Gabriela Acha

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Provisory documentation performance Mobile Exhibition Space at Konvooi Festival Bruges Belgium. August 2021.

KONVOOI FESTIVAL - BRUGGE BELGIUM, 2021
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Performance Partially Conceivable in the frame of the exhibition Amethyst. at Pulchri Studio, The Hague, Netherlands. April 2021.

Exhibition Amethyst - Pulchri Studio, 2021
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Documentation of the performance developed by the artist Gabriela Acha at Castello D'Albertis, the Museum of the world cultures, in Genova, Italy during October 2021 in the frame of Code War Festival, curated by Mixta. Video: Federico Ghillino. Song: Joan Manuel Serrat. This participation was possible thanks to the support of Stroom Den Haag.

PERFORMANCE AT MUSEUM OF THE WORLD CULTURES, 2021
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Amethyst. Exhibition and performances presented in Pulchri Studio. April 2021.

Amethyst - Pulchri Studio , 2021
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Installation Bruja at the Spring Saloon of Pulchri Studio. March 2021.

Installation BRUJA at Spring Saloon, 2021
Writing and sculpture., 20cm x 150cm x 200 xmm
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Installation presented at the exhibition The Roaring 20's in Pulchri Studio. September 2021.

Installation at Exhibition The Roaring 20's, 2021
Sculpture. , 250cm x 150cm x 20cm
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Documentation of one of the pieces presented at Pulchri Studio The Hague during the exhibition of New Members. May 2021.

Exhibition new members Pulchri., 2021
Drawing. Graphite on paper., 80cm x 110cm
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Installation presented at Museo Genaro Perez in Cordoba Argentina in the frame of the exhibition "Recomienzo continuo". September 2021.

S/T , 2021
Sculpture and writing., 180cm x 150cm x50cm
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Performance Mobile Exhibition Space at Pulchri Studio Studio in the frame of the Museum Night The Hague. Featuring the work of Farah Rahman. Performing Farah Rahman. 9th of October 2021

Performance Museum Night The Hague, 2021
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Performance and exhibition in the frame of the art fair Art The Hague during October 2021. Stand Pulchri Studio.

Performance Partially Conceivable, 2021
Performance/Sculptures, Variable
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MOBILE EXHIBITION SPACE - October 2020 Villa Romana, Florence, Italy. In the frame of MAI. Museo Antropologico Immaginario curated by Valeria D'Ambrosio with the participation of Marcela Moraga and Gian Piero Frascinelli. Through the performance, I explored the possibility of a dialogic, active, and mobile museum. The Mobile exhibition space is feminist and decolonial. It criticizes the western museum as a colonial white and patriarchal institution. In this case, together with Master students of the University of Anthropology of Florence, we reflected on the Museums of Anthropology building up a space-action of ephemeral existence where the presented pieces belong to live communities. We connected the pieces with the current context and problematics of the ethnic groups of precedence of the objects (Aymara, Guaraní, and Mapuche, from South America), and the fight for their rights. We also reflected on how subaltern practices resist westernization. The exhibited pieces are crafts acquired by Oretta and Gian Piero Frascinelli, acquired between 1969 and 1973 in South America. Performers: Rita Duina, Simona Dominici, Sara Bensi, Simona Sora, Serena Calaresu, Giada Cerbara and Caterina Fioravanti. Video: Giulia Lenzi.

MOBILE EXHIBITION SPACE, 2020
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Performance developed in Caen France, in the frame of Interstice Fetsival.

Partially concevable, 2019
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Still of the videoperformance Nobody is going to give up, presented in the exhibition Killing Horizons, at Quartair, The Hague.

Nobody is going to give up, 2019
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Documentation of the performance A museum or two developed in E.A.C. Uruguay.

A museum or two, 2018
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Documentation of the performance A museum or two developed in Montevideo, Uurugay, in cooperation with the National Museum of Natural History and the Space of Contemporary Art.

A museum or two, 2018
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Plants with resine and chains. Currently in Atilio Buglioti Collection.

Acantos, 2018
Sculpture, 60x15x100cm
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Installation of spers made with resine and chains. This objects where exhibited at 220cc, Cordoba, Argentina in the installation To se in the darkness, Curated by Andrea Ruiz.

Spears, 2018
Sculpture, 170x10x100cm
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Documentation of R.A.R.O. Residency.

R.A.R.O. Residency, 2017
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Artwork selected to participate of the National Saloon called Salón de Mayo, from Argentina.

Mobile exhibitional space, 2017
Sculpture, 40x20x45cm
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Installative drawing representing a stone. Boero Mansion, Buenos Aires, Argentina. R.A.R.O. Residency.

Stone Mountain, 2016
Scientific drawing, 250x40x300cm
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Scientific illustration of a minerall, presented between two glasses. Cordoba, Argentina, La sala que habito, Resindecy.

Agatha, 2016
Drawing and sculpture, 180x3x150
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Artwork that received the 3rd Prize in the Patio Olmos Sculpture Contest 2015.

Taxidermy, Vegetalia, 2015
Sculpture, 50 x 50 x 60cm
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Resine with seads of a palm.

Livistona chinensis, 2015
Sculpture, 80x30x25cm
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Replica of a backpack to carry wood from the XVIII century.

Backpack for wood, 2015
Carpentry, 45x 45x75cm

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What and why should be remembered?

For the past 15 years, I have been collecting minerals, antiques, and fossils. These pieces are the starting point of my process. I have reflected on the methodologies belonging to Sciences and Art to approach nature as an object of study. I am part of an Argentinean group of artists, researchers and scientific illustrators called Expedición. Together we work connecting Art and Natural Sciences. My primary mode of production is sculpture, deriving in performance and installation. This also involves a process of documentation that relies on photography, drawing, video, 3d modeling, and writing. I have worked in cooperation with different institutions such as the National Museums of Natural History from Uruguay and Chile, the National Academy of Science of Cordoba, Argentina, and the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of Florence, Italy. Lately, I have been interested in the notion of the museum, as a colonial institution where discourse is built. I developed a process focused on the concepts of herstory and decolonial thinking.

Websites

Personal webpage

www.achagabriela.com

Social media

www.facebook.com/achagabriela

www.instagram.com/achagabriela/

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Member of Artists’ Initiative/Collective/Incubator

Expedicion

Member of a platform, digital or otherwise

Pulchri Studio

Stroom

De Besturing

Curriculum vitae

Education

2021 - 2021

Course Decolononizing curatorial and artistic practices Node Center - Berlin, Germany
2018 - 2020

ArtScience Master. Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten
2017 - 2017

P.A.C. Program of Contemporary Art. Gachi Prieto Art Gallery
2017 - 2017

Seminar for latin american artists with the curator Andrés Labake E.A.C. Space of Contemporary Art. Uruguay
2016 - 2016

Postgraduate course Memory and Museums in Contemporary Art universidad nacional de cordoba
2015 - 2015

Workshop of Production and reflection about Visual Arts. National Fund of Arts Argentina
2008 - 2014

Bachelor degree in Visual Arts with concentration in Sclupture. The program is 6 years long. universidad nacional de cordoba diploma

exhibitions

2021

Art The Hague Art Fair Fokker Terminal The Hague, Netherlands Participation of the Art Fair Art The Hague in the Stand of Pulchri Studio. October 2021. artthehague.nl/ Group
2021

Performance Mobile Exhibition Space Pulchri Studio The Hague, Netherlands Performance Mobile exhibition space featuring the work of Farah Rahman. museumnachtdenhaag.nl/deelnemers/pulchri-studio/ Duo
2021

It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story Museum of the World Cultures. Castello D'Albertis. Genova, Italy Performance and installation in the frame of Code War Festival. linktr.ee/cdwr Group
2021

KONVOOI FESTIVAL HET ENTREPOT BRUGES, Belgium Contemporary Arts Festival in Bruges, Belgium where I participated with the performance Mobile Exhibition Space. konvooifestival.be/gabriela-acha/ Solo
2021

The Roaring Twenties Pulchri Studio The Hague, Netherlands The 1920s were a period of major changes in many areas. In the period between the two world wars, crises were accompanied by reconstruction and increasing (urban) prosperity. The roaring (or flashy) twenties were characterized by lightning-fast developments in material, political and moral areas; the rise of mass culture, consumerism, jazz music and the glitz and glamor of Hollywood. Or what about the emancipation of women and art movements such as Dada, Surrealism, Expressionism and Art Deco. Or races and record attempts such as Charles Lindbergh's first solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927. The roaring twenties have also been described as a period of freedom and the beginning of the 'modern age'. Now, mid-2021, the end of the corona time is in sight. People have been limited in their activities for a year and a half and have saved tens of billions extra. When restrictions are lifted, there may be another period of bubbling like 100 years ago. We want to enjoy again, especially now that we know what it's like to be in a lockdown. The money will start rolling again. Hopefully there will be years of economic growth again, but more controlled than before the corona crisis. Life will be different in the coming years. A different governance style, greater emphasis on the environment and sustainability, greater understanding of inclusiveness, equality and mutual responsibility. And who knows, maybe we'll get a modern-day Charles Lindbergh going to Mars, for example. In any case, let's hope that art and culture will finally get the support and attention they deserve again. www.pulchri.nl/nl/tentoonstellingen/the-roaring-twenties/ Group
2021

Exhibition of New Members Pulchri Studio The Hague, Netherlands Group exhibition of new members of Pulchri's platform. en.achagabriela.com/2021?lightbox=dataItem-kq83b97u Group
2021

Recomienzo Continuo Museum Genaro Perez Cordoba\, Argentina Group Exhibition "Recomienzo continuo" curated by Indira Montoya and Luis García in Museo Genaro Perez, Cordoba, Argentina. September 2021. museogenaroperez.wordpress.com/?fbclid=IwAR3Kqh9x3BMy90rmR60DUEJfqYPHW7XKyqOkvVHlZ-frvtO5MLUWG4zSR18 Group
2021

Spring Saloon Pulchri Studio The Hague, Netherlands Group Exhibition. www.pulchri.nl/nl/tentoonstellingen/voorjaarssalon-jacob-hartog-prijs-2021/ Group
2020

n Imaginary Anthropological Museum Villa Romana Florence, France MOBILE EXHIBITION SPACE - October 2020 Villa Romana, Florence, Italy. In the frame of MAI. Museo Antropologico Immaginario curated by Valeria D'Ambrosio with the participation of Marcela Moraga and Gian Piero Frascinelli. Through the performance I explored the possibility of a dialogic, active and mobile museum. The Mobile exhibition space is feminist and decolonial. It criticizes the western museum as a colonial white and patriarchal institution. In this case, together with Master students of the University of Anthropology of Florence we reflected about the Museums of Anthropology building up a space-action of ephemeral existence where the presented pieces belong to live communities. We connected the pieces with the current context and problematics of the ethnic groups of precedence of the objects (Aymara, Guaraní and Mapuche, from South America), and the fight for their rights. We also reflected about how subaltern practices resist westernization. The exhibited pieces are crafts acquired by Oretta and Gian Piero Frascinelli, acquired beteween 1969 and 1973 in South America. Performers: Rita Duina, Simona Dominici, Sara Bensi, Simona Sora, Serena Calaresu, Giada Cerbara and Caterina Fioravanti. en.achagabriela.com/2020 Solo
2020

Every museum is a trap Royal Academy of Art The Hague, Argentina Installation at the library and series of performances developed during the graduation festival of the Royal Academy of Art of The Hague on September 2020. On display on the mobile exhibitional spaces the works of my beloved Silvana Montecchiesi and Farah Rahman. Performing: Farah Rahman, Hana Kozma, Georgina Kosmatu. graduation2020.kabk.nl/students/gabriele-acha Group
2020

Performance in the frame of Bartalk 18 Theater De Vaillant The Hague, United States BARTALK #18: Death and the Afterlife Featuring presentations by Marian Markelo, José Montemayor, Gabriela Acha, and Raoni Saleh. DJ Set by BAKÁH and Mint Park. Curated by Yun Lee, Rae Parnell, and Fazle Shairmahomed. Photos by Hans Poel. Mobile exhibitional space: Silvana Montecchiesi, Passiflora Caerulea. www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=bartalkdenhaag&set=a.2306127986352500 Group
2019

Killing Horizons Quartair The Hague, Uruguay Exhibition under the subject ArtScience. www.facebook.com/quartair/?__tn__=kC-R&eid=ARAmar9Qw9JDQHTI5-VA6pNSI9TErTvORK-tMcDKx7xoT8LFx8yoDD_YGNcNNpiI9cgVnxKka_d3YYbY&hc_ref=ARTYptikqEDEdRAGU9cNuSy2pd9T_MtKXo8l1DHRfEQmFjbulf3C7g_rKt_1Rb4W2sw&fref=nf&__xts__[0]=68.ARA0843rvpTqgzI0QkN5EofWDUSp5jNmFF Solo
2019

Partially conceivable Performance Interstice Festival Caen, Argentina URL of the festival, where you can find the nformation and docuementation of the performance. festival-interstice.net/ Solo
2019

Aires de tragedia Fundación Beethoven Buenos Aires, Argentina Link of a magazine with information about the artwork I presented in the frame of the exhibition. www.arte-online.net/Notas/Vanitas-I-de-Gabriela-Acha?fbclid=IwAR0RG2_2dS6AYQCyjGZhJ34eqH-Q4RsemRMt6Q0tPRivYkuXEKBfzbN3XhQ Group
2019

The Agri Cultures / Seeds Links Exhibition University of South Carolina -, United States Virtual exhibition connected to the subject Seed, links. www.seedcultures.com/ Group
2019

INFRA Susan Bites The Hague, Netherlands As the title of the group exhibition suggests "INFRA", which means below, is an exhibition in which the artist are researching the structures that support technological, logistical, and ideological formations. Artists: Gabriela Acha Matthew James Lanning Hannah Parikh Jaehun Park Jesse Siegel Jan Tomza-Osiecki thebalconythehague.com/INFRA Group
2018

Un museo o dos performance E.A.C. Contemporary Art Space Montevideo, Uruguay Documentation of the performance www.facebook.com/pg/achagabriela/photos/?tab=album&album_id=881495082012445 Solo
2016

RESERVA R.A.R.O. Residency Buenos Aires, Argentina Video, documentation of the residency and the two exhibitions in its frame. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_I4CB67QTE Solo

Projects

2014
Colectivo Expedicion Ce.p.i.a. Center of production and research in Arts. University of Cordoba. Cordoba, Argentina www.facebook.com/Expedici%C3%B3n-1033302226710163/ Since 2014 she I am part of a group of artists named Expedition, that works connecting Art and Natural Science. The members of this group are visual artists, researchers and scientific illustrators. The project was hosted from 2014 till 2018 in CEPIA, National University of Cordoba. We made several exhibitions, organized lectures, participated in artistic research forums and activities connecting Art and Natural Science.

International exchanges/Residencies

2020

Villa Romana, Artistic Residency Florence, Uruguay 1 month residency in Villa Romana to develop the exhibition and performance in the frame of the n Imaginary Anthropological Museum, curated by Valeria D'Ambrosio. artishockrevista.com/2020/12/09/mai-museo-antropologico-imaginario/
2019

Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of Florence Florence, Chile Research residency in cooperation with the Museum System of Florence, focused on the collection of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of Florence.
2018

E.A.C. Space of Contemporary Art of Montevideo. Montevideo, Argentina Documentation of the performance I developed at the residency. www.bitacoradevuelo.com.ar/2018/03/27/gabriela-acha-2/
2017

Molten Capital Artistic Residency Quito, Ecuador Documentation of the residency, exhibition and performances. www.moltencapital.com/residence/2018/3/21/residencia-09-ania-garca-llorente-chile-gabriela-reyna-cuba-gabriela-acha-argentina
2016

R.A.R.O. Residency Buenos Aires, Argentina Dcoumentation of the Residency and Exhibitios in its frame. www.esraro.com/gabriela-acha
2016

LAB LAB Residency, Intervalo Laboratorio. Quito, Ecuador Residency in Quito, and in the rainforest in Napo province, where we shared with native communities. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011385811260&fref=search&__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARD6AdUh31su0ShBdRf-Dr2mcXDlgvWsn63Tvv39u9HCmipoJ8t3l9eMPZB4Iu6Wv0I_Wm1v5NJ3HKXP
2016

La sala que habito, Cabildo de Córdoba. Cordoba, Argentina Official webpage of the Municcipality of Cordoba with the description of the project. culturaold.dtec.cordoba.gov.ar/2016/10/ya-se-pueden-visitar-nuevos-proyectos-de-la-sala-que-habito/

Commissions

2018

Vanitas 2 / Parcialmente concebible. Cultural Agency from Cordoba Province Cordoba, Argentina The Cultural Agency acquired two of my works that were delivered as business gifts. www.cba.gov.ar/reparticion/agencia-cordoba-cultura/ finished

Sales/Works in collections

2018

Several artworks BSM Art Building Buenos Aires, Argentinië BSM Art Building, a building with studios and exhibitional space for artists acquired several of my artworks to include them in the collection.
2017

Museo móvil. Molten Capital Santiago de Chile, Chili Molten Capital artistic residency acquired on of my artworks in 2017.
2016

Vanitas Museum Genaro Perez Cordoba, Argentinië Artwork aquired by the Museum through the prize Salon Ciudad de Cordoba 2016. This artwork received the 2nd Prize of the contest.
2016

Araucaria R.A.R.O. Buenos Aires, Argentinië R.A.R.O. Residency acquired one of my artworks in 2017.
2015

Sculpture Prize Patio Olmos Cultura Olmos Cordoba, Argentinië Patio Olmos Asociation acquaried the artwork Vegetalia taxidermia through the Patio Olmos Sculpture Prize. The artqork received the 2nd prize.

Publications

2018

Cuaderno de Campo Book independent Gabriela Acha, Mauricio Cerbellera, Silvana Montecchiesi, Dianela Paloque, Paula Roqué, Manuel Sosa, Santiago Viale and Carolina Senmartin. Cordoba, Argentina www.facebook.com/Expedici%C3%B3n-1033302226710163/ Book published by the collective Expedicion, through the Obrar Scholarship from the Municcipality of Cordoba. The book revises the track of the group and the connections between Art Aand Natural Science.

reviews

2020

MAI. MUSEO ANTROPOLÓGICO IMAGINARIO Magazine Artishock Cordoba, Chile artishockrevista.com/2020/12/09/mai-museo-antropologico-imaginario/ Review of the exhibition Imaginary Anthropologic Museum
2020

MAI. MUSEO ANTROPOLÓGICO IMAGINARIO Website Artishock Argentina artishockrevista.com/2020/12/09/mai-museo-antropologico-imaginario/ Review of the exhibition Imaginary Anthropologic Museum
2019

Vanitas I Website Arte Online Buenos Aires, Argentina www.arte-online.net/Notas/Vanitas-I-de-Gabriela-Acha Digital Magazine with information about my work Vanitas I.
2018

Deconstructing the notion of the museum as a death space. Website Carlos Diaz / Bitácora de vuelo Cordoba, Uruguay www.bitacoradevuelo.com.ar/2018/03/27/gabriela-acha-2/ Information about the performance A museum or two that I developed in Uruguay, published by a digital magazine about art.
2018

Histartiencia Website Fernando Sicco Argentina medium.com/@eacuy/histartiencia-422719b845a0 Inormation of the exhibition about Art History and Science curated by Fernando Sicco in the Contemporary Art Space from Montevideo, Uruguay. In this group exhibition I presented the installation To let everything as it was.
2017

Gabriela Acha Magazine Relieve Contemporáneo Cordoba relievecontemporaneo.com/gabriela-acha/ Review of my artworks in a digital arts amagazine.
2017

Tatooing smoke Newspaper Carlos Diaz / Bitácora de vuelo Cordoba, Argentina www.bitacoradevuelo.com.ar/2017/05/21/gabriela-acha/ Post about the exhibition Tatuando Humo, that I deveoped in Buenos Aires in 2017.

Awards and grants

2018

Holland Excellence Scholarship Nuffic-Dutch Ministry of Science and Culture Netherlands
2018

Beca de formación. Scholarship for formation. Argentinean National Fund of Arts Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016

2nd Prize Cordoba city Saloon Cordoba, Argentina
2016

Scholarship to participate of R.A.R.O. Residenty Argentinean National Fund of Arts Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015

3rd Prize Sculpture Patio Olmos Olmos Cultura Cordoba, Argentina

Secondary art-related activities

2020 - 2020

Guest lecturer at Massachusetts College of Art and Design of Boston, United States; in the frame of the course Junior and Senior BFA Printmaking. May 2020.
2020 - 2020

Guest lecturer at Massachusetts College of Art and Design of Boston, United States; in the frame of the course Junior and Senior BFA Printmaking. May 2020. On-going
2019 - 2019

Working as a guide at the Museum Voorlinden On-going