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2020 ONLINE! with Mirta Kupferminc

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Multidisciplinary Argentine artist. Curator, lecturer, mentor and teacher of other artists, she lives and works in Buenos Aires. The history of her Auschwitz survivor parents became a pillar of her work , which is engraved in a very precise contemporary production line. She is drawn to certain recurrent topics, such as, memory, identity, migrations and human rights. She made the Memorial settled at Plaza Lavalle, in Buenos Aires city for AMIA terrorist attack . She was invited to be part of the exhibition Art and Jewish Mystisism at the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam during 2019 and in January to April 2020, at the exhibition School photos and their afterlives, at Hood Museum in Vermont. Exhibiting since 1977, she has had more than 100 solo and group shows in Argentina, Cuba, Brazil, Uruguay, China Switzerland, Spain, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong , Germany, Israel, Poland, France, Hungary, England, United States. Her works can be found in International Collections and Museums. Received local and international printmaking awards, as: Great Honor Prize (2012) in Argentina, First Prize Sivori Museum, Argentina (2018) Silver Medal Taiwan Biennale (2006) Honor Mention Taipei Biennale (1999)Third Prize at 7th Koichi Biennale (2008). Curator of the Argentinean presentation at the Contemporary Jewish Art Jerusalem Biennale 2019. In 2015 she launched, and is the current LABA-BA director in Buenos Aires. Also directs Grafica Insurgente group of artists , in Argentina.

www.mirtakupferminc.net

Earlier Event: May 7
2020 ONLINE! with Yonatan Ullman