about me
gastón ramírez
Date and place of birth:
October 3, 1972, Tepic, Mexico.
Citizenship:
Mexican, Italian.
E-mail:
_studies_
1979-84
Elementary: Colegio Anahuac Garibaldi Guadalajara, Mexico.
1984-87
Secondary: Escuela Secundaria Tecnica N° 50 Guadalajara, Mexico.
1992-94
High School: Preparatoria SEP, Guadalajara, Mexico.
1996-01
University: Degree in Visual Arts, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2002-04
M.A. : Design and Production of Visual Arts, Università IUAV, Venice, Italy.
_courses and seminars_
2006
Participation in the Advanced Curse in Visual Arts, imparted by Marjetica Potrc, Foundation Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy.
2001
Participation in the Curse Unipersonal Theater, imparted by Miguel Rivera, S.C. Theatre Academy, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Participation in the course Playback Theatre, imparted by Robert Osborne, S.C. Theatre Academy, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2000
Participation in the International Congress of Students and Visual Arts Professors. Superior Art Institute, La Habana, Cuba.
Participation in the symposium University and Creativity, Guadalajara University. Guadalajara, Mexico.
1999
Participation in the international symposium of conservation and restoration of cultural monuments ICOMOS 99, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Course Workshop of Actoral improvement, imparted by Fausto Ramírez, ITESO University, Guadalajara, Mexico.
1998
Course of wood and marble carving, Scuola di scultura AVS, Turin, Italy.
Courses Introduction to the language and film narratives and Neo Romantic tendencies of author’s cinema, imparted by Dario Tomassi, Aiace, Turin, Italy.
_lectures, workshops and conferences (conducted)_
2023
Lecture Production and Development Art Projects, Curse for Venice Curatorial Curse, Venice, Italy.
2022
Lecture Production Planning, Curse for Venice Curatorial Curse, Venice, Italy.
2020
Lecture Art Management, Curse for Venice Curatorial Curse, Venice, Italy.
2016
Lecture Video and Public Art , Accademia di Belle Arti, Venice, Italy.
2015
Conference New Frontiers in Digital Times, Italy meets Mexico, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy.
2014
Conference Video Art, Installation and Public intervention, Arts Faculty, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2013
Conference for Artistic Practices between Mexico and Europe, Centro Cultural Jaime Sabines, CONECULTA, Chiapas, Mexico.
Lecture Art Management, Curse for Curators of Art Exhibitions, Galleria A+A, Venice, Italy.
Lecture Art Management, Curse for Curators of Art Exhibitions, Galleria A+A, Venice, Italy.
2011
Workshop Creativity Project, Venice International University, Venice, Italy.
Lecture Art Management, Accademia di Belle Arti, Venice, Italy.
Lecture Art Management, Accademia di Belle Arti, Venice, Italy.
2010
Lecture Approaching Art Exhibitions, Galleria A+A, Venice, Italy.
2008
Artist Talk at Slovenian Culture Centre, in collaboration with Aurora Fonda, Venice, Italy.
2007
Workshop Islands of Creativity, Venice International University, Venice, Italy.
Artist Talk at Galleria A+A, curated by Aurora Fonda, Venice, Italy.
2006
Lecture for the Curse for Curators of Art Exhibitions, Galleria A+A, Venice, Italy.
Workshop at LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, collaboration with Kai Syng, Singapore.
Artist Talk at The Physics Room – Contemporary Art Project Space, curated by Danae Mossman, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Lecture at The Adam Art Gallery, curated by Emily Cormack, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
_didactics and collaborations_
2022
Collaboration with Hilde Teerlinck and Francis Alys for the Exhibition at the Belgium Pavilion, Venice, Italy.
2021
Collaboration with Ooze Architects and Marjetica Potrc for the project The time of the Stone for the 17. International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
Collaboration with Marko Brajovic for the project Anphibious for the 17. International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
Collaboration with Marko Brajovic for the project Anphibious for the 17. International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
2019
Collaboration with Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys for the Exhibition at the Belgium Pavilion, Venice, Italy.
2018
Collaboration with Marko Brajovic for the project NSDC for the 16. International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
2017
Collaboration with Eva Wittocx and Dirk Braekman for the Exhibition at the Belgium Pavilion, Venice, Italy.
Collaborator with Marjetica Potrc and The Chalet Society for the workshop Exercising Citizenship, Cà Tron, Venice, Italy.
Collaborator of Irwin Group for the NSK State Pavilion project as consultant, coordinator of logistics and institutional affairs in Venice, Cà Tron, Venice, Italy.
Collaborator with Marjetica Potrc and The Chalet Society for the workshop Exercising Citizenship, Cà Tron, Venice, Italy.
Collaborator of Irwin Group for the NSK State Pavilion project as consultant, coordinator of logistics and institutional affairs in Venice, Cà Tron, Venice, Italy.
2015
Production manager and coordinator for the production of Untitled, Habana 2000, in collaboration Tania Bruguera in the 56. International Art Exbibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
2010
Marjetica Potrc assistant in the course Sustainable Venice, Design and Arts faculty of the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
2008
Marjetica Potrc assistant in the course Sinking and Rising in Venice: Water Harvesting, Design and Arts faculty of the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
Tania Bruguera’s assistant in the course Arte Util, Design and Arts faculty, of the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
2006
Tania Bruguera’s assistant for the course Arte de Conducta, Design and Arts faculty of the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
2005
Collaboration with Antonì Muntadas as exhibition responsible, Spanish Pavilion during the 51. International Art Exbibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
Collaboration with Stefano Coletto and Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in the project TOMORROW NOW, Venice, Italy.
Collaboration with Cittàdellarte-Michelangelo Pistoletto Foundation for the workshop ART CITY SOCIETY, NEW VISIONS AND PERSPECTIVES FOR VENICE, Venice, Italy.
Collaboration with Stefano Coletto and Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in the project TOMORROW NOW, Venice, Italy.
Collaboration with Cittàdellarte-Michelangelo Pistoletto Foundation for the workshop ART CITY SOCIETY, NEW VISIONS AND PERSPECTIVES FOR VENICE, Venice, Italy.
_grants, selections and prizes_
2007
Selected as the best of the show at the10th International Video & Film Festival, curated by Jeff Bourgeau, Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA.
2006
Selection and Grant on the program MOVIN’UP 2006, Associazione per il Circuito dei Giovani Artisti Italiani, GAI, Turin, Italy.
Selection for the video art show, Video invitational #2, Milan, Italy.
2004
Grant Parini e Associati, ClasAV, Venice, Italy.
2003
Grant offered by Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, Italy.
2002
Grant AIRE offered by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome, Italy.
2000
Special prize of the Jury in the international sculpture contest La sgorbia trucioli d’autore 2000, Rivoli, Italy.
Prize of the Jury and the Critics in the young art contest Valsusart 2000. Bussoleno, Italy.
1999
Second prize on sculpture in the young art contest Valsusart ‘99, Bussoleno, Italy.
Second prize in the international sculpture contest Foire aux plants 1999, San Michel de Maurienne, France.
1997
Grant offered by Società Dante Alighieri for the study of the Italian language, Siena, Italy.
1995
Price best scenography in the Concurso de Teatro Universitario UNIVA ‘95, for the production Los Clavos de Plata by Nicolas Bela, Zapopan, Mexico.
_exhibitions (Selected participations)_
2016
Participation in the Triennial of Expanded Media, curated by Maja Beganovic, ULUS, Belgrade, Serbia.
2014
President of the Jury for the 8 Salón de la Plastica Chiapaneca, Centro Cultural J. Sabines, Chiapas, Mexico.
2013
Public intervention Untitled (Intervention-MU13) curated by Giulia Santi, Mantova, Italy.
Public intervention Untitled (Intervention-U13) curated by Paolo Toffolutti, Udine, Italy.
Public intervention Untitled (Intervention-U13) curated by Paolo Toffolutti, Udine, Italy.
2012
Exhibition ThisAge, curated by Colectivo 19, Galleria A+A, Venice, Italy.
Exhibition Italianitudine, curated by Paolo Toffolutti, Villa Toppo Florio, Buttrio, Italy.
Exhibition Italianitudine, curated by Paolo Toffolutti, Villa Toppo Florio, Buttrio, Italy.
2011
Exhibition (NEVER) WORK, Curated by Nikola Uzunovski, within the frame of AKTO 6, Festival for Contemporary Art, Bitola, Republic of Macedonia.
Exhibition VOLUME COLLECTION, Curated by Nemanja Cvijanovic, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art – MMSU, Rieka, Croatia.
2010
Exhibition Video in Progress 3: Fields of the Performative, curated by KOLECTIVA, Vortex - Cultural & Educational Centre, Skopje, Macedonia.
Exhibition ONCE UPON A TIME IN SANTIAGO, curated by Zara Audiello and Marta Ferretti, Guillermo Núñez Art Gallery, El Bosque, Santiago de Chile.
Participation in the symposium University and Creativity, Guadalajara University. Guadalajara, Mexico.
Exhibition Cadavre Exquis VIDEO, curated by Federica la Paglia, Rosa Jijón and Alexis Moreano, Arte Actual, Quito, Ecuador and Nuovo Cinema Aquila, Roma, Italy.
Course Workshop of Actoral improvement, imparted by Fausto Ramírez, ITESO University, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2009
Exhibition Video in Progress 3, curated by KOLECTIVA, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Participation in C_art, curated by Valentina Berno, Marco Scuderi and Francesca Colasante, Venice, Italy.
Exhibition MNEMOSYNE, The Atlas of Images, curated by Camilla Boemio, Centro Arti Visive Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy.
Exhibition Usine de rêve, curated by Cecilia Castrati and Sabrina Vedovotto, 26cc organization, Rome, Italy.
2008
Exhibition The word in art. Research and the avant-garde in the 20th century, Museo de Arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy.
2007
Exhibition Mobile Journey, curated by Lorella Scacco, VIU San Servolo, Extra 52th Venice Biennale Exhibition, Venice, Italy.
Exhibition Aniconics, Icon Killers, curated by Camilla Boemio, broadcARTsting, Rome, Italy.
Participation in the10th International Video & Film Festival, curated by Jeff Bourgeau, Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA.
Performance Dìa de Muertos en Miercoles de Ceniza, curated by Francesca Colasante, Galleria A+A, in collaboration with Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice, Italy.
2006
Exhibition Dis-Orders, curated by Marco Baravalle, Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation, Venice, Italy.
Exhibition Fragmented Show, curated by Anna Daneri, Cesare Pietroiusti and Roberto Pinto, Care of, Viafarini, Fabbrica del Vapore, neon>fdv, Milan, Italy.
Exhibition Archiving Fever, curated by Emily Cormack, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Exhibition Progressive Hopes, curated by Biljana Tomic and Dobrila Denegri, Chaos Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia.
Exhibition Video Invitational #2, curated by Milovan Farronato. Viafarini, Milan, Italy.
Exhibition Ex, curated by Silvia Sbordoni and Sladzana Bogeska, Ex Lavanderia. Rome, Italy.
Participation on the multimedia project Loading in Progress, organized by sonance.artistic.network, Medien.Kunstlabor, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria.
2005
Exhibition Q13 Visual Art and Music Project, curated by Interno 3 and Andrea Morucchio. Galleria Contemporaneo di Mestre, Mestre, Italy.
Exhibition Multiplo_2, curated by Stefano Coletto. N.O. Gallery, Milan, Italy.
Exhibition Traffic Zone 2, curated by Stefano Coletto and Marco Ferraris. Centro Polifunzionale dell’opera Universitaria, Trento, Italy.
Exhibition New Contemporaries-Singapore Art Show 2005, with Ajeet Mansukhani, curated by Philip Francis, Earl Lu Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore.
Exhibition Projected Visions-Video Art, on the frame of Mostra SESC de Artes - Mediterraneo. SESC Sao Paulo,Vila Mariana, Sao Paolo, Brazil.
Participation in the international multimedia workshop Real Presence 5, curated by Biljana Tomic and Dobrila Denegri, Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.
Video Art Show D.V.D. Drops, Video artists from Italy and Hong Kong, curated by AMAE Artgroup and Lam Wai Kit, section curated by Stefano Coletto, Istituto di Cultura Casa Giorgio Cini, Ferrara, Italy and VIDEOTAGE media center of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Participation in the Poets Night, Latin-American Sunset , curated by Antonio Arevalo, inside the project Isola della Poesia, Latin American Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
Video Art Show Video Arte all’Aurora, curated by Marco Ferraris and Stefano Coletto. Supported by Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Caffè Aurora, P. San Marco, Venice, Italy.
Exhibition 15 Fps, with Ajeet Mansukhani, curated by Lawrence Teo, Studio Theatre - LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore.
Participation in the project Transmission.05, Plaza Market, curated by Progettozero+. Venice, Italy.
Participation in the project The Residents, curated by Dobrila Denegri. Residence Barberini, Rome, Italy.
Video Art Show I Love Art Vidéo, 6éme èdition, section curated by Antonì Muntadas. Le Forum Itinerant. Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, France.
2004
Exhibition i borsisti della 87.ma collettiva, curated by Stefano Coletto and Marco F. Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation, Venice, Italy.
Member of the interdisciplinary group maYBEMay, Venice, Italy and Vienna, Austria.
Presentation of the project www.favelapavilion.net, IUAV University, Venice, Italy.
Participation in the project Transmission, curated by ProgettoZero+ in collaboration with Rirkrit Tiravanja and Josef Kosuth, Spazio Kjosk!, Bassano del Grappa, Italy.
Participation in the international multimedia workshop Real Presence 4, curated by Biljana Tomic and Dobrila Denegri, Museum 25th May, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.
Member of Intorno Group, Venice, Italy. www.16beavergroup.com/intorno
Collective exhibition and street television project Qualsiasi TV, curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Galleria Base/Progetti per l’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy.
Collective exhibition Guardarsi Intorno, curated by Cesare Pietroiusti and Rene Gabri, Galleria A+A, Venice, Italy.
2003
Collective exhibition Talk Show, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Via Farini, Milan, Italy.
Collective exhibition 87.ma Collettiva, curated by Marco Ferraris, Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation, Venice, Italy.
Participation in the art fair Sconfinart, Centro Trentino Esposizioni, Trento, Italy.
Intervention Favela Pavilion in the 50th Venice Biennale, In collaboration with F5 Suite, Venice, Italy.
2002
Collective exhibition EGO, Sala delle Quattro Colonne, Trento, Italy.
Collective exhibition Itinerart, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Fano, Italy.
Participation in the international sculpture symposium,1. Internationales Schaalsee Bildhauer Symposium, Zarrentin, Germany.
2001
Participation in the 11’eme Festival internationale de sculpture sur bois Camille Claudel, Ville de La Bresse, France.
Participation in the 10’me Festival internationale de sculpture sur bois, Liffol le Grand, France.
2000
Presentation of the installation De con strucción, ISAClub, La Havana, Cuba.
Participation in the 1. Internationales Eichsfelder Bildhauer Symposium, Reifenstein, Germany.
Participation in the international sculpture symposium Scultura nelle Alpi 2000. Bardonecchia, Italy.
Participation in the international sculpture contest La sgorbia trucioli d'autore 2000. Rivoli, Italy.
Participation in the young art contest Valsusart 2000, Bussoleno, Italy.
1999
Participation in the Small format sculpture exhibition 1999, Modern Art Center. Guadalajara, Mexico.
Participation in the international sculpture contest Foire aux plants 1999. San Michel de Maurienne, France.
Participation in the young art contest Valsusart '99, Bussoleno, Italy.
1997
Collective sculpture exhibition Salón de la Plástica Joven 1997, Modern Art center Guadalajara, Mexico.
1994
Collective monumental sculpture exhibition, City council of Guadalajara, Mexico.
1991-93
Participation in “Artelier” in the collective exhibitions:
- La Grieta, Centro Cultural El Centenario, Zapopan, Mexico.
- Inaugural Exhibition of the La Mansion Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico.
- Exhibition Vision Escultorica 450 años de la Fundacion de Guadalajara, ST, Guadalajara, Mexico.
_production_
2014-Present
Permanent collaboration with the production company Green Spin, as Art and Production Director, Vicenza and Venice, Italy.
Curator of visual and interactive media for the project Living I.Bubble, in collaboration with Verlato + Zordan Architects, with Emanuele Basso and Ajeet Mansukhani, Vicenza, Italy.
Curator of visual and interactive media for the project Living I.Bubble, in collaboration with Verlato + Zordan Architects, with Emanuele Basso and Ajeet Mansukhani, Vicenza, Italy.
2013
Commissioner of the Mexican Pavilion at the 55. International Art Exbibition – la Biennale di Venezia, in collaboration with INBA, CONACULTA, Venice, Italy.
2012
Commissioner of the Mexican Pavilion at the 13. International Architecture Exbibition – la Biennale di Venezia, in collaboration with INBA, CONACULTA, Venice, Italy.
2011
Commissioner for the national paticipation of Mexico in the 54th Venice Biennale, in collaboration with INBA, CONACULTA, Venice, Italy.
2010
Production manager of the project Rainwater Harvesting, Common ground: projects for the lagoon, in collaboration with Marjetica Potrc and Marguerite Karl, Sant’Erasmo Island, Venice, Italy.
Curator of visual and interactive media for the project Living I.Bubble, in collaboration with Verlato + Zordan Architects, with Emanuele Basso and Ajeet Mansukhani, Vicenza, Italy.
Curator of visual and interactive media for the project Living I.Bubble, in collaboration with Verlato + Zordan Architects, with Emanuele Basso and Ajeet Mansukhani, Vicenza, Italy.
2009
General Manager for the Mexican Pavilion at the 53th Venice Biennale, in collaboration with INBA, CONACULTA, Teresa Margolles and Cuautémoc Medina, Venice, Italy.
2008
Production manager for the projects Voz Alta and Apostasis, in collaboration with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Centro Cultural Tlatelolco and MUAC Museum, Mexico City, Mexico.
2007
Production manager for the Mexican Pavilion at the 52th Venice Biennale in collaboration with Rafael Lozano Hemmer, PAC, CONACULTA, Venice, Italy.
2003
Production assistant for the exbibiton The Blind Pavilion, the Danish pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale in collaboration with Olafur Eliasson, Venice, Italy.
2000-1
Producer and announcer of the radio program Panoramica Italiana in collaboration with Società Dante Alighieri di Guadalajara, XEJB Radio, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2001
Producer for the broadcasting agency ENCUADRE, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2000
Producer for the broadcasting agency PENTA DIGITAL, Guadalajara, Mexico.
1997
Art director for the short film CRUZ, directed by Kenia Marquez, produced by Cecilia Marquez and IMCINE,
Guadalajara, Mexico.
1996
Design and production of the scenography for the theatrical production JoJo by Michael Ende, Taller de teatro
ITESO, Tlaquepaque, Mexico.
1995
Design and production of the scenography for the theatrical production, Yo amo a mi marido by Raul Dopico, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Design and production of the scenography for the theatrical production Los Clavos de Plata by Nicolas Bela, Grupo Marlumina, Maripaz Gomez Pruneda, Zapopan, Jalisco.
Design and production of the scenography for the theatrical production Los Clavos de Plata by Nicolas Bela, Grupo Marlumina, Maripaz Gomez Pruneda, Zapopan, Jalisco.