Artists
Argentina
Gabriela Esterovich
Cartographies of Fragility
13.10.25 07.11.25
Gabriela Esterovich is an Argentine visual artist and children educator. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in La Plata, specializing in Engraving and Printmaking. She builds her work through a continuity of ideas that involve different media—centered on graphic art, she moves through photography, video, visual poetry, and artist’s books.
During her Production Residency, Gabriela devoted her time in the studio to an intense and extensive process, creating images from photographs she both took herself and extracted from the internet. These images were manipulated, used as a starting point for hand drawings, and also superimposed with urban textures from the asphalt of the street. The result was graphic pieces that deal with the physical and social body through a mixture of techniques and graphic formats.
ARTIST STATEMENT
In a constant search for identity, I explore liminality as a strategy, as a zone of passage and interval to observe provisional demarcations. The edges of the physical body and the social body pull on autobiography to traverse the notion of territory and border. Thus, I construct images with various techniques surrounding the poetics of confusion, silence, and emptiness as archetypal experiences and materialities that condense meaning. I seek to understand the fabric of the contemporary world, to point out power relations and their symbolic gestures imprinted on the collective memory.
BIO
Gabriela Esterovich
1967 | La Plata, Argentina
Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina
EDUCATION
2018 | Contemporary Graphic Techniques with Adriana Moracci, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006 | Lithography at the Centro de Edición, Dir. Natalia Giaccheta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1991 | Professor of Engraving and Printed Art. Faculty of Fine Arts-UNLP, La Plata, Argentina
EXHIBITIONS
2023 | OPEN Buenos Aires 2023. La Prensa Building (Casa de la Cultura), Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022-2014 | Manuel Belgrano National Salon. Sívori Museum, Buenos Aires. Argentina
2019 | 8th International Triennial of Graphic Arts. Sofia, Bulgaria
2019 | New Prints/2019 Winter. IPCNY, New York, USA.
2019 | Confrontation/Conversation Project. The Jerusalem Biennale, Jerusalem, Israel
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & OTHERS
2023 | FIG Bilbao Award at OPEN Buenos Aires, Argentina
2018 | First Prize Salón Primavera. Municipality of San Fernando, Buenos Aires. Argentina
2018 | Honorable Mention 33rd International Fine Art Competition, Chelsea, New York, USA.
2016 | Special Jury Mention III Biennial Artist’s Book. Casa Carnacini Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Related Activities
´aceNITE, Exhibitions
20th Anniversary Celebration
Artists in Dialogue
05.11.25
As part of its 20th anniversary commemorations, Proyecto´ace celebrated two decades of residencies, encounters, and contemporary art with an open studio that brought together local and international artists for an evening of toasts, affection, and new creations.
On November 5, the ´ace studio was transformed into a meeting point for diverse practices, languages, and geographies. Swiss artist Nina Staehli presented The Tower, an installation that intertwines sculpture, video, and graphics around the ideas of identity, transience, and monumentality. Argentine musician and sound artist Matías Homar (currently based in the USA) offered a sound performance with his speakers built from sublimated and laser-cut polyethylene pieces, expanding listening as a spatial experience. Gabriela Esterovich (Argentina), in production residency, shared her various processes in the ´ace workshop, while muralist Cheri Charlton (USA) presented Threat, her intervention on the ´ace terrace inspired by fileteado porteño and the urban fauna of Buenos Aires.
In addition, artists Franc Paredes and Adriana Moracci (both from Argentina) presented new interventions within the Carapantallas Project, expanding the dialogue between art, city, and public space.
With toasts, music, and the presence of the ´ace family, made up of colleagues and friends who are part of our history, the celebration was a tribute to the journey we have taken, reaffirming Proyecto´ace as a space for experimentation, hospitality, and emotional resonance in local and international contemporary art.
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