This Christmas the IVAM has a surprise… for everyone!

The IVAM invites you to its headquarters in Valencia – Centre Julio González – and in Alcoy, so you can enjoy the museum’s modern and contemporary art, through a special programme filled with culture, leisure, and entertainment: workshops for families, guided tours for the general public, city tours, autonomous games, etc.

In addition, the museum will remain open, free of charge, during the holiday period so that you can continue to enjoy all the exhibitions..

You can check the opening hours and plan your visithere.

What better way to end the year and start 2022 by celebrating the museum that is full of art?

More information: ivam@ivam.es / teléfono 96.3176600

This second edition of El Berenar comes in the form of a conversation in which the invited artists –Diego Navarro and Darío Alva (artists of the Program), Guillermo Ros and Laura Costas– will create a virtual stage where they can share their work or research.

As an activity, El Berenar constitutes an informal meeting place for the presentation of projects by artists, authors or other cultural practitioners working in Valencia. In each edition, two guests together with one of the artists from the Art and Context Program will discuss their projects or interests. The conversation is open to everyone present.

The activity will be on Tuesday, 21st December, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. The link for online attendance will be published in due course.

ONLINE. NO ADVANCE REGISTRATION NECESSARY

connecting link: https://www.twitch.tv/zgh2005os00676097731

Diego Navarro is a multidisciplinary artist born and living in Valencia whose works in the fields of both sound –through the composition of electronic music and sound design for contemporary media– and visual media, mainly influenced by the aesthetics of video games and fantasy.

Darío Alva is a digital artist based in Madrid whose work involves audiovisual creation and CGI. His artistic practice is influenced by a wide range of media and disciplines, mainly focused on time-image studies or attentional economies.

Laura Costas is a manufacturer of dolls and artefacts born in Vigo.
Her work revolves around toys, childhood and violence with works such as Another foolish contender, To die in the countryside or Demon baby has its mother eyes. Her production goes beyond sculpture, to encompass sound, performance or paper media.

Guillermo Ros lives and works in Alboraya. The violence inherent in the creative process lies at the centre of his work: an exercise in analogies and the imaginary, culminating in a production of epic overtones. Ros takes the concept of “lore” – typical of the language of video games where it pertains to a story or a character’s background-, and transfers it to the artistic field: the “lore” of the elements, the material, the space, the context and – last but not least – his own, presenting a mixture of references that make up his personal conceptual framework.

Past Continuous Cycle “Talk to me, body”

• Saturday, December 11, at 19h.

“Talk to me, body” is part of “Looking for Pepe”, a study started by Nazario Díaz in 2016 that begins with the figure of the Cordovan artist Pepe Espaliú (1955-1993) to deploy a series of investigations around the body, language and territory. It takes its title from the text Juan Vicente Aliaga wrote on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Pabellón Mudéjar in Seville in 1994, a year after Espaliú’s death from AIDS. The study around his person and how he developed links between his work and his circumstances, affected by the illness, in a social and political moment in full transformation, inspires a work around the matter that mutates or disappears, and the idea of wear and tear and subjection of a body understood as physical and social existence.

REGISTRATION:

Prior reservation is required at actividades@ivam.es

• Sunday, December 12, from 11 am to 2 pm.

MASTERCLASS by Nazario Díaz on his proposal “Talk to me, body”, focused on audiences interested in learning more about the details of the research, the creative process and the resulting outcome.

MASTERCLASS REGISTRATION

If you are interested, please send a letter of motivation to actividades@ivam.es.

Nazario Díaz (Linares, Jaén, 1985) develops his work mainly in the field of performing arts, focusing on the tension generated between body, gaze and writing. He is a member of Vértebro together with Juan Diego Calzada and Ángela López, with whom he curated the Beautiful Movers festival in Córdoba. As a performer he has worked with Jorge Gallardo, Isaak Erdoiza or Societat Doctor Alonso. Since 2018 he lives in Bilbao, where he participates in two collective learning contexts: PICA, a program to accompany a temporary community of artists and researchers led by Idoia Zabaleta and Luciana Chieregati, and the Invitation program, a proposal by Colectivo Qualquer to investigate and exchange methodologies and tools coming from the field of living arts. Looking for Pepe brings together previous interests around two central concepts: presence and resistance and is currently developing Otro borrado a través de la insistencia, solo, and Conversation pieces with Basque choreographer Isaak Erdoiza.

“A tower” is an exercise of approach to the construction of a castle (“castell”) from a conformation -an agreement with the form- of three bodies in particular, a multitude. This process unfolds from the union between the Muixeranga d’Algemesí and the challenge of making the human tower.

The piece can be understood as an extract of Mira Si He Corregut Terres, a theoretical-practical research in which they insist on the correlation between challenges and rites (challenges and actions carried out in the tradition)-; from the attempt to approach or understand a shared behavior in the field of the global and the local, the atavistic and the close. All this is pointed out in a practical study of the shift from tradition to tendency framed in the uses of the body, always from the body itself.

Mar Reykjavik (Sagunto, 1995). She studied Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, specialising in moving image, installation and action. She has a Master in MasterLav ‘Laboratory of contemporary audiovisual creation’ combined with the Residence for Artists of the Hidden Space, until 2018. In 2018 she was an artist in-residence at the Fundación Bilbaoarte where she developed her project WAAITT, until 2019, with which she obtains one of their awards. In 2019 she is one of the artists awarded a grant by the GVA Consorci de Museus de la Comunidad Valenciana to carry out a project within the framework of Resistències. She is in one of the residencies ‘Artists in Residence at La Casa Encendida + CA2M’

She carries out the RENDER project, together with Quiela Nuc and Jara Rocha, within the framework of the InJuve grant. Her work has been exhibited/screened in spaces nationwide such as Pols, La Gallera, Fundació La Posta, Octubre CCC and el Muvim in Valencia, CA2M, Espacio Oculto, Storm And Drunk, Casabanchel or Cineteca de Matadero in Madrid, Zumzeig Cinema in Barcelona, Fundación Bilbaoarte or El Respiradero in the Basque Country, Da2 Artium Salamanca, COAC-Fotonoviembre in Tenerife and international ones such as Galeria NGBK, Berlin or SupermarketArtFair, Stockholm or Centro Cultural el Recoleta, in Buenos Aires.

She combines artistic production with teaching in spaces such as MasterLav, MACA Master in Experimental Architecture, Woman Make or La Fotoescuela.