Aruma (Sandra deBerduccy)
Born in Oruro, Bolivia, in 1976, Aruma is an artist and researcher of textiles and new media. Graduated in Plastic Arts from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, she also completed a Master's Degree in Visual Arts at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. In 2013, she was associate artist of ESCALA –Essex Collection of Art from Latin America–, United Kingdom. In 2017, she began a collaboration with the “Penélope” project: A Study of Weaving as Technical Mode of Existence, at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany. He has exhibited individually and collectively since 1991 in various national and international exhibitions. His work can be found in collections such as ESCALA, United Kingdom, the National Museum of Art in La Paz, Bolivia, and various private collections around the world. He has also developed workshops and curatorships, among them, Territorio Lupaqa: Art and Technology in the Native Forest and the general curatorship of the VIII SIART International Art Biennial "Heterotopias", Bolivia, 2013. He is currently preparing an exhibition for the Museum of Fine Arts (Santiago, Chile).
Juanqui Arevalo (BO) and Elena Filomeno (PE)
Juanqui is an interdisciplinary artist, playwright and dancer. His work oscillates between the borders of conceptual dance, dramaturgy and urban dance. It understands the word as a living and dancing organism, as well as dance as a scriptural entity in space and time. It oscillates, dialogues and operates between the scriptural and the performative, saying and doing, written and spoken words and bodies in action; and its resonances.
Elena is a dancer, actress and choreographer born in Peru, she lives in Bolivia. Her research practice invites her to dialogue with biology, science and memory and how choreographic thinking is affected and undisciplined by others. Her creations seek to establish a dialogue with her family past, being a migrant woman, and how it generates possible futures through memory as a tool to create visionary fictions.
Both are co-founders of Project BORDER, Research Laboratory for the Scene. Curators of INMATERIAL Residence for Living Arts. Directors and teachers of CUERPOANIMAL, a contemporary dance training space.
alfredo coloma
Alfredo Coloma is a Bolivian artist. He has a degree in Visual Arts from Université Paris VIII (Paris, France) and an MFA (with honors) from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d'Arles (Arles, France). She is currently pursuing an MFA in Contemporary Artistic Practices at HEAD - Haute Ecole d'Art et Design de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland). In 2017 he received the Yvon Lambert Prize for Young Creation organized by the Lambert Collection (France). Works between Geneva and La Paz.
Juan Fabbri
Italo-Bolivian artist, visual anthropologist and curator. He currently works as a Research Professor at the Institute of Anthropological and Archaeological Research of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (2016 – present). He was Curator of the Bolivian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017, Italy) and Bienalsur (2019, Argentina). She was part of the organizing team of the “Practical Disobediences” seminar at Tate Exchange (2020, United Kingdom) together with Joselyn Contreras and Rosario Montero. He was Head of Museum and Curator of the National Museum of Art of Bolivia (2016-2019), and worked as Cultural Manager and National Head of Cultural Management of the Cultural Foundation of the Central Bank of Bolivia (2019 – 2021). He collaborates with the Post(s) Magazine of the USFQ College of Communication and Contemporary Arts (Ecuador), the Chilean magazine Visual Anthropology (Chile), and the Anthropological Texts magazine (Bolivia). He is interested in the intersections, links and tensions between anthropology and contemporary art.
Grace Maria Gonzales
Born in Santa Cruz, Bolivia (1996), she is a visual artist and poet. He is part of the collective “For the Recovery of Memory”. She is a collaborator of the “Freedom Movement” and part of the group “Desembocada”. She was awarded by the XXI International Art Biennial of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (2019). He has participated in various exhibitions in Bolivia including the Biennial of "Contexts" (Cochabamba), Kiosko Gallery and the MAC in Santa Cruz de la Sierra; He also participated in international exhibitions in Chile, Italy and Switzerland. She is the author of Untitled (Army), A editions, 2018. and Circa, Nuevos Clásicos, 2021.
Guely Morato Loredo
Born in La Paz, Bolivia. She is a sound artist, curator and researcher. She has directed the Sonandes sound art biennial since 2014, as well as the Gender, Science and Technology Observatory (a platform that reflects on the gender gap in the technological and scientific field). She is in charge of Sound Expressions, a project for the CRC cultural center (La Paz). His work explores alternative methodologies for artistic research and the relationship between science, technology and politics.
santiago contreras
Born in La Paz, Bolivia (1986), he has a degree in Architecture from the Bolivian Catholic University in La Paz (2010); He also obtained an MFA from the Bauhaus Universität of Weimar (Germany, 2015). His work focuses on the exploration of the common languages and universes between the visual arts and architecture, and also seeks a constant reflection on the processes that allow the matter to be endowed with agencies. He has exhibited in different galleries, museums, performance festivals in Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Cyprus, the United States, Spain and Germany. In 2011 he won the Spain Young Art Award at the VII SIART Biennial, Bolivia. In 2014 he received the Scholarship for Artists from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).
He has carried out artistic residences in Cuba, Bolivia, Spain and Argentina. He has also participated in international art clinics and workshops in Spain and Germany.
Between 2016 and 2017, he gives workshops for Kiosko gallery and is co-curator of the Training and Artistic Creation Program "Salto al Vacío" (Expresarte 2017). Since 2019, he has been a professor of the Architecture Degree at the Bolivian Catholic University "San Pablo". In 2022, he was selected for the Gasworks (London) artist residency. Lives and works in La Paz.
Ramiro Garavito
(Bolivia, 1956) is a philosopher, artist and art critic. He founded the project and cultural space Martadero and the contemporary art contest CONART (CBBA). He was curator in versions III and V of SIART (BO) and jury in the XVI and XVII International Art Biennial of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (GAMSC); “Pedro Domingo Murillo” Award (GAMLP), among others. He has made more than 30 personal and collective exhibitions since 1983, in Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Germany and Brazil. In 2003, he received the “Best Art Critic, Unique Prize” award from the GAMLP and many other awards over the years. Apart from the numerous articles and texts he has written for the press, exhibition catalogs and memories of cultural events, he has published the books Art, knowledge and uncertainty (A editions, 2022); The art invention. Texts selected 1998-2017 (KIOSKO/AECID, 2019) and has participated in publications such as El video arte en Bolivia (ed. Narda Alvarado, 2010). Currently, he teaches Art History and Aesthetics at the “Man Cesped” Music Conservatory (CBBA) and co-curator of the “Contextos” Biennial of Contemporary Art (BO).
Eloisa Paz Prada
Born in La Paz, Bolivia (1988), she is an editor, artist and editorial designer. He has participated in collective and individual exhibitions in France, China, the US and Bolivia, since 2014. In 2015, he founded A Ediciones, a publishing house dedicated to contemporary art in Bolivia, which he directs to this day, with more than 25 published titles. Between 2018 and 2021, he was part of the Estudio DOS screen printing studio. He was a member of the “Ojo al charque” Art Observatory (2019-2020), participating in that framework in the Congress of Bolivian Studies, with the presentation “Contemporary art in Santa Cruz de la Sierra”. His graphic work has been selected and exhibited for the Bicebe Poster Biennial (2019 and 2021) and the Ibero-American Design Biennial (2020). He carried out research and art residencies at KIOSKO gallery (Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 2018) and at ALTER (Val d-Anniviers, Switzerland, 2022). Currently, he works as a teacher in the Design Department of the Bolivian Catholic University "San Pablo".
Juan Carlos Prudencio Aponte
Born in La Paz, Bolivia in 1988, he has lived in Buenos Aires since 2010. Graduated in Combined Arts (UBA). He is a teacher in secondary and higher education in Art History; researcher in cinema and contemporary living arts; producer and performer. He is part of the Intermediality Research Group. Arts, literature and animal husbandry at the National University of the Arts. He produced and programmed scenic content at Club Cultural Matienzo between 2017 and 2019. He is the producer of the series Drama es Acción (2017, 2018, 2019) and Migraciones (2018). Active participant of the live arts collective MARTE and the interdisciplinary group CACHOS. He acted in the stage works A diversified structure, More here, Political Family and Migratory Waves.
Cristina Machado
Cristina Machicado Murillo (La Paz, Bolivia 1986). Historian, Cultural Manager and Archivist. She worked as a researcher at the Center for Social Research of the Vice Presidency of the Plurinational State of Bolivia and the Institute of Bolivian Studies of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés. Throughout his professional life he has also coordinated documentary, photographic and bibliographic organization projects, as well as audiovisual productions around cultural activities with the Flavio Machicado Viscarra Foundation (FFMV) and other university and independent spaces such as the Archivo La Paz, Residencia Materia Gray and the Torrico Zamudio Cultural Foundation.
Rebecca Peace
Visual artist and emerging designer, she was born in the city of La Paz, Bolivia. He obtained a higher technical degree in Graphic Design - Print Media from the Le Corbusier school in Illkirsch-Graffenstaden (France); and a Bachelor and Master in Research in Plastic Arts and Contemporary Creation from the Paris 1 University, Panthéon-Sorbonne (France). He assumed the photographic language as a metaphor of his own interests around the image. He participated in the collective exhibitions “Ouverture” (Plateforme, Paris, 2020); “Ces sourdes violences que nos regards entendent” (Jour et Nuit Culture, Paris, 2020); “IMAGO” (Gray Matter, La Paz, 2022). In 2021, he published the photo-book MAGMA (To editions). Currently, he has returned to his country of origin, rethinking his work in that context to develop it from an intimate process of introspection and investigation.
Manuel Seoane
Bolivian independent documentary photographer. He has participated in several festivals and competitions such as Tbilisi Night of Photography, Lumix Festival, The Fence, Flash Forward, PhotogrVphy Grant, Lucie Foundation Scholarship, Lens-New York Times Portfolio Review and in the Eddie Adams XXXIII. Since 2018 he has been part of the National Geographic Explorers team and that same year he won the Reuters Photojournalism Grant award. In 2019 he was awarded the Pulitzer Center Journalism Fund. He has published and collaborated with The Wall Street Journal (United States), Télérama (France), Huck Magazine (United Kingdom), Die Zeit (Germany), El País (Spain), Clarín (Argentina) and others. He is a member of the Diversify Photo and Everyday Projects collectives.
OzZo (Oscar Soza Figueroa)
Born in Agua de Castilla, Potosí, in 1985, he obtained a degree in Art from the Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno (Santa Cruz), specializing in Sculpture and New Media. She is a postgraduate of the Master's in Higher Education at the same institution and the Master's in Research and Artistic Production at the University of Barcelona, Spain, where she began a doctorate in the same career in 2017. In Bolivia, he is a founding member of ARTErias Urbanas, a transdisciplinary collective of young artists who intervene in private or public spaces with painting, installations, performance, among other media. Since 2008, he has exhibited nationally and internationally, in countries such as Argentina, Italy, England, France, Lithuania, Spain and Germany. She has been an art teacher in the Art Career at the “Gabriel René Moreno” Autonomous University and currently teaches in the “Diakonia” Audiovisual Communication Career, Bolivian Catholic University (Santa Cruz, Bolivia). He lives and works in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
Serena Vargas
Visual artist born in 1990 (Cochabamba, Bolivia). His favorite medium is performance. He develops his work through experience as a vital fluid in the construction of the body/action and its relation to the other as a synchronous reflection in the context, from a transdisciplinary perspective. He has participated in biennials, festivals and collective exhibitions of contemporary art in Bolivia and the USA. In 2018, she joined a transdisciplinary group within the framework of the Textile Creation Laboratory, the final result of which is materialized in the exhibition “ENTRAÑA, the sacred feminine”; of which one of the collective works won the Acquisition Prize of the X SIART Art Biennial (La Paz, Bolivia). Her most recent individual exhibition was "I'm not crazy, I'm a cyborg" (MNA, La Paz, 2021).
Maximiliano Sinani
Born in La Paz (1989), he is a Bolivian visual artist. He studied architecture at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (La Paz, Bolivia) and continued his studies at the School of Visual Arts (New York, USA). Siñani co-founded the 67 gallery in New York (2015). He has exhibited at the Museo del Barrio (NY), the National Museum of Art (Bolivia), Era Aurora (Torino), Bolivian biennials, among others. He has been awarded the Sylvia Lipson Allen Memorial Award and first prize at the XIX Santa Cruz Biennial of Visual Arts. He did residencies at KIOSKO Galería (Santa Cruz, Bolivia), ISCP (Brooklyn), and CRIPTA747 (Torino). His work has been published in the magazines Disonare, Arte al Limite and by Bukow Press and A editions. Currently doing a Master of Arts (Frankfurt).
liliana zapata
Visual artist born in La Paz (1986). He studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts "Hernando Siles" (La Paz), graduating with a mention in Sculpture. In 2008 he studied at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts du Mans, France. He won the Prize in the specialty "Other media" (LIX Municipal Hall of Plastic Arts "Pedro Domingo Murillo"); the Second Prize of the Young Art Contest “Expresarte”; Young Award of the Emerging Art Fair JUSTMAD, which gave him the opportunity to present SILENT METAMORPHOSIS at the Mustang Art Gallery (MAG) in Elche, Spain in 2015; EMERGING BOLIVIAN ARTIST AWARD in London (2015). As part of this achievement, he presented his project Estudio de papel at the ALTITUDE THREADS exhibition, London, 2015. In 2013, INCISIONES was his first individual exhibition at the National Museum of Art (Bolivia). In 2016, the exhibition CONSTELACIONES un punto opens. a place in NUBE Gallery, Santa Cruz (Bolivia) and in La Gallerie (French Alliance, La Paz). He recently had several individual and collective exhibitions in Spain. He lives and works in the Canary Islands.
Marisabel Villagomez
She was born in La Paz in 1976. She is a postgraduate graduate (ABD) from Georgetown University in Contemporary Latin American History. He directs a Presidio of the Unesco Chair of the University of Basilicata in which he develops research on the cultural landscape of the coca leaf. She is curator of the exhibitions “Lo Normal” (2016) and “Illimani InSitu” (2019).