Fundación´ace
DIRECTION
Alicia Candiani is a visual artist, architect, curator, and practitioner and thinker in contemporary art. Her practice spans expanded printmaking, digital media, photography, architectural interventions, and collaborative processes, exploring the relationships between image, space, territory, technology, and context. With more than four decades of artistic and curatorial practice, her interdisciplinary background has shaped a broad perspective on how artists develop their work and navigate different contexts.
In 2005, she founded Proyecto´ace and established ´acePIRAR, the International Artist-in-Residence Program, which she continues to direct. Her own experience of working and traveling across different contexts has deeply informed her approach to supporting artists as they navigate new places, perspectives, and possibilities. Over the years, she has built an extensive international network of artists, residencies, museums, universities, and cultural institutions that is integral to ´ace.
What most characterizes her approach is her ability to see possibilities beyond the immediate scope of a project—new directions for an artistic inquiry, connections with people or institutions, or unexpected contexts for developing a work. Her curiosity, generosity in sharing knowledge, and pleasure in working with others have shaped ´ace as a space for dialogue, exchange, and connection with other worlds.
A NETWORK OF CREATORS AND THINKERS
´ace brings together a network of artists, curators, researchers, educators, and collaborators working across different areas of contemporary art, including printmaking, digital media, photography, performance, design, installation, and curatorial practice. This network evolves and expands according to the needs of each project, bringing together different forms of knowledge, experience, and perspectives.
This way of working is rooted in the experience of ´ace founder Alicia Candiani, who, while studying architecture at the National University of Córdoba, was part of Taller Total at its Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism. This experimental educational project proposed an interdisciplinary and less hierarchical structure based on collective work and the exchange of knowledge among people with different levels of experience and expertise.
Many years later, and without initially conceiving it as a method, this experience became part of the way ´ace works. Each project grows through an exchange among artists and people with different backgrounds, allowing knowledge to move in multiple directions. Rather than imposing a particular way of working, ´ace seeks to create a space for dialogue, critical thinking, and collaboration where each artist can pursue their own inquiry with greater autonomy and new perspectives.
COLLABORATORS
Maria Hill (Meanjin, Brisbane, Australia)
Volunteers-in-Residency
Maria is an Australian-Argentinian artist who graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Queensland College of Art and Design, where they received the Outstanding Achievement in Major Award (Photography). They work explores the artist’s book through analogue photography, printmaking, and installation. They are currently developing their practice in Buenos Aires and are a finalist for the 2027 Tertiary Artist’s Book Prize at Artspace Mackay.
Traveler
INTERNATIONAL HONORARY ADVISOR BOARD 2026
Liz Ingram C.M. FRSC RCA
Edmonton, Canada
Order of Canada, Governor General of Canada, Ottawa
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada and Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Ottawa
Distinguished University Professor Emerita, Department of Art and Design,University of Alberta, Edmonton
Director Emerita, Proyecto´ace, International Artist-in-Residence Program, Buenos Aires
Artist and curator
Écuyère
Alvaro de Salvo
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Business Administrator specialized in non-for-profit organizations; OKR and Marketing/Strategy Couch.
Currently he is the Marketing Director at Storyteq, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Former Head of Global Marketing and Communications at Akvo Foundation, Amsterdam. Former Communications Manager, ResArtis,the International Artist in Residence Network.
Co-founder. Proyecto´ace, Artist-in-Residence International Program, Buenos Aires.
Sailor
Aleksandra Janic, PhD
Wroclaw, Poland
Visual artist and curator.
Head of the Digital and Experimental Printmaking Studio at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the 56th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia in Italy in 2015.
Reader and traveller
Wang Huaxiang
Beijing, China
Deputy Dean of the School of Fine Arts and PhD Supervisor, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
President of the International Academic Printmaking Alliance (IAPA)
Dean of the International Printmaking Institute (IPI)
Member of the China Artists Association
Artist and curator
Sommelier
Rimer Cardillo
Montevideo, Uruguay | New Paltz-New York, United States
Emeritus Professor, State University of New York at New Paltz
Director, “Association Rimer Cardillo: The graphic image”. Montevideo, Uruguay
Landscape and garden designer
Artist and curator
Cook
Joseph Scheer, MFA
Alfred - New York, United States
Distinguished Professor, SUNY- State University of New York
Co- founder and Director, IEA-Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, New York
Profesor, Expanded Media Division, Alfred University, New York
Vice President, IAPA- International Academic Printmaking Alliance, Beijing, China
Fulbright Scholar, artist and curator
Cook
Zhao Jiachun, PhD
Guanlan, China
Vice-Director. China Print Museum, Shenzhen
Director of The Office of Guanlan International Print Biennial
Director of International Exchange Department, China Printmaking Museum
Member of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of CPPCC
Chines People´s Political Consultative Conference
Curator and art writer
Tai Chi instructor
María Jesús Román, MFA
Valdivia, Chile
Professor at the Institute of Visual Arts -Faculty of Architecture and Arts. UACH-Austral University of Chile. Valdivia, Chile
Former UACH Contemporary Art Museum, Director. Valdivia, Chile
Visual artist and curator
David Arteargoitia, PhD
Bilbao, Spain
Professor, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao
Director, Open Portfolio, FIG Bilbao
Artist and curator
Trekker
