BIOGRAPHY          

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*1985 in Lima - Peru

Education:

2012:                     
Masters degree, Meisterschülerin of Prof. Candice Breitz, HBK
2011:                     
Diploma degree in Video / Performance by Prof. Candice Breitz, HBK
2006 - 2011:          
Visual Art Studies at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig (HBK) by Prof. Candice Breitz, Guy Ben-Ner, Thomas Virnich and Vera Bourgeois
2005- 2006:  
Art History, University of Cologne 

Selected Performances and exhibitions:

2014:
- Ist da Wer? Performance Festival, Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel
- 40 guest names, Beatbox Performance at the annual meeting of the Kunstverein   Wolfenbüttel
- aus Dauer, Performance with artist group DIE KNETEN,100° Festival, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin (Audience Award)

- Fast forward, Beatbox Performance with artist band "Pirol", Staatstheater Braunschweig
2013:  
- The Fear at the Slapstick!Night, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE
- Kann man sie bedienen? Performance, Barbie Dreamhouse, Berlin
- Watching a cat watching a mouse hole,  Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, DE
-  Between the lines, group show, Michaelis University Gallery, Kapstadt, South Africa
2012:
- Sameness, otherness, Bienal Internacional Performance DEFORMES, Santiago, Chile 
- The city as a stage, Solo show, Junge Kunst e.V., Wolfsburg, DE
2011
- Keine gute Tat, Performance with Markus G. Brinkmann, Kunstverein Hildesheim, DE
2010:
- Show VI, MMX-Open Art Venue, Berlin, DE
- Blauverschiebung, International Performance Art Festival, Leipzig, DE
- Indexing You, Performance, Gallery PG LAB Berlin, DE
- 7 Songs, group show, Galeria KKB, Barcelona, Spain
- Pop Aktivismus, Performance, Phantomschaltung - Gallery weekend, Berlin, DE
2009:
- Performance // Frame, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt am Main, DE
- Glow, Performance, BeHandlungsraum, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, DE
- Playing the City,  group show, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2008:
- Parasit, Ausstellungsprojekt der Klasse Breitz, im Satellit - Raum für Junge Kunst Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt am Main, DE

 

Selected Videography:

2014:
- Dirty Minds – reading below the frame, Rooster Gallery, New York, USA
- No Thing Is My King,  Kunstverein Hildesheim, Germany 
2013:
- You and me everyday, VHS Filmfestival Rotterdam, Holland
- Powtórka z Performance Projekcja, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
- “Liquid Crystals “ by “I SEE – International Videoart Festival”, Organhaus Art Space,             Chongqing,  A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu, Rockbund Art Museum, 

     Shanghai, WhereWhere Art Space, Beijing, China    
- Undisclosed Territory, Laboratorium Performance Art, Plesungan Solo, Indonesia 
- “(NO) PUBLIC SPACE”, Frappant Galerie, Hamburg, DE
2012:
- “You and me, everyday”, in der (e) merge art fair, Washington, USA
- "Greener on the other side”, International Video Art Festival, Kallio Kunsthalle, Helsinki, FI
 
- “Berliner”, Videoscreening, Goethe Institute, New York, USA
- “Looking for your speech”, Manzara Perspectives Galerie, Istambul, Turkey
- “Stadt(t)Räume - Szenografien des Urbanen”, Kölnischer Kunstverein, DE
- “Suben Empujen Estrujen Bajen”, El Galpon Espacio Cultural, Lima, Peru
2011:
- “STOP PAINTING”, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China
- “Performance Post Appropriation”,The Nightingale Theatre,  Milkwaukee ,USA
2009:
- "Liquid Crystals" in "Video Visions", TV show Edith- Ruth Haus für Medienkunst, DE