Bio:

Eliana Otta Vildoso es Licenciada en Arte y Magíster en Estudios Culturales por la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Se graduó como PhD con el proyecto Lost and Shared: Approaches to Collective Mourning Towards Affective and Transformative Politics, por el programa Phd in Practice en la Academia de Bellas Artes de Viena. Fue la coordinadora del Equipo Curatorial para la exposición permanente del Lugar de la Memoria, Tolerancia e Inclusión Social. Es cofundadora del colectivo Mouries en Atenas y del espacio de artistas Bisagra en Lima.

Ha sido docente en la Facultad de Arte de la PUCP, Corriente Alterna y la Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes del Perú. Eliana también enseña yoga y tiene un alter ego, Dj Flaquita, una eternamente amateur dj.

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Eliana Otta Vildoso is a Peruvian artist who holds a degree in Fine Arts and a Masters in Cultural Studies from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She completed her doctorate with the project Lost and Shared: Approaches to Collective Mourning Towards Affective and Transformative Politics from the Phd in Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. She cofounded the collective Mouries in Athens and the artist-run space Bisagra in Lima.  She coordinated the curatorial team for the permanent exhibition at the Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia y la Inclusión Social.

She has taught at the Art Faculty of PUCP, Corriente Alterna and Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. She also teaches yoga and is the (eternally amateur) Dj Flaquita.

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CV: 

Education:

PhD, graduated from the PhD-in-practice program, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

Master’s Degree in Cultural Studies, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP).

Graduated in Arts, Faculty of Arts Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP).

Solo exhibitions (selection):

2024:   Sentient Beings. Gradski muzej Križevci. HRV

2018:   Mar, piedras y karaoke (Sea, stones and karaoke). Galería 80m2 Livia Benavides, Lima, PE.

2017:   Palabras de mujeres. (Women´s words) Sala Raúl Porras Barrenechea, Lima, PE.

2015:   Lima 100pre. Museo Energía La Ene. Buenos Aires, AR.

2015:   Capital Intervención. (Intervention Capital) Galería Luis Miró Quesada Garland. Lima, PE.

2014:   Del cuidado de la vida común. (On the care of common life) Galería 80m2. Lima, PE.

Collective exhibitions (selection):

2024:   Karachi Biennale, Karachi, PK.

La Tierra y El Mar. Fuxia 2, Malmo, SE.

The One Straw Revolution. Framer Framed, NL.

2023:   Shared Knowledge on Common Ground. ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE.

To be Named. Circuits and Currents, Athens, GR.

Atos de Empatia. Bienal de Fotografía de Porto, PT.

How long is an echo. Kubus Kooperativ. Hannover, DE.

Hold on to Dear Life. Sensefield Biennale 2023: Relationships in Uncertain Times. (Online: https://www.tinyverse.art/)

2022:   Learning from plants, rocks and waters. Soho Studios, Vienna, AT.

Seven Prototypes for Eco-Social Renewal. Silent Green, Berlin, DE.

Los ríos pueden existir sin aguas pero no sin orillas. MAC Lima, PE.

Hilos que resisten, hilos que subvierten. CC Peruano Británico, Lima, PE.

2021:   The School of the We. Rotor Contemporary, Graz, AT.

2020:  Femininos. Visualidades, Acoes, Afetos. Bienal de Mercosur, Porto Alegre, BR.

2019:   Hablar piedras. Espacio Espositivo, Madrid, ES.

2018: Bisagra Fashion Week, Kinderhook & Caracas, Berlín, DE.

Al pie de la letra. Galería Abierta Miraflores, Lima, PE.

Encuentro Nacional de Artes Visuales de Trujillo ENAVT 2018, Trujillo, PE.

2017:  Control 20. Laure Genillard, London, UK.

¡Ejemplos a seguir! Parque Cultural Valparaíso, CHI.

2016:  Sights and Sounds. Global film and video. Jewish Museum, New York, US. 

Rican/Struction Abraham Cruzvillegas con… Agustina Ferreyra Gallery, San Juan, PR.

Meer Teillen / Share More. Shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld, CH.

HOW 2 DO: being other, being real. Transart Triennal. Berlín, DE.

2014:   GETAFE IN Film Festival, Madrid, SP.

Reclaiming the useful, from modernism to self-builds in Latin America. Kontshall C, Stockholm. SW.

2015:  Area de juego. Ephemeral intervention at the Nouveau Festival. Centre Pompidou. Paris, FR.

Ecos de Huarochirí. National Library of Peru, Lima, PE.

2013:   Ruins in reverse. Project Space, TATE Modern, London. UK.

Artistic Residences:

2019:  PLANTA ALTA, Madrid, ES.

2018:   Gapado AIR, Jeju, KR (South Korea).

2017:   Capacete Entretenimientos, Athens, GR, Kassel, DE.

2016:   Sommerakademie in Zentrum Paul Klee. Bern, CH.

Meer Teilen – Share More. Zagreb, CR and Frauenfeld, CH.

The Return to Nature – A Pedagogy of Uncertainty (Study Days for the public program 32 Sao Paulo Biennale). Lamas, PE.

2014:   HAWAPI Project, Junín, PE.

2013:   AFUERA Project. Pisco, PE.

Collaborative Curatorial Projects:

2024 – 2020    Member and co-founder of the collective Mouries, Athens, GR.

2024 – 2014: Member and co-founder of the artist-run space Bisagra, Lima, PE.

2022:   Pivó Satélite nro 5 online  exhibitions curated with Florencia Portocarrero and Juan Diego Tobalina from Bisagra for Pivó, BR.

2019:  Invited curator Film Festival Al-Qamar, Al-Qamar. Wadi Rum desert, JO.

2017:  Dysfunctional Organ. Public program by Capacete residency, Athens, GR.

Open Encounters. Public program by Capacete residency, Athens, GR.

2014 – 2015: Coordinator for the Curatorial Team for the Permanent Exhibition at Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia y la Inclusión Social, Lima, PE.

Curatorial experience:

2024:   Perátis. Exploring the Exchanged Eractices of Midwives Between Capadoccia and Nea Ionia. Solo show of Vasilikí Sifostratoudaki. Or Art Space, Athens. GR.

Derecho de Vida. Tejiendo Vínculos Ecofeministas en el Perú. Centro Cultural de España, Lima. PE.

2021:   Lost and shared. Collective show at One Minute Space, Athens, GR.

2020:   Dejo este cuerpo ahí. Solo show Natalia Iguíñiz. Gonzáles Vigil Gallery, Lima, PE.

2017:   Las edades de la piedra. Anthological exhibition Silvia Westphalen. ICPNA, Lima, PE.

2009:   Lima Pavillion for the Bienal de Mediamatic Travel, Amsterdam, NE.

Awards:

2024:  Pixel, Bytes and Film. BMKöES, Austria.

2021:   Virtual Sanctuary for Fertilizing Mourning was one of the chosen 7 Projects for Eco Social Renewal by Driving the Human, DE.

2019:   Winner at the National Competition of Experimental Short Films, DAFO.

2014:   Award of Cinematographic Press Association. Festival de Cine Lima Independiente.

2013:    Winner at the National Competition of Experimental Short Films, DAFO.

Pedagogical experience:

2024:   Towards a Vulnerable Voice. Workshop guided with Yeorjia Karidi and Angelikí Tzortzakaki, organized by Mouries collective ad Fydani Space, Athens, GR.

2023:   Urban Teachings, shared memories and wishes. Eight To Oxtó. Athens, GR.

Creating and Imagining Beyond Stories of Erasure and Destruction. AUC, Cairo, EGY.

Co-creating Fertilizing Mourning. Online workshop for Sensefield Bienale 2023.

Pain Collectively Sung, Joys and Tears together we Hum. With Xanthoula Dakovanou. Organized by Mouries, at Fydani space, Athens, GR.

2022:   Co-creating Fertilizing Mourning. Workshop for 7 Prototypes for Eco-Social Renewal, organized by Driving the Human. Silent Green, Berlin, DE.

2021:   Aching places, screaming words, premonitory agreements. For KW, Berlin, DE.

Programa de destinos y presagios compartidos. Online and in Lima, PE.

Comunidad de Médiums. Retreat workshop at Goctalab, Amazonas, PE.

2020:   To look after a stranger’s urge. Online workshop for SOHO in Ottakring festival, AT.

2018:  Zimmer is our gallery. Workshop co-directed with Gabriel Hensche. Silba, CR.

 2017:  The island is our gallery. Workshop imparted with Gabriel Hensche. Silba, CR.

Rehearsing horizontalities. Circuits and Currents, Athens, GR.

2016 – 2010 Teacher at the Art Faculty of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

2016 – 2011 Teacher at Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo Corriente Alterna. Lima, PE.

2014:  Teacher at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes del Perú.

2014:  Workshop Exprime mi biblioteca. Organized by Taller de soluciones al paso. Lima, PE.

Artist talks and performative actions:

2024:   Fertilizing Mourning. Graz Museum, AT.

To change an Object for a Drawing. Fuxia 2, Malmo, SE.

2023:   Rehearsing Horizontalities. For the Evening School of Care. Lavandería a Vapore, Torino, IT.

The Care Council. PAF Performing Arts Forum, FR.

Virtual Sanctuary for Fertilizing Mourning. Project presentation organized by Decolonial Anthropology Society at Cambridge University, UK.

Virtual Sanctuary for Fertilizing Mourning, launch at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima, PE.

2022: Tales of loss and mourning, gestures for collective mending for Together the Parts. TanzQuartier, Vienna. AT.

2021: Considering belonging from our shared losses, building belonging through our shared mourning. Lecture for the conference Studies on Belonging, organized by NIAS, Amsterdam, NL.

A flying kiss thrown to the air (A guided meditation guided by a plant) for 21 Visions for Eco-Social Renewal – Driving the Human at Radialsystem, Berlin, DE.

2020: Diaries and chronicles and conversations on a struggling city. State of Concept, Athens, GR.

2019: Traced, whispered touch for Enchantées, curated by Alix Eunady. TanzQuartier, Vienna, AT.

On Hechizos and Humble Offerings (Reenchanting Objects for Disenchanting Worlds). Talk at SPINNING TRIANGLES – SAVVY Contemporary. Kinshasa, RDC.

2018: Lima – Atenas – Lima, Sobre instituciones viajeras y curadurías afectivas. Proyecto AMIL, Lima, PE.

Open Studio. Gapado Artist in Residence. Jeju, South Korea.

Presentation of Experiencing Connection Issues, a Capacete Athens publication. Capacete, Río, BR.

2017: Blurry crossroads, vibrant cartographies. For the Dysfunctional Organ public program. Circuits and Currents, Athens, GR.

Disposable futures, recycled desires. For the program Open Encounters. Circuits and Currents, Athens, GR.

The slang to cum, for the Paros Poetry and Translation Symposium, Beton7, Athens, GR.

2016: Where do I stand? What do I want? Sommerakademie in ZPK. Kunsthalle Bern, CH.

What Is Good Life? Shed im Eisemwerk. Frauenfeld, CH.

Editorial work and collaboration in publications:

2024:    Re-Worlding Through Mourning. A Conversation with Artist and Scholar Eliana Otta on her Project, «Virtual Sanctuary for Fertilizing Mourning» (Interview). Studies in Social Justice, Vol. 18 No. 4 (2024): Reckoning, Repairing, Reworlding: The (In)humanities, Artistic Practices, and Planetary Crisis. 

2023:   Caring for Mourning, Working with Loss. Curating, Listening and Attending to the Sacred in Peruvian Highlands and Forest. For Curating with Care, edited by Elke Krasny and Lara Perry. London: Routledge.

The “Retablos” wait for your demands! Community building through feminist artivism amidst lethal repression in Peru. (2023). Alternautas, 10(2), 119-150.

Una Constelación de Preguntas y Provocaciones sobre el Futuro, Siguiendo Resonancias de Encuentros Pasados. Caos, published by Cosmos, CH.

2022:   (Re)generated bonds through collective mourning amid local and planetary crisis. For Texte Zur Kunst #126. Europrint: Berlin, DE.

Manifesto: Fertilizing Mourning, Global South’s Offering to a World in Flames, for Journal of Greek Media and Culture (Oct, 2022),

2022:   Vital Vocabulary published by Meier Ramírez, Lima, PE.

2021:   Lucía tiene calle. Children’s book published by PESOPLUMA.

2020:   Vital Vocabulary. Published by ecoversities.org

2018:   Co-writing of the text Extreme violence in museums of memory: the place of memory in Peru, for the book The Andean World, with Ponciano del Pino, published by Routledge World Series.

Text Cosiendo el cuerpo propio, el propio con el ajeno, lo propio con lo que nos es ajeno, for the book Gefilde/ Scenery/ Escenarios, edited by INK PRESS, Zurich, CH. (Launch: 26/03/18)

2018 – 2014:  Part of the editorial committee for Bisagra magazine. Bisagra, Lima, PE.

2017:  Bringing clues from the future into the present (in the shape of a book, a lunch or a theatre play) interview to Stavros Stavrides for the magazine Re-visiones (www.re-visiones.net)

A few thoughts about a (Yet) non-existing Film, text for Control Magazine, Issue 20. Edited by Stephan Willats, UK

Text for the book Las edades de la piedra. Silvia Westphalen, edited by ICPNA, Lima, PE.

2016:  Essay Proyecto 1980-2000: del tiempo como herencia al tiempo suspendido, for the book Dando cuenta, testimonios sobre la violencia política. Fondo Editorial PUCP, Lima, PE.

Complementary experience:

2012:   Member of the Jury for the National Prize of Culture, organized by the Ministry of Culture.

2012 – 2004 Owner of Pulga la tienda, a young fashion designers shop in Lima.