Estefanía Landesmann
area: Visual arts, photography, installation
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Argentinaarea
Visual arts, photography, installationresidence
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September 2022 - October 2022Estefanía Landesmann is a Buenos Aires born visual artist working with photography. She holds a BA in Design from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and a Post-diploma from the independent art program Programa de Artistas from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina. She received grants to be a resident artist in Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden (2016), and Hangar Research Center, Lisbon (2017). In 2018 she moved to Berlin thanks to a fellowship from the National Fund for the Arts (AR), to attend the class of Josephine Pryde in UdK Universität der Künste Berlin.
Among others, she was nominated for the BRAQUE Prize 2015 (coordinated by Palais de Tokyo), AAMEC Premio de Fotografía Museo Emilio Caraffa, Córdoba, 2018, Premio Illa Fotografía 2015 (MACRO, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma); and recognized in the LXX Salón Nacional de Rosario Castagnino-Macro 2016, Premio Federico Klemm, 2015 and Premio Fundación Williams, 2014. In 2015 her project Cuerpo de Obra was awarded and funded by the Bienal de Arte Joven de Buenos Aires. In 2018 she won the 2nd Prize in Photography of the National Award for Visual Arts, AR.
Most recently she received grants from Stiftung Kunstfonds, and awarded a permanent studio by the Berliner BBK Atelierförderprogramm.
She has shown internationally at Düsseldorf photo+ Biennale of Visual and Sonic Media (2022), Lehmann+Silva Gallery, Porto (solo, 2022), BF20 Bienal de Fotografía Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal (2021); Studio for Artistic Research, Düsseldorf (2020), MNBA Buenos Aires National Museum of Fine Arts (2019); Museum für Fotografie Berlin (2018); MACBA Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires (2018); D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig (2018); Casa Fernandini, Lima (2017); among others.
She currently lives and works in Berlin.
During my time as a resident artist in Viena, I want to profit from the multiplicity of museums in the city to continue researching on forms of representation developed and used over the course of time. This not only refers to the images and objects from different periods that constitute particular collections, but also to the systems and means employed by the museums themselves to present and explain them to a prospective viewer. (...) I’m interested in documenting objects, images, spaces, and exhibition systems that were intentionally created with the purpose of explaining something abstract or inaccessible to the eye. The quest of representing the world, to give meaning, is in such museums a layered construction between the intentions enclosed in the original objects on display and the attempt of the institution to situate them to a curious observer.
The possible meaning enclosed in materials and objects found in urban spaces, and how it’s transformed through the fragmentation and fictionalization characteristic of the photographic medium it’s a topic on which I’ve based my practice over the last years, and that I wish to investigate further.