Ana Álvarez-Errecalde

Bahía Blanca (Argentina), 1973

Period of residence: January 2008 – 2010

Ana Alvarez-Errecalde was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina and lives in Barcelona.

Her artistic work, which includes photography, video and installations has been shown in the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (CCCB), Foment de les Arts i del Disseny (FAD) and the Centro de Arte Santa Mónica (Barcelona), Sala El Águila, Feria Estampa and Canal de Isabel II (Madrid), the European Women Lobby (Brussels), the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) and the Centro Cultural de Spain in Buenos Aires (CCEBA).

Her work is part of private collections and has been published in catalogues, books and newspapers (La Vanguardia, El Periódico and Público).

Her book of photography, titled Cesárea, más allá de la Herida (Caesarean, beyond the wound), produced in collaboration with the Asociación El Parto es Nuestro (Birth is Ours Association) and edited by Ob Stare, has received excellent reviews at an international level.

She has received awards and/or been selected at European Women Lobby, Photo Competition 2010, Brussels, Belgium; Festival de la Luz, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Premio Joven UCM and Premio Miguel Casablancas; Certámenes de Arte de Orense and Albacete; the Biennials Galería Clave Murcia and Móstoles City Council, Spain.

“Dokumentarfilm” Kassel, “The Tank” Nueva York, MALBA, “Videoformes” Clermont-Francia, Vodjdavina Museum, Serbia, SFWMM San Francisco, BCNvisualsound, REC Festival, Tarragona and VAD Festival Girona have shown her documentary videos. SNC Films selected one of her scripts as finalist.

She has been awarded production grants by: Third World Newsreel (N.Y); EADC and Conca (BCN) and Madrid/procesos/redes AVAM (Madrid); resident artist grants at Hangar, Fabra i Coats and La Escocesa (BCN) and as well as a grant from Internacionalización de la Cultura Española (AECID).

Ana Alvarez-Errecalde is mother of 3 children who are the source of inexostable inspiration.

alvarezerrecalde(at)gmail.com

http://www.alvarezerrecalde.com