BIO

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ES / Mariangela Aponte Núñez (Cali, Colombia) es artista transdisciplinar cuyas prácticas exploran desde la creación individual a la colectiva la intersección entre medios tradicionales, técnicas artesanales y electrónica experimental junto a preocupaciones estéticas, medioambientales, sociales y políticas con frecuencia a través de metodologías inspiradas en el arte colaborativo y las prácticas del ‘hazlo con otros’ (DIWO). Ha sido artista en residencia del Año Colombia-Francia 2017, El Puente_lab, RESÒ 2015 y becaria ELAP 2012. Sus proyectos individuales y colaborativos han sido presentados en ciudades como Cali, La Habana, Turín, Estrasburgo, Montreal y Buenos Aires. Es Magíster en tecnología y estética de las artes electrónicas (UNTREF, Buenos Aires) y Licenciada en artes visuales (Universidad del Valle, Cali). Actualmente se interesa en la relación arte-cuerpo-vida siendo practicante de Yoga Iyengar y observando las plantas, los hongos y las materias orgánicas para crear procesos artísticos holísticos.

EN / Mariangela Aponte Núñez (Cali, Colombia) is a transdisciplinary artist whose practices explore from individual to collective creation the intersection between traditional media, artisan techniques and experimental electronics along with aesthetic, environmental, social and political concerns often through methodologies inspired by collaborative art and the DIWO (do it with others) practices. She has been an artist in residence of the Colombia-France Year 2017, El Puente_lab, RESÒ 2015 and an ELAP 2012 scholarship holder. Her individual and collaborative projects have been presented in cities such as Cali, Havana, Turin, Strasbourg, Montreal and Buenos Aires. She has a Master’s degree in technology and aesthetics of electronic arts (UNTREF, Buenos Aires) and a degree in visual arts (Universidad del Valle, Cali). She is currently interested in the art-body-life relationship, being a practitioner of Iyengar Yoga and observing plants, fungi and organic materials to create holistic artistic processes.

EDUCATION

GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES

  • 2023 – Convocatoria interna de investigaciones — Bellas Artes, Institución Universitaria del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
  • 2022 – Convocatoria interna de investigaciones — Bellas Artes, Institución Universitaria del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
  • 2022 – Estímulos 2022 — Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia y Secretaría de Cultura de Cali, Colombia.
  • 2021 –  Art and Nature — Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia.
  • 2020 – Online/Offline national residency: APTO – Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
  • 2019 – International residency: Festival IM Media — Sporobole, Sherbrooke, Canada.
  • 2019 – National residency: Piso Alto — Santa Fé, Antioquia, Colombia.
  • 2019 – Estímulos 2019 — Secretaría de Cultura de Cali, Colombia.
  • 2018 – Estímulos 2018, uncertain school, lugar a dudas — Secretaría de Cultura de Cali, Colombia.
  • 2017 – Estímulos 2017 — Secretaría de Cultura de Cali, Colombia.
  • 2017 – International residency: Year Colombia-France 2017 — La Chambre, Strasburg, France.
  • 2016 – International residency: Public Sessions 2016/2017 — el puente_lab, Colombia y LASA, Cuba.
  • 2016 – National residency: Viaje a Pie, — Galería LaMutante, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
  • 2015 – International residency: RESÒ — Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy.
  • 2013 – National and international mobility for artists and visual arts agents — Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia.
  • 2013 – International residency: Mondo Monde – New Media + — Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre, Canada.
  • 2013 – National residency: Design + Creation — Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia.
  • 2012 – ELAP (Emerging Leaders of the Americas Program) — Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT). Graduated exchange student in media art studies — Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2021 – Retratos Hablados — El Patio del Museo, Cali, Septiembre.
  • 2018 – Geomance — Casa Proartes, Cali, Colombia, June/July.
  • 2017-2018 – As above, so below. Site-specific installation — Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia, October 2017/January 2018.
  • 2017 – Eutopia. Photography — Espacio Interferencia gallery, Cali, Colombia, October/ December.
  • 2016 – Hyperromanticism and anti-monuments, installation, photographs, paper objects. lugar a dudas, Cali, Colombia, April/May. 
  • 2015 – Hyperromantic, installation, photographs, paper objects, video. In Primo Luogo, Turin, Italy, December.
  • 2015 – Territories, photographs, video and installation. Alianza Francesa de Cali, February/April.
  • 2010-2009 – 7 Rivers in 49 images, photographs. Biblioteca Mario Carvajal, Universidad del Valle, Cali, March/April. Museo de Historia Natural, Cali, June. Museo Arqueológico La Merced, Cali, April/June.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

  • 2022 – Tierra en Tránsito, Curaduría Inaudito Magdalena, 46SNA – Museo de Arte del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia, July.
  • 2022 – Museo + Escuela – Museo La Tertulia, Cali, May 26 to June 26.
  • 2021 – 10 Ans de photographie – La Chambre, Strasbourg, May 22 to May 30.
  • 2021/2020 – El sol es siempre el mismo – Policroma galería, Medellín y Beta galería, Bogotá, Diciembre-Febrero.
  • 2020 – Atendido por sus propietarios Vol. 2 – Exhibición virtual. Septiembre-Octubre.
  • 2019 – (d)estructura – PASAJ, Istanbul, Turkey, October/November.
  • 2019 – (d)estructura – CDAV, Havana, Cuba, April/May.
  • 2018 – Artecámara – ARTBO, Bogotá, Colombia, October.
  • 2018 – Arte al Centro – Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy, May/December.
  • 2017 – Identity, Year Colombia-France 2017 – La Chambre, Strasbourg, November/December.
  • 2017 – Third Paradise, a responsible art laboratory — Havana, November/December.
  • 2017 – Participative poetry projection for Alexandre Castonguay’s Bike Wheel – KM3 Quarter des spectacles, Montreal, August.
  • 2016 – Viaje a Pie, Galería LaMutante, Bucaramanga, Colombia, September.
  • 2016/2017 – 500×1000, Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italia.
  • 2016 – As part of ‘A Room for Doubt: Lugar a Dudas at ISCP’ – ISCO, New York, United States, May/June.
  • 2013 – Agit P.O.V. Videos, photos and installation in collaboration with Alexandre Castonguay for his exhibition “Inscriptions”, Gallerie Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, August/Sept.
  • 2011 – 7 Rivers en 49 images. Balance-Unbalance 2011, DB Clark Theatre. Concordia University, Montréal, Nov. 4 y 5.
  • 2011 – 7 Rivers en 49 images and We are losing oxygen. Equilibrio-Desequilibrio 2011, Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires, Nov.
  • 2011 – Black is absence of light, reactive installation. Fase3: Art and technology meeting, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, May.
  • 2010 – 7 Rivers en 49 images, web version. Ciudad Imaginada 2010, Centro Cultural Colombo Americano, Cali, Oct/Dec.

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

2022 – Arte y cultura por la verdad. Como parte de los artistas invitados por Angélica Teuta en las acciones de activación – Camión nómada en varios espacios de Neiva, Colombia, Julio 14 al 17. 2019 – Open room, Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia, December. 2019 – Medellín open sky, MAMM, Medellín, Colombia, November. 2019 – PASAJ, XVI Istanbul Biennial, parallel events, Turkey, October. 2019 – XIII Havana Biennial, official selection, Havana, Cuba, April. 2018 – The rules of the game, Colombo-Americano, Medellín, Colombia, May. 2017 – LudoCity, Unidee, Biella, Italy, May. 2017 – Performing the social, IAAD, Turin, Italy, February.

2019 – Museum of Ingenuity, Valcourt, Canada, July/September. 2017 – M3 Quarter des spectacles, Montreal, August. 2015 – Laboratorio de Juguete, Buenos Aires, June. 2015 – Mapping Festival, Ginebra, Switzerland, May. 2015  Fundación A47, México, February. 2014  Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico, November. 2014 – A47 Biblioteca Móvil, Mexico, November. 2014 – BIAN, Bienal Internacional de Artes Numéricas, Montréal, May/June. 2014 – Manif D’Art, Bienal du Québec, June. 2014 – ComunLab Verde, Cali, May. 2013 – ComunLab, Cali, November. 2013 – Nuit Blanche, Le Labo, Toronto, October. 2013 – Bozar electronic art festival, Brussels, September. 2013 – We Make the City, Electric Fields, Ottawa, August./September. 2013 – Medialab 376, Universidad San Buenaventura, Cali, August. 2013 – Mondo Monde – New Media + Festival, Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre, Sackville, July. 2013 – Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales, April. 2013 – Universidad Icesi, Diseño de Medios Interactivos, Cali, February. 2013 – lugar a dudas, Cali, February. 2012 – E-Fest, Créa Numérica, Tunisia, November. 2012 – Eastern Bloc, Montreal, September.

  • 2015 – Lune Express, a soundtrack for Territories exhibition, sound performance in collaboration with Giovanny Suárez Terranova — Alianza Francesa de Cali, April.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2023-2021 / 2018-2016 – Bellas Artes, Institución Universitaria del Valle, Cali.

  • Current courses: Biomaterials Lab, Electrotextile Lab.
  • Past courses: Research-Creation, Plastic Workshop II: The Body.
  • Current research: Sondas de Profundidad & Founder of the Bio research-creation laboratory in art, design, science and technology. 

 

  • Current course: Art and technology.
  • Past courses: Design and Society, Movement Laboratory, Research-Creation.
  • Past researches: Textile Seminar and Founder of 418 research-creation laboratory in art, design and technology. 

2021, 2020, 2019, 2016 Museo + Escuela (Museum + School), Museo La Tertulia, Cali.

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