Andrés Aizicovich (Buenos Aires, 1985)
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Lives and works in Buenos Aires. He studied the Bachelor of Visual Arts from the IUNA (University Institute of Art) painting orientation in the chair of Carlos Bissolino and the Artists Program of the Torcuato Di Tella University in 2012. In 2017 he obtained the Braque prize for which he carried out an eight-year residency months at the Cité Internationale des arts in Paris. In 2019 she participates in the Artomi (New York, USA) and Parc Saint Léger (Pougues-les-eaux, France) residences. In 2022 he is selected for a one-year scholarship and residency at Hochschule für Bildende Künste-Braunschweig Projects, Germany. In 2023 he is invited as an artist in residence in Fountainheads, Miami, United States. He made individual and collective shows in galleries and museums such as the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, Emerson Dorsch Gallery (Miami, USA), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France), Galerie Papillon (Paris, France), Montagehalle HBK (Braunschweig, Germany), Vasari Gallery, Nora Fisch Gallery, OSDE Foundation, Klemm Foundation, SESC Sorocaba, (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Cuenca Museum of Modern Art (Ecuador) and La Zona/The Drawing Center (New York, USA) , among other.
Sergio Avello (Mar del Plata, 1964-2010)
Artist linked to abstraction and the use of color and light in his work. Music was a fundamental part in the development of his artistic career. He coordinated the Assembly Department of Fundación Proa for twelve years. He participated in the Kuitca Scholarship (1998) and in 2003 the Antorchas Foundation granted him a subsidy for the realization of the Bandera light work that participated in the Mercosul Biennial (Porto Alegre, Brazil). He held his first solo show "Argentine Decorative Art" (1989) at the Adriana Rosenberg Gallery. In 1992 he exhibited in the gallery of the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center. Among his solo exhibitions, the most outstanding are “Avello y la amigos de él” (Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center, 1992); "Digital art. Recent Woods” (Age of Communications, 1993); "Light paintings and boxes" (Van Riel Gallery, 1998); “Semana” (Dabbah Torrejón, 2002) and “S/T” (National Fund for the Arts, 2003); “Argentine Union of Patagonian Lambs”, Bodegas Chandon Award, donated to the Timoteo Navarro Provincial Museum of Fine Arts in Tucumán (arteBA, 2004); “Abstract Art (Today) = Fragility + Resilience” (Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires, 2005); "Mirage, Geo Art" (Palo Pintado, Salta, 2006); “In situ” (Dabbah Torrejón, 2006), and “Led-A” by Stella Maris. In Contemporary 17, and “Illuminaciones” (Malba, 2006).
Elena Dahn (Buenos Aires, 1980)
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Lives and works in Buenos Aires. She is a graduate of the Bachelor of Social Communication and studies visual arts at the UBA, and also in artist workshops and clinics. Between 2009 and 2010 she carried out a program for artists at the Di Tella University. In 2011 she obtained a scholarship from the Mnsen Foundation and completed a postgraduate program in the sculpture department of the RCA, London. She exhibits her work at the Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires, and at A Gentil Carioca, Brazil, among others.
Iara Freiberg (Argentina - Brasil, 1977)
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Argentina born in exile. She works between Buenos Aires and San Pablo. She completed a master's degree in Visual Poetics at the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP). She investigates physical places, their designs, uses, and relationships with the human body. Her work is characterized by the creation of interventions linked to architecture and relationships with the perception of space. Since 2002, she has been holding individual and collective national and international exhibitions, and developing special projects that question the idea of exhibition spaces, the conventions and hierarchies of the art and culture circuits, and has been interested in public space in recent years. .
Mauro Giaconi (Buenos Aires, 1977)
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Lives and works in Mexico City. He is a graduate of the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts with the title of National Professor of Painting. He received the first Philips Award for Young Talents, a mention from the jury and an honorable mention at the Salón Nacional de Dibujo. He was selected for the First and Second Arteba-Petrobrás Prizes, and was a 2010 fellow at the Center for Artistic Research (CIA). His work was exhibited at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, the Carrillo Gil Art Museum in Mexico and the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, among others. He was a teacher at the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts and at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (Cuernavaca, Mexico). His work is part of collections such as the Space Collection (USA); Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires (Argentina and Miami Art Museum (USA) among others.
Silvia Gurfein (Buenos Aires, 1959)
www.silviagurfein.com.ar
Lives and works in Buenos Aires. Before dedicating herself to the visual arts, she covered disciplines such as theater, dance and music. In 1999 she participated in the Tulio de Sagastizábal clinics. In 2010 she created El texto de la obra, a writing workshop for artists that she dictates in various institutions in Argentina and Brazil. Since 2022, she has taught a seminar in Untref's Master's Degree in Creative Writing. She was a curator of individual and group shows. In 2022 she edited and designed the exhibition devices and the online platform (Immersion-file archive) of all the archive material of the exhibition "Las olas del deseo" at the Casa Nacional del Bicentenario. She prefaced several exhibitions and her texts have been published in catalogues, magazines and books. Although her work unfolds in various supports and media, her investigations are frequently manifested in painting, her questions and her validity. Her work is found in multiple public and private collections in Argentina and abroad.
Alicia Herrero (Buenos Aires, 1954)
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Lives and works in Buenos Aires. She is a graduate of the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts with degrees in Painting and Engraving. Among her awards and scholarships received from her are the Konex 2022 Award (installation); National Award for Artistic Career 2021; First Prize Fortabat Foundation 2019; 108º SNAV Special Mention Sculpture 2019; Bicantenario Scholarship for Creation, FNA 2016; DordtYart, Dordrecht Scholarship Production 2015; First prize 103º SNAV – New Supports and Installations 2014; Nondriaan Funds for LiPac/Rojas/UBA, 2013; National Endowment for the Arts Scholarship for Group Projects 2012. Previously National Endowment for the Arts Creation Grant 1997; Antorchas Foundation Scholarship, Barracas Workshop, Buenos Aires 1997/6; Gunther Award (Honorable Mention) and National Museum of Fine Arts, 1997. She has participated in numerous local and international individual and collective exhibitions. Her works are part of the collections of Argentine and foreign public institutions.
La Chola Poblete (Mendoza, 1989
Lives and works in Buenos Aires. She studied Bachelor's and Professorships in Visual Arts at the National University of Cuyo. Since 2012, thanks to scholarships granted by the Kirchner Cultural Center and the National Endowment for the Arts, she has conducted workshops and clinics with Diana Aisenberg, Max Gómex Canle and Silvio Lang, among other artists. She participated in the Artists Program of the Torcuato Di Tella University (2018) and in the Marco Arte Foco Artists Program. In 2014, her work was awarded at the 11th edition of the Escenario Awards as "Best Young Art proposal". Among his individual exhibitions are "The Chola's Male Organ", at the Córdoba Art Market, and "SLAVE" at the Carlos Alonso de Mendoza Museum (2019). In 2021 he made "Heretic Fork" at Pasto Galería (Buenos Aires) and recently exhibited at the ARCO Fair in Madrid.
Analía Sabán (Bueno Aires, 1980)
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Lives and works in Los Angeles. She received a BFA in Visual Arts from Loyola University, New Orleans in 2001; an MFA in New Genres from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2005. His works are represented in the collections of the Hammer Museum at UCLA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Getty Research Institute, in The Angels; Blaffer Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; San Antonio Museum of Art, in San Antonio; Mead Museum of Art, in Amherst; at the Albright-Knox Gallery of Art and the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College in New York; Norton Museum of Art, Florida; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; National Gallery of Victoria, in Melbourne and at the Pompidou Center in Paris; among many others.
Mariela Scafati (Buenos Aires, 1973)
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Lives and works in Buenos Aires. She is a painter, screen printer and queer activist. Her work was exhibited at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art (in the context of the 11th Berlin Biennale); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Storefront for Art and Architecture, NY; Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires and Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires; Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires; Warsaw Museum of Modern Art; Collegium, Arevalo, Spain; and the Isla Flotante galleries in Buenos Aires and Travesía Cuatro, in Madrid, among others. In 2022 she participated in Documenta Fifteen as a member of Serigrafistas Queer and she was part of the “Giro Gráfico” exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofía and at MUAC-UNAM. She is co-founder of the Taller Popular de Serigrafía (TPS) with which she carried out the performance Neither true nor false; She was part of Belleza y Felicidad and created, together with Lola Granillo, Radio Electronica Artesanal. In 2020 she joined a collective that is building the Transfeminist Agroecological Garden in Buenos Aires. Her work is in the national and international permanent collections.
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Lives and works in Buenos Aires. Artist and filmmaker. In 2014 he attended the Artists and Curators Program at Torcuato Di Tella University. The following year he participates in the Skowhegan (USA) residence with the support of the Oxenford Foundation. In 2018 he graduated with a master's degree in art and video from Bard College (USA). He also participates in the Fondazione Antonio Ratti (Italy), Oxbelly (Greece) and Casa Plan (Chile) residences. His work was exhibited in different biennials, institutions and galleries in Argentina and abroad: Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, BIENALSUR, Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires, Kirchner Cultural Center, SlyZmud, Hessel Museum (USA), Wroclaw Biennial ( Poland), Blau Project (Brazil), Ausstellungsraum Klingental (Switzerland), among others. In 2017 he was selected to be part of the Braque Prize. His short films were screened at film festivals and in museums. In 2020 he obtained a scholarship from the Jeonju Film Festival (South Korea) to make his first feature film, soon to be released.
Juan Sorrentino (Chaco, 1978)
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Lives and works between Buenos Aires and Chaco. Sound artist, curator and teacher. He creates works and installations exploring sound language concepts in a poetic and collective imagination context. He has a degree in Composition from the National University of Córdoba (Argentina) and has a postgraduate degree in Technology and Video from Mecad-Aesdi in Barcelona. Director of Monte Residencia, in Chaco. He has participated in numerous individual and collective exhibitions such as Whitechapel Gallery (London), Bonniers Konsthall (Sweden), MAAT (Lisbon), Sinne (Finland), Argos (Belgium), MediaLab Prado (Madrid), Espacio Marzana (Bilbao), Círculo de Fine Arts (Madrid), Casa de América (Madrid), Sonic Spring (New York), Verge (California), Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), EAC (Uruguay), LUM (Peru), Macchina Gallery (Chile), Olga Museum Costa (Mexico), Fortabat (Bs. As.), CCK (Bs. As.) and Imago (Buenos Aires), among others. He is a teacher in the Bachelor of Electronic Arts at Untref and in the Bachelor of Combined Arts Fadycc UNNE, Chaco. He has received numerous awards and his works are part of museums and private collections.
Amparo Viau (Buenos Aires, 1991)
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He studied Visual Arts at the National University Institute of Art (Iuna) and Film Direction at the Center for Research and Experimentation in Video and Film (Cievyc). She took private classes with the artists Ignacio Sosa, Diego Perrota and Marcia Schwartz. In 2021 she was part of two group shows, "Full Feng Shui" at Munar Arte and another at the opening of the art magazine Lunfarde. In 2022 she inaugurated "The Siamese Moons Illuminated My Dream", her first solo show at Galería Grasa with text and curatorship by Elías Leiro; participated in "Le temps des cerises" a collective exhibition at the Alliance Française curated by Carlos Herrera, winner of the Obra de arteba 2022 Prize, awarded by a jury made up of Silvina Teller, Horacio Dabbah and Analía Solomonoff, organized and coordinated by Abel Guaglianone and Joaquin Rodriguez. In 2023, she produced her site-specific work ¿Qué alma disputará mi cuerpo?, curated by Luis Andrade, at LAR Local de Artes Recientes.
Dolores Zinny & Juan Maidagan (Rosario, 1990)
www.zinny-maidagan.com
They live and work in Germany. Visual artists born in Rosario Argentina, they work as a team and independently. Juan Maidagan (1957) studied Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Rosario and Dolores Zinny (1968) has a degree in Fine Arts from the National University of Rosario. They began collaborating in 1990, after founding MIMI, a space dedicated to the visual and performing arts, in which they performed their first performance/installation as a duo. They participated in the ISP independent study program, at the Whitney Museum in New York, between 1995 and 1996. That same year they obtained the International Artist Residency of Art OMI, New York; and the 35th Anniversary Scholarship of the National Endowment for the Arts of Argentina. His first solo exhibition in the United States was in 1999 with a project at the New Museum in New York City. They exhibited at Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires; CAC Gallery at the University of California, Irvine; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; The Showroom, London; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Espacio de Artistas, New York, and at the Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City. His works are part of museums and private collections.