In this tenth edition, ESTE ARTE inaugurates the ESTE 360: these are tours within the ESTE ARTE fair, provided by a specialist in contemporary art and art history: Mercedes Pérez Bergliaffa.
ESTE 360 is free and open to the general public, and will take place every day of the fair, from 6 to 7 p.m. Mandatory registration.
This program will be held in Spanish, without translation.
Aninat Galería (Santiago de Chile) | Black Gallery (Garzón)| BM Art Gallery (Cadaqués) | Coral Contemporary Gallery (Miami) | Galería Del Infinito (Buenos Aires) | Galería Espacio O (Santiango de Chile) | Galería del Paseo (Manantiales, Lima) | Galería Sur (La Barra) | Galerie Sophie Scheidecker (Paris) | Galleria Vik Milano (Monaco) | María Casado Home Gallery (Buenos Aires) | Quimera (Buenos Aires) | Walden Naturae (Garzón) | Xippas (Paris, Genève, Punta del Este)
Mercedes Pérez Bergliaffa
She is a professor of Curatorial Studies and History of Photography at the National University of the Arts (UNA, Argentina), and a researcher at the Visual Arts Research Institute (IIAV, UNA). He obtained the 2023 distinction in Aesthetics, art history and art criticism, awarded by the National Academy of Fine Arts of Argentina, as well as numerous awards and distinctions, among them, from the Museum of Fine Arts from Houston (USA), the Fundación Antorchas (Argentina), Banff Center (Canada), Fondation Langlois pour l'art, la science et la technologie (Canada), arteBA Award for Young Curators (2005, Argentina), Hermit Foundation (Czech Republic), among others. She has an extensive career as an art critic specialized in the art market and contemporary art, in media such as Artforum (NY), Radio Continental AM 590 (Arg), Mixta (France), Clarín and Revista Ñ (Argentina). He worked in the production and curatorial area of the Guggenheim Museum and the Venice International Architecture Biennale (Italy), as well as in the first three End of the World Biennials (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina), several Open Studios (Buenos Aires , Argentina), HTMells Festival (Montreal-Buenos Aires), together with Derrick De Kerckhove at Fundación Telefónica and the Canadian Embassy in Argentina, among other curators. Since 2010, she has organized the Art Criticism Laboratories (at Fundación Proa, Fundación Telefónica, Macba, Argentina), as well as the History, Photography and Science Conferences (UNA, Argentina). She develops programs for national museums (Argentina).