Renata Cervetto is a PhD candidate in Humanities and Communication (UOC, Barcelona), a Master in History of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture (MNCARS-UCM, 2023), a graduate in Art History (UBA, Buenos Aires, 2011), and has a postgraduate degree in curatorship from Appel Amsterdam (2013-14).
Teaching / Research
As a professor, she has developed the Archivo y documentación de procesos comunitarios course along with Alejandro Cevallos and Natasha Sandoval (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ecuador, 2024). She has been an artistic tutor at the Summer Academy (Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, 2022) and Matadero Madrid (2023), and gave art and education workshops at Matadero Madrid (Cómo nos contamos, 2023), the Fundación Botín (The Ground Slips Between Us with Shilpa Gupta, 2024), and the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemiza (Crear recipientes, tejiendo una moción, with Macarena Hernández, 2024). As a curator and professor, she has collaborated with the Museo Moderno de Buenos Aires (2024), the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2021), dDaadgalerie (Berlin, 2021 and 2024), ifa Gallery (Berlin, 2021), the Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico City, 2021), Weißensee Kunsthochschule (Berlin, 2023), and moreamong others. As part of her research work, she has edited The Fellow Reader #1. On Boycott, Censorship and Educational Practices (De Appel Amsterdam, 2014), Agítese antes de usar. Desplazamientos educativos, sociales y artísticos en América Latina (along together with Miguel A. López, MALBA, TEOR/éTica, 2016); and Agítese antes de usar. Proximidad y reciprocidad en las prácticas artísticas/educativas (together with M. A. López and Macarena Hernández, Temblores, 2023).
Professional experience
Since 2013 she has been developing her practice work between curatorship curatorial and educational practices, with special interest in how art maycan contribute to the development of new formats of artistic mediation and long-term community projects. She has collaborated with the education department at the Reina Sofía Museum and Manifesta 15 Barcelona, and also conducts workshops for artists, curators, and cultural agents related to expanded educational and artistic practices. Between 2015-2018 she was Coordinator of the Department of Education Department of the MALBA Museum (Buenos Aires), and between 2019-2020 she was co-curator of the 11th Berlin Biennial, The crack starts within, together with Agustín Pérez Rubio, Lisette Lagnado, and María Berríos.
Awards
- UOC Grant for Doctoral Project in Humanities and Communication, 2024-2027.
- MAR research grant (Museo Reina Sofía, hablarenarte, Fundación Carasso, Madrid), 2022.
- CIMAM Annual Conference (Grant for accommodation, attendance, and travel to the conference). “The Co-Creative Museum: Social Agency, Ethics, and Heritage”. Buenos Aires, 9 – 11 November 2023.
- Ifa Travel Grant (Buenos Aires - Cologne), March 2018.
- CIMAM Annual Conference (Grant for accommodation, attendance, and travel to the conference awarded by the Getty Foundation). “The Role and Responsibilities of Museums in Civil Society”. Singapore, 10-12 November 2017.
- Ammodo Curatorial Fellowship. De Appel Amsterdam, 2014-2015.
Photo: Antonio Bellón