Press release
Selected artists at our first call for residencies and grants for creation
We now know the names of the artists selected in the first call for artists’ residencies and grants for creation córdoba ciudad de las idea. It was a great success of participation for
which, above all, we would like to thank you. In less than a month, the time the call has been open, we have received more than 700 applications from all over the world. A response that shows the interest that Cordoba awakens as a city of culture. And which we consider, most of all, to be a success for our city.
We have received applications from France, Mexico, the United States, Morocco, Poland, Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Syria, Turkey, Thailand…
A jury of renowned prestigious architects, curators, archaeologists, artists, writers,
collectors, teachers… has been in charge of selecting, among all the interesting proposals
received, those that are going to be developed in Cordoba between the next months of
April and June.
Once the jury’s deliberations have been completed and the selected artists have been
informed, we are pleased to inform you of the results of the voting:
List of selected artists and projects
Artist: José Álvaro Perdices
Project: A propósito de un tercer patio. Project de investigación sobre arte y paisajismo
Country: España
Artist: Rebeca Wolfe
Project: Searching for Lubna
Country: Reino Unido
Artist: Victoria Riva
Project: La Bailarina de las olas
Country: México-España
Artist: Alejandro Simón
Project: Versión oficial
Country: España
Artist: Rocío Cerón
Project: Miiuni: Fluctuaciones Transmediales del Paisaje
Country: México
Artist: Bruno Galindo
Project: Registro sonoro sobre los patios de Córdoba
Country: España
Artist: Virginia Bersabé
Project: Y cuando vuelvo a mirar. Luciana Centeno
Country: España
Artist: Robert Lisek
Project: Talking to others
Country: Polonia
Artist: Anne Borrie
Project: El paraíso futuro
Country: Nueva Zelanda
Artist: Juan Vilá
Project: Tan difícil como raro
Country: España
Artist: Silvia Favaretto
Project: Casa Florecida
Artist: Cecilia García – Giralda Rodríguez
Project: XXX
Artist: Juan Cantizzani
Project: Looking back – Rita Rutkowski
Artist: Jose María Martín García
Project: Inventario de espacios cardinales
Artist: Juan Velasco
Project: Electronic flamenco sketches
Artist: Alfonso Aroca
Project: Impulso
Artist: María Alonso Ayala
Project: Colección lírica de Ramón Medina Hidalgo
Artist: Juan Diego Calzada
Project: Bestia Sagrada de Isabel Do Diego
Artist: Teresa Rivera Lora
Project: Escalera y manta
Artist: Isabel Filardi Cano
Project: Arte fluído
Artist: Angeles Alcántara Sánchez
Project: Las casas de los azulejos. Nuevas prácticas artísticas híbridas contemporáneas
Artist: Antonio Raso
Project: Barrios vaciados
Artist: Irene Zamora Martínez, Imbar Natura y Tanja Uveric
Project: El tendedero
Members of the jury
HONORARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES:
Borja Casani, Editor, art curator and cultural manager
Francesca Thyssen, President of the TBA21 collection. Contemporary art collector
José Guirao, Director de la Fundación Montemadrid. Gestor cultural
Oscar Fernández, Coordinador Sala Exposiciones Vimcorsa y Centro de Arte Pepe Espaliú
Piluca Querol, Directora Andalucía Film Commission
ACADEMIA córdoba ciudad de las ideas:
PLASTIC AND VISUAL ARTS
Christian Domínguez, Art Curator
Nieves Galiot, Visual artist and teacher.
Marisa Vadillo, Doctor in Fine Arts, University of Seville. Artist and teacher.
LITERATURE, HUMANITIES AND COMICS
Gabriel Núñez Hervás, writer and journalist.
Javier Mohedano, Professor of IES Averroes.
Juan Carlos Reche, Director of the Cervantes Institute in Rome. Translator and poet.
PERFORMING ARTS AND MUSIC
Javier Latorre, National Dance Prize 2011. Dancer
Juan Miguel Moreno Calderón, member of the Royal Academy of Cordoba and the Social Council of the University of Cordoba. Professor of piano.
Mercedes Tirado, Culture Technician at the Cordoba Provincial Council. Actress
CULTURAL MANAGEMENT AND CITY PROJECTS
Ana Zamorano, Member of the Board of Directors of the Medina Azahara Archaeological Ensemble. Archaeologist
Curro Crespo, founding member of the AMASCE cooperative and promoter of Espacioplástico. Architect
Lola Baena, Director of the Archaeological Museum of Cordoba and member of the Spanish ICOM Committee.
INNOVATION AND CULTURAL INDUSTRIES
José Flowing, DJ Turnablist and skateboarder. Urban artist
Kisko García, Chef Estrella Michelín Restaurante Choco.
María Van Den Eynde, Director of Flora. Cultural manager
The designer Palomo Spain has also been very close to the whole team although he was unable to join us at the end of the deliberations as the date overlapped with his trip to Paris as a candidate for the Louis Vuitton Awards. Palomo will not miss our next edition though, which will also include Mar Delgado, the Rector’s Delegate for International Projection and Luis Medina, Vice Rector for Culture, Communication and Social Projection at the University of Cordob. Their schedules prevented them from joining us on this occasion as well.
Thank you for trusting córdoba city of ideas in the way that, with your overwhelming
participation, you have done.