Gabriel Mestre Arrioja
STUDIO & CURATORIAL
Public Programmes
sOUND vs VISION 20-20
2020, Pasagüero
Public program of video art, installation, music and sound art in Pasagüero. Artists: Sergio Brown Figueredo, Marisol Cal y Mayor & Rapha Santamaría, Polo Castellanos, Abraham Gómez, Gabriel Mestre Arrioja, Jon Stahn, Enrique Cantú, Erick Diego, Nebur, Julio Torres “Altormur” Zara Monroy and Canis Ludens. * Showcase «It’s Fucking Records» México City records label focused on Riddim Dubstep: Kranivm & Duckbroh A3øn Owl Xsodia Skinny Flat Megvtron & Sannakji «The clarity or sharpness of vision is normally measured at a distance of 20 steps and there are also twenty points that divide each variation between the auditory frequencies. If you have 20/20 vision, surely this year you will be able to see more clearly at 20 steps, the equivalent of what you should normally hear at twenty tones. » G.M.A Public program of video art, installation and sound art, in the Pasagüero, a special installment of the permanent research of the artist and curator Gabriel Mestre Arrioja, who through different trips, searches and exchanges, manages to interconnect an interesting selection of artists dedicated to activating life through the resources of sound, video and installation, to be presented in the context of the contemporary art week within the most emblematic Club in Mexico City.
Earth – Body
2019, Museo de Geología UNAM, Mexico City
Artists: Abraham Gómez, Ane Graff, Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir, Gabriel Mestre Arrioja, Héctor Vargas, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Marja Helander, Nikolina Ställborn, Pablo Castillo, Pepe Mogt, Raymundo Barnet Curated by Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Gabriel Mestre Arrioja and Jacek Sosnowski. The exhibition Earth – Body takes its title from the work that artist Ana Mendieta elaborated at the end of the 1970s during visits to Mexico. It is specifically designed for the Geological Museum of Mexico City, with the opening commencing the Mexico City Art Week 2019. The exhibition was accompanied by a program of live performances, talks and screenings, including talks by Jacek Sosnowski on necropolitics and extractivism, Karen Cordero, PhD, about notions of feminism and ecology, a talk about the trail of cinematography within the Seri territory from 19th century until today by Filmmaker Antonio Coello, Seri rapper Zara Monroy, and a talk by Tsotsil artist and scholar Margarita Martínez Pérez, PhD, from San Juan Chamula, Chiapas. Seri’s chants and dance about the creation of sky, the sea and the desert by artists Raymundo Barnett and Galia Romero Astorga from Punta Chueca, Sonora Presentation of Marja Helander’s film Eatnanvuloš Lottit – Birds in the Earth (2018) selected for the Official Short Film Section of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Panel discussion with artists and curators, moderated by Jacek Sosnowski Opening Performance by Raymundo Barnet followed by collective and individual cleansing ceremonies with indigenous medicine. Multimedia concert with Pepe Mogt from Nortec Collective presenting his piece Quadripoint from the borderlands of Tijuana and San Diego. The project was supported by Fomento Cultural Ponce-Kurczyn, Instituto de Geología, UNAM, Museo de Geología, The Danish Arts Foundation, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, The Icelandic Art Center, The Nordic Culture Fund, The Nordic Art Association, Office for Contemproray Art Norway OCA, Propaganda, The Swedish Arts Grants Comittee’s International Exchange Programme for Visual Artists Iaspis, and the Danish, Finnish, Norweigan and Swedish embassies in Mexico.
Magmatism Pic-Nic
2019, Pavillion 02 in GAD – Giudecca Art District, Venize.
Program curated by: Gabriel Mestre Arrioja and Jacek Sosnowski in cooperation with Mediations Biennale. Magmatism team will activate the courtyard space with video screenings, performances presentations and sheer human engagement. It will be unique occasion to get involved with Magmatism Movement – a project that we had been developing this year that focuses on unknown and inexplicable movements of culture masses under the metaphor of the processes of magma flow in Earth crust. Magmatism is a living, moving and eruptive thing that you have yet to witness. With Pic-Nic at Pavilion 02 Magmatism wants to introduce new curatorial perspective on how art functions in current time. We strive to bring up contexts that in relation to global, white, western, heteronormative art world can be perceived borderline or completely outside. Artists: Ewa Doroszenko Paweł Kowalewski Gabriel Mestre / Jacek Sosnowski Lisl Ponger Peter Johansson Julien Bouillon Ibrahim Quraishi Pepe Mogt Matti Aikio Melissa Lockwood Norbert Delman Antonio Gritón / Adriana Camacho
ENJAMBRE / SWARM:
«When the world becomes violent, art turns abstract»
2017, Museo Nacional de Arte MUNAL, Mexico City.
Peter Welz, Ibrahim Quraishi, Flo Kasearu, Michael Würtz Overbeck, Julien Bouillon, David Ferrando Giraut, Irene de Andrés (España) – Lehman Brothers, Javier Toscano, Mathias & Mathias, Néstor Quiñones y Lucia Hinojosa. Performance by Vegan Cannibal and Ruth Proctor. Enjambre / Swarm: «When the world becomes violent, art turns abstract,» First delivery of an international research developed by independent curator Gabriel Mestre that addreses the exchange of resistance strategies among artists, curators and thinkers located in 16 countries, working under different conditions of emergency and having declared their own positions facing danger and imminent alienation in the context of a mysterious new global order raising. Program of screenings made by Gabriel Mestre for the National Museum of Mexican Art – MUNAL.
Asamblea de Artistas
2015-2018, Obrera Centro, Kiosco Morisco, La Quiñonera y Proyectos Oaxaca, Mexico City and Oaxaca
Artist’s Assembly a critical device that with different strategies, aims to stimulate reflection, discussion and visibility of different topics, people and works, which by their nature report potential interest for the different communities that conforms the contemporary art scene in Mexico. Artists and participants: Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Javier Toscano, Nestor Quiñones, Estudio Amorales, Obrera Centro (Marcos Castro and Mauro Giaconni), Javier Arango Garfias, Francesca Gargallo and the audience.
PERFORMANC€ CURR€NCY
2016, Tripitaka Water Bank, Copenhagen
A program of anti-commercial actions with the best exchange rate in €UROPE, all during the ArtWeek and the Art Fair$$$ of COPENHAG€N. Artist$$$: Georges Jacotey, Johna Hansen, Kristi Kongi, Rubén Gonzaléz Escudero and Ibrahim Quiraishi, curated by Gabriel Mestre Arrioja. Special thanks to Xpo Studio – Paris and to the Mexican Embassy in Copenhagen. Flyer design by Seniorongo Flowers from Mexico.
Sesiones Discordia
2015 – 2016, Bar Bucardón, Mexico City Center.
Series of talks, concerts, interventions and screenings that will be held every full moon of the year and that serve as a prelude to an anti-festival that we are fine-tuning, an event that will take place in December in Mexico City. In these hybrid sessions, the aim is to present a group of artists from Mexico and the world, who explore various possibilities around contemporary art and musical performance. Artists: Eduardo Abaroa Surgical Lash (Alfredo Gallardo) Vegan Cannibal (Carlos Olvera) Álvaro Ruíz Irmgard Emmelhainz Alejandro Hernández Gálvez Erick Diego Veneno para las Hadas
Germinal Niños
2015, Casa del Lago UNAM, Mexico City
Participatory children’s culture program, will offer a series of activities in music, animation, dance and visual arts on February 5 and 8 at the Casa del Lago «Juan José Arreola» venue, with the purpose of bringing children and young people closer to contemporary Art and the artistic legacy of Mexico within the twentieth century. Artists: Styrmir Örn Gudmundson, Carl Palm, Dear and Jurguis Paskevicus.
Dale Like
2015, Obrera Centro, Mexico City Center
Carlos Amorales’ studio presents an ensemble of the artistic skills of it’s collaborators, linking Performance, poetry, narrative and experimental music. In Obrera Centro, during the Assembly of Artists Cicle. Curator: Gabriel Mestre Arrioja. Documentation: Alina Sánchez.
STARSHIP
presents other version of Zigaretten Rauchen
2015, Goethe Instituto México, Mexico City
Installation, light and sound by Zigaretten Rauchen, a conceptual band of loop artists, presented by STARSHIP and performed by groups and projects from Mexico City and Berlin. Artists: Anders Clausen Karl Holmqvist Daniel Pflumm Andy Grier / Thieves Like Us Ellen Gutovsky Hannah Weinberger Steven Warwick / Heatsick Mark van Yetter Export Funk Stalaktos Rogelio Sosa Haciendo el Mal Brontis Líneas Albies Carlos Cons presenta Antártica / Mar / Réplica We are so grateful for the strong support of: Cultura Surplus, Austrian Cultural Forum, Austrian Ministry of Culture, IFA and Goethe Inst. Of Germany. As well as: ONSOUND, Artemisia, Mezcal Fortuna, Perrier and Taberna Capote. Curated and produced by Gabriel Mestre Arrioja.
M16 Gun Guitar
2014, Cultura Surplus Gallery, Mexico City.
As last event of 2014 Cultura Surplus Gallery presented three experimental approaches with guitar: performance and artworks, (dis) honoring the memory of all those explorers of this music instrument in history- Artists: Indriði Arnar Ingólfsson Duncan Pinhas con Tana Barbier Rogelio Sosa Curators: Gabriel Mestre A and Rogelio Sosa.
BUCARELI ACT
2013, México City Center
A series of contemporary art activations developed for the urban context at three locations on the Bucareli Avenue in México City. With more than 25 international artists in various activities, stimulating the diversity of practices and approaches to contemporary art. Show 1, Espacio_M presents one collective exhibition at the #134 of Bucareli Street: A Necessary Evil (Un Mal Necesario), artists: Marcelo Balzaretti, Álvaro Castillo, Marcos Castro – Alexis Mata Ciler, Jose Dávila, Taka Fernández, Verónica Flores, Jens Kull, Gonzalo Lebrija, Ilán Lieberman – Rafael Ortega, Santiago Merino, Edgar Orlaineta, Enrique Rosas, Guillermo Santamarina – David Miranda, Enrique Santos, Eduardo Sarabia, Laureana Toledo, Fabiola Torres-Alzaga, Francisco Ugarte, Pilar Villela Mascaró. Gallery Cultura Surplus also presented two solo shows and two performances curated by Mr Gabriel Mestre Arrioja. -Maison Ménades by Ulrike Buck and Kaleidestenia – El ejercicio de crear kaleidoscopios by Álvaro Verduzco located at the #128 of that same Street. Artenación and On Sound were sponsors of the opening performances: -Batalla de Titanes by Arcángel Constantini with Enrique Rosas and -Set de Voz by Rogelio Sosa at Bucareli #120.
