and released three times in the time frame of December 2014 through January 2015 for having organized a public performance in La Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion.
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In December 2015, Tania Bruguera announced that she may still return to Cuba.
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Tania Bruguera said that during the time of her detention she only agreed to leave under two conditions: that dissidents who were arrested after attending her aborted performance in Revolution Square be released; and that the Cuban government give her a signed and stamped letter guaranteeing that she could return to Cuba.
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In October 2017, Tania Bruguera announced that she would be running for "President of Cuba", when the current President Raul Castro steps down.
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Tania Bruguera has stated that the satirical performance is an act to expose the fact of Cuba being a one party state that is not elected by the people.
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Tania Bruguera is hoping to enact change with bringing to light this reality, removing the culture of fear.
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Tania Bruguera was arrested in December 2018 in advance of a planned protest against a Cuban law that would require artists to apply for government licenses.
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On December 6,2018, Tania Bruguera was released from jail after three days along with a dozen other artists and activists for organizing sit-in protests against Decree 349.
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In October 2020, Tania Bruguera denounced feeling extreme physical discomfort due to a high pitched sound that she heard in her own home in Havana.