Renata Zas
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Renata Zas

Contemporary art curator & researcherBuenos Aires, Argentina
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Renata Zas

Contemporary art curator & researcherBuenos Aires, Argentina
About me
I am an art researcher & curator based in Buenos Aires & working globally. I am currently working as a freelancer, engineering an alternative pedagogy workshop for visiting contemporary art exhibitions, assessing people in contemporary art acquisitions and assessing artists 1-1 for their career projection. I also developed since 2023, a series of exhibitions titled ARTE EN ARQUITECTURA (art in architecture) which combine art, design and contemporary architecture, altogether in a project that invites people to stay for a little longer than in a regular exhibition. I am interested in collaboration & horizontality as work methodologies. My main topic of research is how our sensitive and empathic capacities are mutating due to the ongoing digital evolution. I am open to meet new partners with whom to grow & develop projects internationally. My practice is influenced by curator and writer Rafael Cippolini, philosopher and media theorist Franco «Bifo» Berardi, and therapist Daiana Dominguez, among many others. Thus, I have worked as Cippolini’s assistant curator and have travelled to Italy for further exchange with Berardi both in person, as well as virtually.
Work history
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    Content writer for A-LINEA-LINE
    London, United KingdomFreelance
    A-LINE is a new international online platform providing high-quality contemporary content about cultural scenes worldwide. Research & Curating of contemporary art projects for A-LINE’s members + Content writing about Buenos Aires, Mexico & Brazil art scenes. PR with galleries in Buenos Aires.
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    Research assistant for Verónica RossiVeronica Rossi
    Buenos Aires, ArgentinaFreelance
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Skills
  • Curating
  • Creativity
  • Writing
  • Contemporary art
  • Studio Assistance
  • Research
  • Administrative Assistance
Education
    Goldsmiths, University of London logo
    Goldsmiths, University of London logo
    MAGoldsmiths, University of London
     - London, United Kingdom
    I studied a Masters in Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London between 2016 & 2017. My dissertation topic was about digital anthropology and the mutation of our sensitive and empathic capacities due to the digital evolution. This subject matter has become my topic of research which I had continued after my masters by participating at the SFSIA programme in Praxis and Poeisis in Cognitive Capitalism (Berlin, July 2018) and winning a travel grant from the National Arts Fund (Fondo Nacional de las Artes Argentina) for travelling to Italy and meeting Franco Bifo Berardi & doing studios visits in Milan, Rome and Turin. The whole investigation remains unpublished though two articles related to the topic have been released: -October 2019 – How to make sense of a life surrounded by cognitive mining? Published in Veronica Draexler’s catalogue Post-Everything Ritualism and Hypernaturality July 2019 - Renata Zas, Fibers. Voice, Skin and Earth, Bulletin #20. July 2019 © Droste Effect Publication curated by Vincenzo Estremo & Matilde Soligno, and edited by Matilde Soligno
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    Post-graduate programme for artists, art critics & curatorsUniversidad Torcuato Di Tella
     - Buenos Aires, Argentina
    I participated as a fellow of the "Artists Programme", founded by curator Inés Katzenstein at Torcuato Di Tella University (UTDT). My final exhibition project was: "En contra del instinto. Referencias internas (Against the instinct. Internal references)". Participating artists: Iumi Kataoka, Jazmín Saidman, Jair Jesús Toledo and Dana Ferrari
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Awards
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    FellowSFSIA Berlin
    I obtained a scholarship from the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin for assisting to the "Art and the Poetics of Praxis in Cognitive Capitalism" programme at Spike Art Quarterly, Berlin, Germany.
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    BECAR Travel grantFondo Nacional de las Artes
    I was awarded with a travel grant from BECAR Fondo Nacional de las Artes (National Funding for the Arts Argentina) to travel to Italy with research purposes, in order to meet Franco ´Bifo´ Berardi in Italy.