Descripción del Profesional del arte
Paz Ponce (Cádiz, 1985, Spain) is an independent culture producer, writer & researcher of contemporary artistic creation, actively involved in culture exchange networks between Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. With a background in art history (Universidad Complutense, Madrid / Freie Universität, Berlin), she investigates the collective context in which art is produced and mediated, with a special focus on self-organization, culture of cooperativism and biographical research. She specializes in the development of process-oriented formats such as archival and research exhibition projects, art in residency programs, learning platforms and professional networks, collaborating with: NON Gallery, Galerie Wedding, Agora Collective e.V., ZK/U, 48 Neukölln — in Berlin; Casa Tomada (São Paulo, BR), B-Tours Festival (Tel Aviv, IR), Cinema Lumbardhi (Prizren, KV), Laboratorio Artístico de San Agustín (LASA) & Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam (Havana, CU), Esplanade – Theaters on the Bay (Singapore, SG), Academy of the Arts (Szczecin, PL).
Since 2018 she works with Club Real devising participatory dramaturgies within contextual art projects (13 Havana Biennial, CU; Impulse Theater Festival, DE). In 2017 she founded with Eran Eizenhamer The Dreamers Platform – For projects engaging dreams, public space & participation in art (Israel / Germany).
She has a wide experience in the management of arts organizations (fundraising, bookkeeping, coordination, programming, communication & PR Strategies, legal forms & bureaucracy), roles which she alternates through her involvement in Calipsofacto Projects (s.2008, Madrid, co-founder) berlinerpool arts network (2013-2017 Chief Curator), Agora Collective e.V. (2014-2020, Coordinator & Artistic co-director), ¡n[s]urgênc!as: Platform for socially conscious artistic practices & activist positions from Latin America (s. 2018, Berlin, Founder & Artistic director), neue Häute e.V – project space at Uferstudios (2020 co-founder & artistic co-director).
She lectures on curatorial research methods and communication of artistic practice at Node Center for Curatorial Studies in Berlin (s.2016), and is an external consultant of the Erasmus + Program: “Curating in Context” (2019-2021). As an editor she has published with LASA a monograph on contextual artistic practices in Cuba. Currently she is developing a new editorial project: “Textos Minúsculos – Editorial” | “Winzige Texte – Verlag” — a bilingual collection of publications on art, criticism & contemporary thinking.
Exposición. 19 nov de 2024 - 02 mar de 2025 / Museo Nacional del Prado / Madrid, España
Formación. 23 nov de 2024 - 29 nov de 2024 / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) / Madrid, España