Artists: Felipe Arturo, Adrián S. Bará, Alberto Borea, Radamés “Juni” Figueroa, Derek Franklin, Ximena Garrido- Lecca, Leor Grady, José Carlos Martinat, PS3* and Slobodan Stosic

DIVAGATION
Curated by Meyken Barreto, Carlos Garcia-Montero, Cecilia Jurado and ghostwriter.
May 6, 2016- May 30, 2016
Y Gallery 
New York, NY

The show brings together a group of international artists whose practice is characterized by a special sensitivity towards the aesthetic and symbolic potential of everyday materials and objects. Their approach to artistic creation is strongly informed by the context in which their work is produced and by the background from which they come. With different points of departure, from performative to space- based concepts, they investigate and generate narratives about contemporaneity. From Mexico, Peru, USA, Israel, Spain and Serbia, the artists gathered here address different topics from social or politics to contemplative or physics, but they are all joined by a peculiar way to transform their reality in poetic ways.

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Artists: Adrián Balseca, Adrian Paci, Adriana Escobar, Alexandra McCormick, Allan Sekula and Noël Burch, Amar Kanwar, Ana Patricia Palacios, Annaleen Louwes, Anri Sala, Antonio Caro, Antonio Paucar, Arquitectura Expandida and Caldo de Cultivo, Camila Botero, Camilo Cantor, Camilo Restrepo, Carlos Motta, Clara Ianni and Debora da Silva, Claudio Perna, Colectivo Nomanada, Cráter Invertido, Dan Perjovschi, Daniela Ortiz, Elena Vargas Tisnés, Élkin Calderón Guevara, Emilia Azcárate, Fernando Arias, Giuseppe Campuzano, Gülsün Karamustafa, Halil Altindere, Jordi Colomer, Jorge Alonso Zapata, Jorge Andrés Marín, José Alejandro Restrepo, Juan Javier Salazar, Juan Obando, Libia Posada, Liliana Angulo, Magdalena Fernández, Mapa Teatro, María Buenaventura, Michael Soi, Miguel Ángel Rojas, Mónica Mayer, Mujeres Creando, Myriam Lefkowitz, Natalia Giraldo Giraldo, Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg, Nathaly Rubio, Núria Güell, Paromita Vohra, Phil Collins, Santiago Vélez, Sislej Xhafa, Tercerunquinto, Todo por la Praxis, Tricilab, William Engelen, Wilson Díaz, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Yoel Díaz Vázquez.

MDE 15 Medellín
Curated by Nydia Gutiérrez, Tony Evanko, Fernando Escobar, Sharon Lerner, Edi Muka.
October 2015 – March 2016
Museo de Antioquia
Medellín, Colombia

The theme of Local Stories/Global Practices has been conceived to create a space of reflection and engagement with the recent transformation of Medellín since the turn of the millennium. Medellín, considered to be a progressive Latin American city that has implemented innovative programs to stimulate social and urban development, is part of a larger picture. While the results of these processes are real and tangible, the dynamics they have generated are particularly complex from an ethical standpoint. In order to understand their implications we propose to focus on these processes of change and explore them through commissioned projects, works of artists and other socially oriented initiatives, sometimes inserted in spaces beyond the artistic field.

MDE15 inserts itself in the social fabric of the city while sharing stories, experiences and practices from elsewhere in the world. Transformative changes can elicit psychological, physical and social responses that range from issues of trust and security to economic well-being. The stories that result from observations and from the direct experiences of people in communities, often address the coping mechanisms that are required to survive and flourish amid those changes, which often occur at a pace that outstrips the citizens and society’s ability to assimilate them. MDE15 aims at focusing on the unsaid and the less visible aspects of the everyday, such as memory, the past, the persistence of structural problems, but also the resilience of life in the city. It also relies on the potential of art to harness the capacity of individual and collective imagination to re-signify complex situations.

It is in this context and in the context of a critical standpoint in which the definition of artistic practice is constantly being challenged, that the MDE15 unfolds.

Topics

1. Violence, conflict and memory
2. Local stories in a global context
3. Exertion of power over the body
4. The institutional teasing
5. Resilient city: dreams, desires and possibilities

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Artist: Ximena Garrido-Lecca

Solo show
November 5 – December 26, 2015
Casado Santapau Gallery
Madrid, Spain

Solo show by Ximena Garrido-Lecca.

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Artists: Pablo Accinelli, Edgardo Aragón, Juan Araujo, Felipe Arturo, Nicolás Bacal, Milena Bonilla, Paloma Bosquê, Pia Camil, Bevenuto Chavajay, Marcelo Cidade, Donna Conlon & Jonathan Harker, Nicolás Consuegra, Minerva Cuevas, Elena Damiani, Mariana Castillo Deball, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Federico Herrero, Voluspa Jarpa, Runo Lagomarsino, Adriana Lara, Engel Leonardo, Valentina Liernur, Mateo López, Renata Lucas, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Nicolás Paris, Amalia Pica, Pablo Rasgado, Pedro Reyes, Adrián Villar Rojas, Gabriel Sierra, Clarissa Tossin, Carla Zaccagnini.

United States of Latin America
Curated by Jens Hoffmann and Pablo León de la Barra
September 18, 2015 – January 3, 2016
Museum of Contemporary Art
Detroit, MI, USA

The exhibition United States of Latin America brings together more than thirty emerging artists from Latin America, many of whom will be exhibiting in the United States for the first time.

The show is based on an ongoing conversation between two curators, Jens Hoffmann and Pablo León de la Barra, who for a number of years have exchanged research and information about artists, artworks, and the overall development of the art world from Mexico to Argentina and the many countries in between. The exhibition is an extension of this dialogue into the galleries of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit via artworks suggested in dialogue format.

United States of Latin America features a wide range of works in a variety of mediums, for instance a series of photographs about housing in Havana, a film about the effects of gang violence in Mexico, sculptures reflecting on the involvement of the CIA in Latin American dictatorships, drawings of historical monuments from the future, a floor map about the selling of Brazilian rubber to the United States, boulders from a Colombian river that have been turned into flip-flops, and paintings about the interplay of modernist houses, tropical vegetation, and utopian architecture. The individual artworks touch upon themes such as geography, history, urbanism, memory, colonialism, architecture, war, modernism, social inequality, regionalism, and power. Given how Latin America’s realities oscillate between the colonial and the contemporary, between severe economic hardships and enormous financial expansions, between flourishing democracies and suppressive dictatorships, and between great progress and immense regression, the exhibition presents an intentionally fragmented survey, a deliberately disjointed overview, of the region and the art being made there. It allows the viewer a glimpse into a reality that may seem geographically near, but is in many ways far away and unfamiliar.

The curators invited a number of writers and curators from throughout Latin America to contribute to a glossary of terms that articulate the region’s historical landscape and conceptual syntax. This glossary will be published in the exhibition catalogue along with a conversation between the curators, texts on all of the artists, images of the exhibited artworks, and a roundtable discussion featuring a number of curators based in Latin America.

Developed in collaboration with Kadist Art Foundation, United States of Latin America is curated by Jens Hoffmann, MOCAD senior curator at large, and Pablo León de la Barra, guest curator. A range of public programs and educational activities will run concurrently with the exhibition, including a public conversation with the curators, lectures by some of the participating artists, film screenings, and performances.

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Selected Biographical Information

Education / Training

• 2003-2004: MA Fine Arts,  Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins, London, UK.
• 2001-2002: Post-Graduate Course Fine Arts, Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins, London, UK.
• 1997-2001: BA Fine Arts, Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru.

Prizes / Fellowships

• 2014: Shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine.
• 2014: Honorific Mention Bienal de Cuenca, Bienal de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador.

Solo Exhibitions

• 2015: “Arquitectura del humo”, 80m2 Livia Benavides, Lima, Peru.
• 2014: “Los Suelos”, MATE, Lima, Peru.
• 2013: “Los Suelos”, Galeria Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain.
• 2012: “VAMOS”, MIMA, Middlesbrough, UK.
• 2012: “Paisaje Antrópico”, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK.
• 2011: “El Porvenir”, Mimmo Scognamiglio Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy.
• 2010: “The Followers”, Civic Room, London, UK.

Group Exhibitions

• 2014: “Future Generation Art Prize”, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine.
• 2014: “Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento”, BIM, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 2014: “Bienal de Cartagena de Indias“, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
• 2014: “The 2nd CAFAM Biennale”, The Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum  – CAFAM, Beijing, China.
• 2014: “Ir para Volver”, Bienal de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador.
• 2013: “ICASTICA “, International Biennale of Arrezzo, Arezzo, Italy.
• 2013: “Paraíso en Blanco”, 80m2 Livia Benavides, Lima, Peru.
• 2013: “LARA (Latin American Roaming Art)”, NC ARTE, Bogota, Colombia.
• 2012: “Remesas: flujos simbólicos/ movilidades de capital”, Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Peru.
• 2011: “Newspeak: British Art Now”, The Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
• 2010: “Identity Theft”, Mimmo Scognamiglio Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy.
• 2010: “Newspeak: British Art Now”, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.

Collections

• MALI Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima, Peru.
• PAAM Perez Art Museum, Miami, USA.
• MIMA Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK.
• Kadist Foundation, San Francisco , USA.
• MATE Museo Mario Testino, Lima, Peru.

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