rosa mesa: International Festival of Performance, 2008, Bern

ABOUT THE ARTIST

rosa mesa was born in Canary Islands and immigrate to Toronto, Canada in 1995. In 1996 she started her studies at the OCAD graduating in 2002. She has lived in Kenia, the West Indies, Thailand, Canada, Spain, Switzerland and Germany having presently her base of work in Europe.

rosa is a multidisplinary artist whose practice extend to installations, performance, video and public interventions. Her works are a response to her surroundings that become dissected and reconstructed in a new narrative that exposes whatever that triggers her in amusement or disgust.

Her practice takes often an observant and humoristic approach. Her pieces explore areas of semiotics and the art practice, identity, nomadism, migration, feminism and the hybrid and changing state of contemporary culture. In the last years her practice of performance in the public spaces has began to develop toward what she choses to describe as social engaged art defining it as an art practice that believes that art is a motor for social chance as it creates spaces of debate, creativity and health.

Today her work covers video and sound explorations, drawing, performance and public interventions.

Artists as Esther Ferrer, Nancy Spero, Adrian Piper, Coco Fusco, Dora García, Joseph Buoeys, Oliver Ressler...

She has exhibited in Spain, Canada, Serbia, Corea, Japan, Switzerland, Germany , Brazil, France, Colombia, Venezuela and Cuba.

rosa mesa has worked with the german artist Thomas Proffe since 2005 and they get together every year to work in projects often in the realm of installations and public interventions. Through these encounters the artists search for enriching their practice through collaborative works as well as to explore the multidisciplinary art practice.

rosa mesa is also since 2010 and with the colombian artist Maria Linares part of the daily services art platform, a Berlin project based on the exploration of the artist in the public spaces and in conection to the diverse social issues that affect todays contemporary art culture.

rosa mesa´s interests have today a lot to do with what she consideres an emergency state of thought and her works are in continual search of new ways to deal with a ever-mutating contemporary culture. She abandoned formal approaches to the art, keeping only a little space to deal with her adiction to drawing that it gets transformed more and more in mural pieces of ephimeral character.

rosa mesa her work as aperformer is charectirized by not rehersal and not repetition of the pieces in a more than probable futile attemp to scape the object.

Her interest in reaching the audience is also explore mainly through the performance and public intervention mediums, she has also created several blog projects to contact with the internet world.

PERFORMANCE

2016

“Borradas” performance, parte del Proyecto “Cuerpos”, Museo Colón. Espana

“Missing”, public intervention. Inertia, ran off, Hamilton, Canadá.

“Dark secret”, public intervention. Bienal Miradas de Mujer 2016, Toronto Canadá.

2016 "Missing" public intervention, Hamilton , Canada.

2015

“The king is dead, long live the king”, performance, Artscape Young Place.

“Dialogues with my baggage”,Legs, too. Performance, FADO, Artscape.

“Day dreaming”, public performance, Spain.

2014

“Genero género”, performance, Galería Saro León.

2013

“Calando Hondo”, intervención pública, Museo de Colón, Spain.

2012

“Hablando con Pepa” intervención pública, Spain.

“The poetry of the Law” performance, Spain.

“Gone with the wind”, performance, Teatro Victor Jara, Spain.

2011

“Tired of counting”performance, Alucine Latin Video and Film Festival, Canada.

“Stained” performance, Kurt forever, Paris, France.

“…toll for you” performance, ACCION MAD, Museo de Bellas Artes, Spain.

2010

“Brothers”, performance, Festival Cuerpo a Cuerpo, Spain.

“Secrets and Puppets” Festival Epipiderm, Lisbon, Portugal.

2009

“Proyecto Circo”, X Bienal de La Habana. Festival Internacional de Performance

2008

“Investors Corner”, PROGR, Bern

“Encounters of an allien girl”, 1, Ittingen, Suiza.

“The Vanishing Ink”, Zentrum 5, Bern.

“Vanishin Ink” performed in Sao Paulo by Performola, Brasil.

“The Hand that Rocks the Cradle rules the World” presented at the Museo de Arte Conteporáne

Bogota Colombia, Galería Santa Fe Bogota Colombia, Casa Tres Patios Medellin Colombia,

Museo Bolivariano de Arte Contemporáneo Santa Marta Colombia, Museo de Arte

Conteporáneo Caracas Venezuela y en la Fundación Nelson Garrido, “nomasdecinco”

CaracasVenezuela.

2006

“El entierro de la Sardina” presented at Centro Cultural La Regenta, Las Palmas,Spain.

2004

“Talking to my Mother” presented at The Youth Biennial of Yugoslavia

PARTICIPATE

- You can participate each last wednesday of the month in the project Habalndo con Pepa, as an invited artist or as a lawyer. The project take place at Parque Santa Catalina, from 5 to 8 pm. www.daliservices.net

-From the project:"Ich habe noch einen koffer in Berlin" WRITE YOUR STORY_Guestbook http://www.rosamesaneukoelln.blogspot.com/ You can leave a story or anecdote about the city in this blog.

-From the project :"Secrets and Puppets" GIVE ME YOUR SECRET dametusecreto@hotmail.com http://www.rosamesasecretos.blogspot.com/ I invite you to give me a secret, something you have not told anyone to be publish in a blog in the next month. I will myself write seven stories I have never told anyone.

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Collective exhibitions

2015

“La última cena”, drawing, Madrid,

2014

“Gula”, video performance, proyección, Espacio Digital, Spain.

2013

““Intimidades” S7T Espacio cultural, Spain

2012

Premio Fundación Waja: “Iam Water” video piece Bogota, Colombia

“Lo que el viento se llevó” obra multidisciplinar. Teatro Victor Jara, Gran Canaria, Spain

2011

“Lamiéndome”, video performance, Festival Cuerpo y Mujer, Perú, Lima, curated by María M.

2010

„Berlín“ video piece, Festival de La Havanna curated by Ada Azor

„Havanna/Berlín“ video pieces, MECA, Almaría

2009

Galerie Periferia, Ittingen, Switzerland.

2008

“Frontieres”, Museum d´art et d´histoire de Neuchatel, curated by VISARTE, Switzerland

“Alleluhiah”, Lokal.INT, Biel, Switzerland, curated by Chri F.

2006

“Islas Móviles”, La Granja, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, curated by OrlandoBrito.

2005

“Proyecto Plaça Jaume Sabartes”, III Juegos Internacionales de Arte Efímero de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Centro de Arte La Regenta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

"Like a Fish out of Water", curated by Orlando Brito

2004

Biennial of Young Artists of Yugoslavia, Serbia “Talking to my Mother”, curated by Ingrid

Mayhofer.

2003

Soft Art House, “Alucinarte”, Toronto, curated by Jorge Lozano.

Propeller, “I am thirsty” , Toronto, curated by Nicola Woods.

Gallery 1313, “Patching History”,, Toronto, curated by the Loop Collective.

OCAD Gallery, “Body Language”, Toronto.

Here&Now Gallery, “Uncertenty”, Toronto.

Shag Gallery, “Botánicas”, Toronto.

2002

Toronto Outdoor Exhibition, Toronto.

The Distillery, Toronto.

Art System, “More and More Curious”, Toronto, curated by Jubal Brown and Daniel Borins.

Art System, “Super Sex”,Toronto, curated by Jubal Brown and Daniel Borins.

Spin Gallery, “Go West”, Toronto.

Cabildo Insular, “Esclavas de María”, Las Palmas

Art System, “And Infinite Justice for All”, instalación, Toronto.

Performance and public interventions

2015

“The king is dead, long live the king”, performance, Artscape Young Place.

“Dialoges with my baggage”,Legs, too. Performance, FADO, Artscape.

“Day dreaming”, public performance, Spain.

2014

“Genero género”, performance, Galería Saro León.

2013

“Calando Hondo”, intervención pública, Museo de Colón, Spain.

2012

“Hablando con Pepa” intervención pública, Spain.

“The poetry of the Law” performance, Spain.

“Gone with the wind”, performance, Teatro Victor Jara, Spain.

2011

“Tired of counting”performance, Alucine Latin Video and Film Festival, Canada.

“Stained” performance, Kurt forever, Paris, France.

“…toll for you” performance, ACCION MAD, Museo de Bellas Artes, Spain.

2010

“Brothers”, performance, Festival Cuerpo a Cuerpo, Spain.

“Secrets and Puppets” Festival Epipiderm, Lisbon, Portugal.

2009

“Proyecto Circo”, X Bienal de La Habana. Festival Internacional de Performance

2008

“Investors Corner”, PROGR, Bern

“Encounters of an allien girl”, 1, Ittingen, Suiza.

“The Vanishing Ink”, Zentrum 5, Bern.

“Vanishin Ink” performed in Sao Paulo by Performola, Brasil.

“The Hand that Rocks the Cradle rules the World” presented at the Museo de Arte Conteporáne

Bogota Colombia, Galería Santa Fe Bogota Colombia, Casa Tres Patios Medellin Colombia,

Museo Bolivariano de Arte Contemporáneo Santa Marta Colombia, Museo de Arte

Conteporáneo Caracas Venezuela y en la Fundación Nelson Garrido, “nomasdecinco”

CaracasVenezuela.

2006

“El entierro de la Sardina” presented at Centro Cultural La Regenta, Las Palmas,Spain.

2004

“Talking to my Mother” presented at The Youth Biennial of Yugoslavia

Exhibiciones en solitario

2015

“Blanco y negro”, instalación. Galeria de la Universidad de Las Palmas.

2014

“Avec le temps”, instalación y video, Casa de los Croneles. Spain.

“50 shades of grey” instalación, Galería Saro León, Spain

2013

“Wrong mapping”, drawing installation, studio Centro de Arte La Regenta, Spain.

2011

Berlin stories, audio piece. Kulturpalast, Berlin

2010

Proyecto Secrets and Puppets, Dame tu secreto, Festival Epipiderm, Lisbon, Portugal

2009

Festival Internacional de Video, Alucine. Toronto, Canada.

2008

“Visible Walls”, installation curated by Beate Engel, Bern.

“When all the querubins went to hell”, LokalInt, Switzerland, curated by Chri F.

2007

“Kunstquadrate”, Essen, Germany, curated by Silvia Sonnesmicht.

2004

ZYPR, “Amarantos”, Toronto, curated by Beth Lowe.

2003

Zsa Zsa Gallery, “Cutting with a flower”, Toronto, curated by Andrew Hardword.

2003

Moon Bean Gallery, Toronto, curated by Martin Kuchar.

2002

Ne Plus Ultra Project, “Mit Inem Wort”, Toronto. Curated by Tiff Itza

Come as you are, “Affections”, Toronto, curated by Cori Slander.

Sim&Jones, “Print Series”, Toronto.

Premios y becas

1998 Honorable Mention, OCAD, Toronto.

2001 Honorable Mention, OCAD, Toronto.

2002 Printmaking Scholarship, OCAD, Toronto.

2004 Grant from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Canada.

2004 Beca de la Consejería de Cultura de Gran Canarias.

2004 Travel Grant from the Canada Council of the Arts.

2005 Exhibition Assistance, Canada.

2005 Beca de produccion, Consejeria de Cultura de Canarias.

2007 Residency, Visarte, Neuchatel, Switzerland.

2008 Residency, Visarte, Neuchatel, Switzerland.

2008 Residency, PROGR, Berna, Switzerland.

2008 Beca de Producción del Gobierno de Canarias.

2009 Beca de viaje, Canarias Crea, Gobierno de Canarias.

2009 Travel Grant, Canada Art Council

2009 Beca Cooperacion Internacional, Embajada de España en Berna.

2010 Beca de viaje, Canarias Crea, Gobierno de Canarias.

2010 Beca del Senado de Berlin

2011 Nominación premio del Jurado y del Público, Festival 48 Horas Berlin.

2011 Nominación Beca Septenio.

2011 Premio Madrid Procesos 2011

2011 Beca de viaje, Canarias Crea.

2012 Premio Fundación Waja.

2012 Artist in residence, La Regenta, Spain

2013 Artist in residence, La Regenta, Spain.

2014 Prize for Good Practice Ministery of Social Affairs, Spain.

2015 Travel Grant, CAAM, Spain.

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Monday, November 17, 2008

International Festival of Performance, 2008, Bern

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