Fundación´ace
DIRECTION
A visual artist, architect, independent curator and adventurous traveller, Alicia thinks that movement (of concepts, techniques and places) as well as diversity (of people and ideas) are essential in creative processes. She roots her professional practice on three strategies, which she develops together: her artistic work, curatorial practices and the making/direction of artistic projects -in collaboration with creators around the world- in the fields of printed and digital media, photography and design.
Our director is in ´ace, even though she may be traveling or heading projects in other parts of the globe. With a presence -that seems to develop simultaneously- she evaluates applications, manages and directs the team, reviews portfolios, provides technical guidance and works in the exhibitions´ design and curatorship. She advises, beyond each residence, on the next steps that each artist can take in their career to expand it globally. Her comprehensive gaze, product of her training in different disciplines of art, theory and design, helps artists to think their work differently as well as to generate international networks with other spaces and actors of the international art and residences circuits.
Belonging to a large family, she likes to be surrounded by people, knows how to share and is a good hostess. The artists, creators and thinkers who meet her are inspired by the inexhaustible energy and enthusiasm of this generator of dreams that become reality.
A TEAM OF CREATORS AND THINKERS
We are a bilingual team of artists, cultural managers and educators specialized in production and research of contemporary art. We transition the same questions and difficulties as the artists and curators we support and work with. We understand your needs, and we are prepared and eager to support and collaborate with you. During the last 15 years we have hosted and work with more than 500 artists and relevant artistic institutions producing residencies, international exhibitions, urban interventions, educational projects with and for the community, workshops and multiple editions. We come from different fields of contemporary art, including print and digital media, photography, performance, design, installations and curatorial practice with a focus on expanded field artistic practices.
´ace team distinctive way of working is rooted in the vision of its founder, who in her university years participated in the “Total Workshop” at the School of Architecture and Urbanism, National University of Córdoba in Argentina. This was an unprecedented political and pedagogical experience in Argentine and Latin American higher education, in which professors taught and students learned inside of a non-hierarchical structure, where individuals with different levels of knowledge worked collaboratively as a team. Many years later, without being aware of it at the beginning, Alicia have applied this format to the ´ace residency programs, which have been developing a unique and collaborative way of artistic production. Here, there are no artistic hierarchies. A horizontal structure embraces all the participants: the team, residents (whether they are emerging or career artists), visiting artists and volunteers. All of them are required to contribute to the same subject but in different degrees, according to their knowledge and experience. This apply for both personal and group projects. At the end, those with the most refined skills are responsible for the final synthesis and all of us for a reflective and critical vision.
STAFF 2024
Andrés Knob
Executive Coordinator
A polymath with vast experience in cultural projects and art production management, having worked in collaboration with national and international institutions both public and private. Our coordinator also has knowledge of and is involved with international art residencies, art education, image theory studies and diverse art disciplines such as photography, performance and relational art.
Andrés also has a fascination for ideas and a passion for techniques, a passion that he spreads simultaneously over such diverse paths as his experience as a ski instructor, practicing cooking in a meticulous manner or DJ with vinyl turntables.
Jesús Román Carreño
Artistic Director in Residence
Jesús is a Chilean visual artist and scholar. She has a degree in Visual Arts and a Master of Arts, mention in Visual Arts from the University of Chile. She is the former Director of the Museum of Modern Art of the UACH-Universidad Austral de Chile and a current professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Arts in the same university. During the last fourteen years she has dedicated herself to working in the field of visual arts, addressing some topics that refer to the translation of language codes and visual codes, through minimal representation systems that generally, and in a subtle way, overflow through its materiality.
During the months of September and October, Jesús will work with us, contributing her experience as Artistic Director of ´acePIRAR.
Sebastián Podbersich
Workshop Coordinator
With studies in Visual Arts, specializing in Printmaking and Print Media, his knowledge and passion for formulas, procedures and reactions -from the combination of elements- allows Sebastián to develop and apply his knowledge in the workshop, while seeks to produce the ideas that arise working in collaboration with the artists in residence. In addition, in his personal work he expands printmaking allowing himself to investigate and produce in fields that go through two-dimensionality.
Amateur scientist and foodie, his techniques go beyond the workshop into the kitchen, another area where his skills and love for making, makes us delight with incredible meals and desserts.
Daniela Ruíz Moreno
Curator Semillero 2024
Currently curator of the Invisible Caregivers Program in Madrid, Spain, Daniela was part of the ´ace team from 2012 to 2018, serving as Program Coordinator and currently, from Madrid, continuing with curatorial tasks in our online programs. In 2019 she won the Brooks International Scholarship and moved to London to work at Tate Modern in the Tate Exchange Program and in 2020 she received the Shanghai Curators Lab 2 Award.
Daniela was born and raised between two cities that border the Río de la Plata, the geographical limit between Argentina and Uruguay. She has Austrian heritage on her mother’s side. In her personality she blends, in balance, the tranquility of the Charrúa people with the Saxon precision. She likes dance, experimental music and movies.
Cassia Tavares
Volunteer in residence
Brazilian, almost Uruguayan, living in Argentina. Cássia is a photographer and visual artist, based in the City of Buenos Aires for the last 7 years. She has a degree in Social Communication and is a senior student of the Bachelor’s Degree in Documentary Film and Photography at UNSAM.
As an artist and researcher, she is dedicated to thinking about the relationships between art, science and territory. Through artistic practices and multidisciplinary studies, she seeks new ways of inhabiting border areas.
At ‘ace, she Cássia portrays the resident artists and accompanies them by photographing their processes. She walks through the spaces guided by curiosity to record the gestures, forms and materials that emerge in these creative encounters.
Lidia Quipildor
Kitchen and maintenance
Lidia grew up in a very small town in northern Argentina, in an area of alfalfa plantations. Her first bond with the kitchen was, as for many, through her mother, who was very fond of cooking and even sold empanadas for special occasions in Cachi. At the age of 13, she moved to the capital city of Salta, where she completed high school and finally, in 1993 she moved again to Buenos Aires.
In ‘ace she maintains our space and cooks a meal that does not go unnoticed and that many artists say they miss when they leave. The repulgue of her empanadas is perfect and the mashed potatoes priceless!
INTERNATIONAL HONORARY ADVISOR BOARD 2023- 2024
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