Qualifications and academic training

• Master of Fine Arts, Konstfack College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm 2016
• Bachelor of Fine Arts, Universitat de Barcelona 1998
• Filmmaking Program, The New School University, New York 2003

Activity and/or professional career

She has recently participated in the Barcelona Science Biennial 2023 with a collaborative installation between UB scientists and choreographers. His work has been exhibited in Barcelona at the Santa Mónica Art Center, at the CCCB, at The Green Parrot gallery, the PLECS-Cultura Rizoma Festival, the Maristany Art Center, the Souvenir Space, the Loop Festival, La Capilla Bcn / Production, And also internationally in countries like Norway, Sweden and Germany. She has been a resident of Hangar, La Escocesa, El Graner and other international residences in Berlin and Stockholm. Agustín combines his artistic activity with teaching at various institutions such as the University of Utrecht where he teaches film classes and the Metaphor Art School in Barcelona.

Investigation

Ortiz Herrera's artistic practice develops in the fields of audiovisual, performance and installation. He uses these media to activate a queer perspective in the patriarchal-colonialist context inscribed in the scientific and historical disciplines.

Publications

• Anomenar.Posseir. Critique of taxonomic practice. BCN Production/La Capella. Barcelona City Council, 2020
• Future Forest Diorama. The Scottish Editions, 2022
• Unruhe. Figurationen. Schweizerischen Akademie der Geistes und Sozialwissenschaften. Vienna 2023

Work

His latest film Gnosis il·luminada was selected as part of the Not Yet Yes program curated by Simon*e van Saarloos at the IDFA (International Documentary film Festival Amsterdam) 2022.

Awards

• Artistic research grant. La Capella / BCN Production. Anomenar. Posseir. Crítica de la pràctica Taxonómica project (1919-20)
• Ecotons-La Escocesa artistic research grant. With the project. Future Forest Diorama (2021-22)
• OSIC artistic research grants, 2020 and 2022.
• Nils Johan Sjöstedts Scholarship, Stockholm, 2016.
• His work Fungi Fantasy and their friends Crazy Bacteria was acquired for the MACBA collection (2021)

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