Aimée Zito Lema| Amsterdam | The Nederlands | Bs. As. | Argentina.
5de saizoen short movie 1
RIETVELD FOR IMPA short kl
Rehearsing Voices
Changing Voices/Other Voices (short)
About the work
My interest as a visual artist lies at the intersection of art and social reality, using this as a basis for my artistic practice, focusing on issues such as ethics, collaboration, marginal groups or political conflicts.
A family story between dictatorship and democracy, life between two countries, (Argentina and The Netherlands) cultures of wealth and poverty, are all elements I use as an archive, both personal and social. I do not always work through a static ordering of this archive, but more often through constant reassessment and rearrangement of the elements.
I take an active role in the investigation/research, by traveling or getting involved in a certain situation I’m interested in.
I’m not bound to any specific medium and deploy those methods and strategies that are most adequate to an individual issue I seek to address.
Curriculum Vitae Aimée Zito Lema
Aimée Zito Lema, born in Amsterdam in 1982, grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Studied Art at the ‘EBARY’ (Escuela de Bellas Artes Rogelio Yrurtia), the IUNA (University of Arts Buenos Aires), the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and at the Wimbledon College (University of the Arts) London. She works with performance and installations, and has hade various shows at museums and gallery’s from Europe and Argentina.
In 2009 she organized several performance workshops at different art schools in Argentina, and the University of Buenos Aires.
In the same year she has shown her work at the Sivori Museum (ARG) as part of a collective exhibition organized by Amnesty International, has also been invited to participate in a debate on Cultural Identity, (organized in Buenos Aires at the PROA Foundation, by the Mondriaan Stichting and The Prins Claus Fonds), and has been honored with a subsidy from the FBKVB (The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture).
From September 2009 she is following a Master Course Artistic Research at the Royal Academy in The Hague (NL).
Lives and works between Amsterdam and Buenos Aires
2009: Participate in a debate on Cultural Identity, organized in Buenos Aires by the Mondriaan Stichting and The Prins Claus Fonds at the PROA Foundation.
2008: Proyecto Universales. Collective show organized by Amnesty International. Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. Museo Sivori. (ARG)
Honoured with a Productiesubsidie from the FBKVB (The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture).
Member of the MudPie Artistic Research group for the Lectoraat Kunst in de Openbare Ruimte from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.
MudPie Presentation, at Gallery W139, Amsterdam (NL).
Solo exhibitions:
2009: Invited for a solo show at the WM Gallery, Amsterdam (NL).
2008: Onschuld en wreedheid. Kuntur Gallery, Amsterdam (NL).
2008: Nostalgia and Chaos. Interactive project on Argentinean culture. Mediamatic Post CS, Amsterdam. (NL)
Other group exhibitions, performances and collaborations:
2009: Performance at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires. During an event on art and mental health. (ARG)
Worked on the production, stage settings, and art in the theatre project ¨Apuntes sobre Medea¨. (ARG)
2008: Curriculum Cero. Group Show. Ruth Benzacar gallery. (ARG)
Group show 1141 Magnetic Field curated by artist Christiaan Bastiaans. Gist-projectruimte, Brummen (NL).
Group show De Mystificering van het Nu. Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen (NL).
Performance: Would Art be easier if you could eat it? at the Andy Warhol event at K-Swiss, Amsterdam (NL).
The Lucky Traveller’s Hotel, group exhibition from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam) and the Academy of Fine Arts (Maastricht) Landbouwbelang, Maastricht (NL).
2007: Graduation show. Rietveld Academy (NL).
Wimbledon Erasmus Show. London (UK).
Rietveld Exhibition at the Oude Kerk Amsterdam (NL).
Project Aware. Amsterdam (NL).
2006: Group show. P///AKT Gallery. Amsterdam (NL).
Group show at IUNA. (In Memoriam of the military coup of 1976 and the 30.000 missing people) (ARG).
Performance: Dutch Flag, at the Horse Move Project Space. Nacht Kracht Festival. PostCS Building. Amsterdam (NL).
Le Petit Festival. Museum Vlaho Bukovak. Dubrovnik (CROATIA).
Performance at Club Odeon. Amsterdam (NL).
2005: Costume and set design for the theatre play El Bronce que Sonríe by Vicente Zito Lema. Buenos Aires (ARG).
Installation at The Sugar Factory. Amsterdam. (NL)
2004: Participates in a FLUXUS performance evening, held at the Hilton Hotel, Amsterdam (NL).
2002: Costume and set design for the theatre play Una Carretilla de Música by Vicente Zito Lema. Universidad Popular Madres de Plaza de Mayo (ARG)
2000: Collective exhibition at the Centro Cultural Recoleta. Buenos Aires. (ARG)
Art Studies:
2008: Participates in the ‘art discussion’ (clinica de obra) classes given by Argentinean artist Luis Felipe Noé.
2003-2007: Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Fine Arts department. Amsterdam. (NL)
2007: Erasmus exchange at Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts. London. (UK)
2004: Participates in an art performance workshop by FLUXUS group.
2000-2003: IUNA. (National Arts Institute) Buenos Aires. (ARG)
1995-2000: EBARY. Secondary School of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires. (ARG)
