"Stellweg was a pivotal figure in the Latin American art world, working mainly between Mexico City and New York. The founder and editor-in-chief of the bilingual art magazine Artes Visuales, she went on to become an early promoter of Latin American artists including Liliana Porter, Ana Mendieta and Luis Camnitzer through her New York galleries Stellweg-Seguy Gallery and Carla Stellweg Latin American & Contemporary Art."
"Born in 1942 in Bandung, Indonesia, Stellweg spent her early years in Japanese detention camps in Java with her mother, Toke de Longh, and older sister, Carin, before being reunited with her father Carl Stellweg at the end of the Second World War's Pacific Theatre. She spent her later childhood years in Sumatra, Singapore and the Netherlands. In 1958, her father's work as an agronomist for the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization brought the family to in Mexico."
""That process of dislocation helped Carla understand herself beyond concepts of geography or nationality," says Pablo León de la Barra, the curator of Latin American art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, a close friend and mentee."
Carla Stellweg was a gallerist and curator who worked mainly between Mexico City and New York and died at 83 in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She founded and served as editor-in-chief of the bilingual art magazine Artes Visuales and promoted artists such as Liliana Porter, Ana Mendieta and Luis Camnitzer through her New York galleries Stellweg-Seguy Gallery and Carla Stellweg Latin American & Contemporary Art. Born in 1942 in Bandung, Indonesia, she spent early years in Japanese detention camps and later lived in Sumatra, Singapore and the Netherlands before moving to Mexico in 1958. Stellweg worked with Fernando Gamboa, taught at the School of Visual Arts from 2005, and published an anthology, Ser y devenir, a month before her death. She is survived by her son, George Stellweg.
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