Bio:

Eliana Otta Vildoso (Lima, 1981) Licenciada en Arte y Magíster en Estudios Culturales por la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fue la coordinadora del Equipo Curatorial para la exposición permanente del Lugar de la Memoria, Tolerancia e Inclusión Social. Ha sido docente en la Facultad de Arte de la PUCP, Corriente Alterna y la Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes del Perú. Cofundadora del espacio de artistas Bisagra . Actualmente cursa el programa Phd in Practice en la Academia de Bellas Artes de Viena.

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Eliana Otta Vildoso (Lima, 1981) has a degree in art and a Master in Cultural Studies by the Universidad Católica del Perú. She cofounded the artist-run space Bisagra. She coordinated the curatorial team for the permanent exhibition at 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. Since October, 2018, is a candidate for the Phd in Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

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CV (short version): 

Education:

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

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

PhD candidate / PhD-in-practice, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

Solo exhibitions (selection):

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.

2011:   Tierra de Nadie. (No one´s land) Galería 80m2, Lima, PE.

2010:   Cambio de Casa. (Changing home) Lugar a dudas, Cali, CO.

2009:   Tacoralandia. Municipal Library of El Porvenir, Lima, PE.

Collective exhibitions (selection):

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.

Zur nachahmung empfohlen! Expeditionen in asthetik und nachaltigkeit. Marstall Schwerin, 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.

Reopening the black box of technology. MAC, Lima, PE

Lima 04. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima, PE

2012:   The Camino Real Arcades. Centro Comercial Camino Real, Lima, PE

¿Y qué si la democracia ocurre? Galería 80m2, Lima, PE

2011:   El placer es más importante que la victoria. Tasneem Gallery, Barcelona, SP.

Numina Femenina/Latin women in the arts. Gallery of the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco, US.

En algún lugar de esta otra ciudad. Galería La Central, Bogotá, CO.

Festival Internacional de Video Arte Almirante Brown. Buenos Aires, AR.

2010:   Mash Up, arte en choque fuga. Centro Cultural de España, Lima.

Piratería Sentimental II. La Residencia, Bogotá. CO.

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.

2010: Juanchaco, Ladrilleros y La Barra. Organized by Helena Producciones. Buenaventura, CO.

2009:   Invited curator for the Lima Pavillion, Mediamatic Travel Biennale, Amsterdam. NL.

Collaborative Curatorial Projects:

2022-2014: 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 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.

2006 – 2010 Member of the artist-run spaces La Culpable and La Casa Rosa, Lima, PE

Awards:

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.

2012:  Winner at the National Competition of Short Films, DAFO.

2011:  2^nd Prize Concurso de la Amistad Peruano Africana.

Winner of Experimental Category. Filmocorto, Festival de Cine de Lima.

 Pedagogical experience:

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.

2007:  Zine workshop for the MDE07 International Encounter of Contemporary Art. Medellín, CO.

Editorial work and collaboration in publications:

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.

2010:  Biblioteca del amigo limeño, article for Pulgar # 26.edited by MUSAC, Spain.

2009:  Lima se anima. Co-edition with Rodrigo Quijano, commissioned by Ramona magazine, Buenos Aires, AR.

2007:  Part of the editorial committee for Juanacha magazine. La Culpable, Lima.

2006 – 2004: Part of the editorial committee for Prótesis magazine. Art Faculty, PUCP, Lima.

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.

Bibliography (selection):

2017:   Eliana Otta. Palabras de Mujeres. By Max Hernandez. El Comercio 21/03/17

2016:   Katja Baumhoff and Rebekka Ray. Meer teilen: Share more. Text for the            exhibition at Shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld, CH.

2015:   Cepeda, Gaby. Lima 100pre. Curatorial text for the solo show at the Museo de Energía LA ENE, Buenos Aires.

Hernandez, Max. La ciudad que queremos. El Comercio. 29/07

Villacorta, Jorge. Curatorial text for the solo show Capital Intervención.

2014:   Buntinx, Gustavo y Vich, Víctor. Sombras coloniales. Trabas para imaginar la   comunidad. ReVista. Harvard Review of América. Fall.

Hare, Andrés. El jardín simbólico de Eliana Otta. La Mula, 22/11.

Peña, Paulo César. El vigía invisible. La mula, 07/06.

2013:   Frigeri, Flavia y Lerner, Sharon. Ruins in reverse. Exhibition Catalogue. TATE   Gallery, Londres.

López Miguel. Lima 04. Exhibition Catalogue. MAC, Lima.

2011:   López, Miguel. Sonidos imaginarios. Perú21, Lima, 12/01.

2010:   Giraldo, José Tomás. De Miraflores a Granada. En: Eliana Otta. Cambio de Casa. Catalogue for the solo show, produced by La Sultana for Lugaradudas.