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Imayna Caceres is an artist, writer and curator from Peru, whose work focuses on the making of meaning in community, Andean/Amazonian heritages and practices of regeneration, joy and kinship towards social justice. Living in Vienna since 2008, she is a graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with a background on Sociology and is part of the TRENZA collective, a group of women with ties to Latin America. Her latest works Geography of Selves/ Roots in the Dark (2019) and Condor, Puma, Serpiente (2018) are in dialogue with her curatorial projects: The Ritual (2018), Back/s Together: Gloria Anzaldúa, her drawings, our connection to her (2018), A Look Back Into the Museum (2016) all with Verena Melgarejo Weinandt, Intervention of a Columbus Statue in Vienna (2017) with TRENZA, Decolonial Borderlands (2017) with Sophie Utikal, Anti*colonial Fantasies/ Decolonial Strategies (2016) which was also published as book, with Sunanda Mesquita and Sophie Utikal, and Who is Afraid of The Museum? (2015) with Verena Melgarejo Weinandt, Marissa Lôbo and Pêdra Costa.
imayna.caceres at gmail.com
EDUCATION
Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien
Art and Cultural Sciences
Finishing work with Prof. Ruth Sonderegger
2019
Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien
Class of Postconceptual Art Practices, Prof. Marina Grzinic.
Main work with advise of Prof. Gin Müller
2019
Universitat de Barcelona, Facultad de Belles Arts
Erasmus Exchange, Department of Visual Arts, Prof. Tjaša Kancler
2013
Universidad PUCP Lima, Facultad de Sociología
Graduated with a focus on Sociology of Culture
2005
Universidad de Lima, Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación
Graduated with a focus on Communication for Social Transformation, Journalism, Design.
2002
COLLABORATION AND COLLECTIVE PROJECTS
2018 'The Ritual' curated exhibition in print format for Parabol Magazine. Curated with Verena Melgarejo Weinandt. In connection to Rotor Center for Contemporary Art Graz. Magazine
2018 '(Towards a critique of) Aesthetics as a byproduct of colonial capitalism'. herr*krit workshop, Kassel University. With Ruth Sonderegger.
2018 Back/s Together: Gloria Anzaldúa, her drawings, our connections to her. VBKÖ, Vienna. Curated with Verena Melgarejo Weinandt.
2017 Book 'Anticolonial Fantasies, Decolonial Strategies.' With Sunanda Mesquita and Sophie Utikal.
2017 Decolonial Borderlands / Reflecting colonialism in the Art Academy.
Rundgang of the Akademie of Fine Arts Vienna. Curated with Sophie Utikal.
2017 Anticolonial Autohistorias. Performance with Verena Melgarejo Weinandt. Bildende, Vienna
2016 Anti*colonial Fantasies, Decolonial Strategies at Friday Exit, Vienna
2016 A Look Back Into The Museum. Lecture performance, Exhibit, Vienna
2015 'Territory' Exhibition at Blutengasse 9 off-space. Vienna
2015 Who is Afraid Of The Museum? / We Har Angst Vor Dem Museum?
Intervention at the Weltmuseum, part of Wienwoche Festival.
Curated with Verena Melgarejo Weinandt, Pêdra Costa and Marissa Lôbo.
2014 Bildpunkt 'Exitstrategien'. Künstlerische Positionen/ Bildstrecke: Katherine Ball, Katarzyna Winiecka und Imayna Caceres mit Refugee Protest Vienna
2014 Trenza Collective, an interweaving of desires, ideas, needs and experiences marked by a Latinamerican migratory experience
2013 Wahlwexel jetzt. Voting action for non-citizens in Vienna.
http://www.profil.at/articles/1339
2013 Utopia of Alliances, Conditions of Impossibilities and the Vocabulary of Decoloniality.
Book publication with several other artists and critics.
2013 Your comfort is my silence. Performance and art a(u)ction for third country students.
With Marissa Lôbo, Joanna Wilk, Verena Melgarejo Weinandt and Miriam Raggam.
With the support of the pcap class. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aaaar
2013 Where do you come from? Collaboration with Verena Melgarejo
2012 Bleibeführer_in Wien Guide for refugees and asylum seekers who stay to live in Vienna
http://bleibefuehrerinwien.blogspot.co.at
http://www.labournet.de/internationales/oesterreich
http://www.wienwoche.org/de/121/
2012 Intervention, please! Database of problematic history-politics sites in public space. Work group History-Politics, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2012 Aus mit länder. 'Foreigners/Off with countries' music workshops in the Festival Soho in Ottakring
2012 Was ist dein story? Festival Soho in Ottakring
http://deinestory.blogspot.co.at
2012 The art a(u)ction as destruction of structural discriminations by AAAAR Artists and Activists A(u)ction Against Racism. Performance and art a(u)ction for third country students. A predecessor of the current auction of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Initiated with Joanna Wilk, Miriam Raggam and Ekoj. Organized also with Seraina Renz.
With the support of the pcap class. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aaaar
2012 Kunst-Theorie-Aktivismus. Strategische Verbindungen für antidiskriminatorische Praxen: Lecture with the Darker Side of the Academy, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2011 The darker side of the academy. Intervention, installation, workshop, tour. Work group The Darker Side of The Academy.
2011 Center and Periphery, as part of City Fest Wochen, Hohermarkt Square
2011 Monument to the Provision of a Research Fund. Workshop with the Platform Geschichtspolitik
2011 Telenovela: disintegrating migration. Work group Telenovela. In collaboration with Maiz, Foro Interkulturalität y Migrawood.
2010 Wien Bildlich, City Festwochen. Permanent installation. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna
2010 Unconditional Admittance. Audio-performance at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2010 Painted Mural for the E. Stiftung, Vienna
2009 Invaded spaces: Smik. Exhibition at Walking Chair Gallery, Vienna
Imayna Caceres is an artist, writer and curator from Peru, whose work focuses on the making of meaning in community, Andean/Amazonian heritages and practices of regeneration, joy and kinship towards social justice. Living in Vienna since 2008, she is a graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with a background on Sociology and is part of the TRENZA collective, a group of women with ties to Latin America. Her latest works Geography of Selves/ Roots in the Dark (2019) and Condor, Puma, Serpiente (2018) are in dialogue with her curatorial projects: The Ritual (2018), Back/s Together: Gloria Anzaldúa, her drawings, our connection to her (2018), A Look Back Into the Museum (2016) all with Verena Melgarejo Weinandt, Intervention of a Columbus Statue in Vienna (2017) with TRENZA, Decolonial Borderlands (2017) with Sophie Utikal, Anti*colonial Fantasies/ Decolonial Strategies (2016) which was also published as book, with Sunanda Mesquita and Sophie Utikal, and Who is Afraid of The Museum? (2015) with Verena Melgarejo Weinandt, Marissa Lôbo and Pêdra Costa.
imayna.caceres at gmail.com
EDUCATION
Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien
Art and Cultural Sciences
Finishing work with Prof. Ruth Sonderegger
2019
Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien
Class of Postconceptual Art Practices, Prof. Marina Grzinic.
Main work with advise of Prof. Gin Müller
2019
Erasmus Exchange, Department of Visual Arts, Prof. Tjaša Kancler
2013
Universidad PUCP Lima, Facultad de Sociología
Graduated with a focus on Sociology of Culture
2005
Universidad de Lima, Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación
Graduated with a focus on Communication for Social Transformation, Journalism, Design.
2002
COLLABORATION AND COLLECTIVE PROJECTS
2018 'The Ritual' curated exhibition in print format for Parabol Magazine. Curated with Verena Melgarejo Weinandt. In connection to Rotor Center for Contemporary Art Graz. Magazine
2018 '(Towards a critique of) Aesthetics as a byproduct of colonial capitalism'. herr*krit workshop, Kassel University. With Ruth Sonderegger.
2018 'Go Back To Where You Came From' Performance with Sophie Utikal. Fluc, Vienna
2017 Book 'Anticolonial Fantasies, Decolonial Strategies.' With Sunanda Mesquita and Sophie Utikal.
2017 Decolonial Borderlands / Reflecting colonialism in the Art Academy.
Rundgang of the Akademie of Fine Arts Vienna. Curated with Sophie Utikal.
2017 Anticolonial Autohistorias. Performance with Verena Melgarejo Weinandt. Bildende, Vienna
2016 A Look Back Into The Museum. Lecture performance, Exhibit, Vienna
2015 'Territory' Exhibition at Blutengasse 9 off-space. Vienna
2015 Who is Afraid Of The Museum? / We Har Angst Vor Dem Museum?
Intervention at the Weltmuseum, part of Wienwoche Festival.
Curated with Verena Melgarejo Weinandt, Pêdra Costa and Marissa Lôbo.
2014 Zona Intrusa 7 Artistic educational project in Mataró, Barcelona
2014 Bildpunkt 'Exitstrategien'. Künstlerische Positionen/ Bildstrecke: Katherine Ball, Katarzyna Winiecka und Imayna Caceres mit Refugee Protest Vienna
2014 Trenza Collective, an interweaving of desires, ideas, needs and experiences marked by a Latinamerican migratory experience
http://www.profil.at/articles/1339
Book publication with several other artists and critics.
2013 Your comfort is my silence. Performance and art a(u)ction for third country students.
With Marissa Lôbo, Joanna Wilk, Verena Melgarejo Weinandt and Miriam Raggam.
With the support of the pcap class. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aaaar
2012 Bleibeführer_in Wien Guide for refugees and asylum seekers who stay to live in Vienna
http://bleibefuehrerinwien.blogspot.co.at
http://www.labournet.de/internationales/oesterreich
http://www.wienwoche.org/de/121/
2012 Intervention, please! Database of problematic history-politics sites in public space. Work group History-Politics, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2012 Was ist dein story? Festival Soho in Ottakring
http://deinestory.blogspot.co.at
2012 The art a(u)ction as destruction of structural discriminations by AAAAR Artists and Activists A(u)ction Against Racism. Performance and art a(u)ction for third country students. A predecessor of the current auction of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Initiated with Joanna Wilk, Miriam Raggam and Ekoj. Organized also with Seraina Renz.
With the support of the pcap class. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aaaar
2012 Kunst-Theorie-Aktivismus. Strategische Verbindungen für antidiskriminatorische Praxen: Lecture with the Darker Side of the Academy, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2011 Work group History-Politics (Plattform Geschichtspolitik), an open collective of students, activists and teachers associated with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna reflecting and publicly dealing with the Academy’s participation in Colonialism, (Austro-)Fascism and Nazism.
2011 ‘Community’ Installation for DIS PLAY at Reumannplatz, Vienna
2011 Center and Periphery, as part of City Fest Wochen, Hohermarkt Square
2011 Monument to the Provision of a Research Fund. Workshop with the Platform Geschichtspolitik
2011 Telenovela: disintegrating migration. Work group Telenovela. In collaboration with Maiz, Foro Interkulturalität y Migrawood.
2010 Wien Bildlich, City Festwochen. Permanent installation. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna
2010 Unconditional Admittance. Audio-performance at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2010 Painted Mural for the E. Stiftung, Vienna
2009 Invaded spaces: Smik. Exhibition at Walking Chair Gallery, Vienna
