Sonia Becce

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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EDUCATION

 

1996. A semester at the Center for Curatorial Studies of Bard College, New York, USA: Attended seminars with Rob Storr (ex-MoMA Curator, Director of 52^nd Venice Biennial, 2007), Ivo Mesquita (A Brazilian Curator), Bruce Altschuler (Director of Isamu Noguchi Museum); and Dr. Norton Batkin (Director of the Center).

 

1992. Two months in Germany on the invitation of Jan Hoet (Director of Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany). A member of a team of assistants to curators on the preparatory phase of the exhibition

 

1980-1985. John F. Kennedy University, Buenos Aires: Fulfilled requirements for a course of study in Psychology.

 

1983/1988 Seminars in Freudian and Lacanian Theory.

 

1972-1979. University of Buenos Aires, School of Engineering:

Completed requirements for a course of study in Chemical Engineering.

 

EXPERIENCE

 

2008- Curator “Felix Gonzalez-Torres:Somewhere/Nowhere”, Malba, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires.

“A Crime has many Stories”, Project for Haudenschild Garage, La Jolla, California.

2007- Member of the Advisory Committee of Cifo (Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida)

– Member of the Selection Committee for Chandon Award, Museo de Bellas Artes de Neuquen, Argentina.

-Curator Proyecto vidriera, Artist: Monica Van Asperen

2006. -Member of the Selection Committee for Chandon Award, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Salta, Argentina.

Invited for Centro Cultural de España to be part of a group ¿Un lugar bajo el sol? (Los espacios para las prácticas creativas contemporáneas: revisión y análisis)

-Curator “Guillermo Kuitca[1]: Obras puntuales”, Museo Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia.

2005 and 2004. Curator “Guillermo Kuitca: Variaciones y dibujos sobre papel”, Sala de la Muralla Bizantina, Cartagena (Spain), August-September 2004, Salas del Ayuntamiento de Murcia, February - March 2005.

-Curator “Tempranos intereses personales”, a group show, Alberto Sendrós Gallery, Buenos Aires

-Curator “Civilización y Barbarie” (www.c-y-b.com.ar ) , Centro Cultural Renato Russo, Brasilia (July 2004), Museo de Arte Moderno “Carlos Mérida”, Guatemala (September 2004), Museo del Canal Interoceánico, Panamá (February 2005), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile (June 2005), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofía Imber, Caracas (September 2005), Museo MACRO, Rosario, Argentina (August 2006)

 

2003 -Co-curator (with *Paulo Herkenhoff) “Guillermo Kuitca, a retrospective – Works 1982-2002”, Centro de Arte – Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain.

 

-Co-curator (with Paulo Herkenhoff[2]) “Guillermo Kuitca, a retrospective: Works 1982-2002”. Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires – MALBA, Buenos Aires. Argentina

 

-Curator: “Thirteen Young Argentine Artists”, Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain.

 

-Member of the Selection Committee for ArteBA: ORIGENES Art Award:

Buenos Aires Art Fair. Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

-Coordinator “Kuitca Studio Program for young Artists 2003-2005”, with the Sponsorship of the of the Universidad de Buenos Aires Extramural Department: Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center.

 

-Selected by the Argentinean Foreign Office as a member of a group of experts in different cultural areas to draw plans for an Argentinean Program for Latin America.

 

-Invited by Olga Viso of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington to

contribute to the retrospective show of Guillermo Kuitca to be held in that institution in 2008.

2002. -Co-curator (with Juan Travnik) “Panorama”, a group show, as part of the: International Festival of Photography. General San Martín Cultural Center. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 

2000. Curator “Marina de Caro: Drawings”. Jorge Luis Borges Cultural Center. Buenos Aires. Argentina.

 

-Curator  « Juan Travnik, Photographs, a Retrospective », Jorge Luis Borges Cultural Center,. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

 

1999-Co-curator (with Andrés Duprat) “34 ARC: Thirty-Four Contemporary Artists from Rosario”, on the occasion of the re-opening of Castagnino Museum, Rosario, Argentina.

 

-Curator: “Guillermo Kuitca Retrospective Exhibition. Helio Oiticica. Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

 

1999/1998. Curator for L’Alliance Francaise Art Gallery (with the sponsorship of the French Government) exhibiting works by Argentine and French artists:

 

 

1999 Exhibitions:

 

Graciela Hasper – Photographs

 

Ana Casanova – Collage

 

Orlan – Multimedia French Artist

 

Alejandra Seeber – Paintings

 

Manuel Esnoz – Paintings

 

Alberto Goldenstein – Photographs

 

Adriana Miranda - Photographs

 

1998 :

Alejandro Kuropatwa – Photographs

 

Mónica Van Asperen – Installation

 

Bernard Faucon – Photographs

 

Jane Brodie – Installation

 

Ruy Krygier – Video

 

Alfredo Londaibere – Paintings

 

Xávery Wolsky – Engravings

 

 

Apart from exhibitions, the Gallery program included multimedia events, contemporary and electronic music concerts, performances with video works and alternative projects of various fashion designers.