CV

Rossana Mercado-Rojas (Peru, 1982)

Artist / Cultural worker based in Sweden.

Member of Hysterix, women art collective from Peru

Board member of Galleri Majkens, feminist art gallery in Stockholm.

Participates on K.ö.K. (KVINNOR ÖNSKAR KOLLEKTIVITET – WOMEN DESIRE COLLECTIVITY) Tensta, Sweden.

Recent Projects

Waqay, Research project and ritual action at Venice (Nov 2019)
La Gozadera, festivity, reseilience and loudness. Live painting and intervention at Rudgang, KKH (Nov 2019)
Home is where the heart is/ HEMMA ÄR DÄR HJÄRTAT BOR /El hogar es donde está el corazón – Installation and action at the opening of Mindepartementet, Stockholm (September 2019)
“Sin Nombre” performance at “Konst-tid” organized by IntraGalactic arts collective, Edsåsdalen, Sweden (August 2019)
“Abrazo” sound collage presented as part of Occam’s Razor (with CPS) at Platform Studios and Eric Ericsson hallen (May 2019)
Mural at Spring Beast Festival, Snösätra, Stockholm (May 2019)
Workshop AT K.Ö.K (KVINNOR ÖNSKAR KOLLEKTIVITET – WOMEN DESIRE COLLECTIVITY) at Tensta, Stockholm (April 2019)
”Collective Performance with CPS and Tarek Atoui at CIMAM, Moderna Museet (2018) and at VAC foundation, Venice (2019)
“Poner el cuerpo” (Embodiment of women) performance at Faculty of Action by IntraGallactic Arts Collective at Nordic Guest Studio Malongen (Stockholm, 2018)

SOLO SHOWS

Hysteriska Historiska. ABF Huset – 2018
Buitre: de Bulimias y Carroñas (Vulture: Of bulimia and Carrion) Municipality gallery Pancho Fierro Lima, Perú 2009

GROUP SHOWS

Giro Panfronterizo. With Collectives from Peru, Chile and Bolivia. Shown at Gabriela Mistral gallery. Santiago de Chile (2019)
Todas las violencias todas (All kinds of violence, all). Espacio Los Unicos. Lima, Peru – 2017
Odio a todos los que aman (I hate those who love) Faro Tláhuac . Mexico DF – 2013
Stulti4era Navis: “La Nave de los Locos” w/Paola Torres Nuñez del Prado – Pancho Fierro municipality gallery – Lima 2007

Feminist camp at Visviri (Chile), as part of Giro Panfronterizo project with Collective Pezones metralleta (Bolivia), artist Katia Sepúlveda y mapuche artist Margarita Calfio. 2018-2019
Mural at National University San Marcos for Legalizing Abortion in Peru and reproductive rights, 2018
Crimenes Legales (Legal crimes) Performance and Muralization in La Munay, Feminist Space, by Chola Contravisual. Huancayo – 2017
Femicide. Mural for the XIII Feminist Encounter of America and the Caribbean and the day of Nonviolence against women. Cercado de Lima , Peru – 2014
I hate those who love. Collective exhibition and intervention at Faro Tláhuac. Mexico DF. – 2013

Post Master course Composing/Public/Space at Kungl. Konsthögskolan (2018- in process)
Master in Fine Arts (Curatorial practices and Critical writing ) – Konstfack University Of Arts, Crafts And Design Stockholm, Sweden – 2012
B.A Painting – Pontificia Universidad Catolica Del Peru – 2008
B.A Biology – Cayetano Heredia University (unfinished) – 1999 – 2000
Diploma of Management– Peruvian Institute of Management. Lima, Peru 2015

Workshop “Public Relations in international cultural work” by Aimée Brons. Goethe-Institut Peru, 2017
Course Law and Gender. Circle of Feminist Studies. UNMSM, 2017
Mapping Workshop by Fidel Eljuri in Centro Fundación Telefónica, Lima. 2015
Workshop “body Expression with technological tools”. Cultural Center of Spain of Lima. 2011

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

Artificialeza. First solo show of artist Julio Cotrina in Centro Colich. Lima, Peru – 2017
Conjunctions: Symbolic. Individual exhibition by artist Brian Silva at the Colich Center. Lima, Peru – 2013
Knitting Matter. Graduation Project for MFA at Konstfack University. Stockholm, Sweden – 2011
Calandria de Fuego: contemporary creators in dialogue with Arguedas. Co-curatorship – Lima, 2011
Medium Rare. Konstfack Galeri, Stockholm, Sweden – 2009

ART&CULTURE PROJECTS

MALVINAZO FESTIVAL Co creator of the rock and hiphop platform “Malvinazo” that seeks to impulse cultural agents (musicians, dancers, urban artists, etc.) in different public spaces. Lima, Peru – 2012/2016
SEXUANTES FESTIVAL Co-creation and development of the international festival focused on Art, Body and Politics that brought together artists from Sweden, Spain. Germany, Colombia, Chile and Ecuador. Circuito Norte Space. Lima, Peru – 2012

ART&PEDAGOGY

Proffesor at Social Communication Faculty at The National University of San Marcos (UNMSM) – Lima, 2018
Portfolio Creation, principles of Curatorial pracices and Cultural management laboratory, School of Art and Design Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru – Lima, 2017
PUNKU: ART AND CULTURE dedicated to the development of activities related to art and pedagogy in public spaces. 2012-2015

Production and Assistant

CASA TIERRA ACTIVA. Manager of the convergence house within the framework of the COP20 In charge of Coordination of spaces and agenda. Development of logistics plan, budget and management of donations . Lima, Peru – 2014
Pedagogical manager of the Culture Area at PARKS OF LIME SERVICE Responsible for the educational project of performing and visual arts “Escuelas CREALIMA”- Lima 2014
Cultural Manager of the Culture Area at PARKS OF LIMA SERVICE. Lima 2012-2014

TALKS AND CONFERENCES

Workshop AT K.Ö.K (KVINNOR ÖNSKAR KOLLEKTIVITET – WOMEN DESIRE COLLECTIVITY)at TENSTA HJULSTA / ESTOCOLMO
Art, resilience and activism: Women Artists & Collectives – Peru. Talk at Iaspis Konstnärsnämnden. Stockholm, Sweden – 2017
Criar:Crear. Talk at finissage of “Mothers, the personal is political”. Galleri Majkens. Stockholm, Sweden – 2017
Espacio Idea de Conecta. Speaker at as representative of project Malvinaso- Ministry of Culture. Cercado de Lima – 2016
The telenovela as a constructor of gender roles in Latin America. Speaker at conference in Faro Tlahuac. Mexico. – 2013.
‘We are on the streets’. Speaker at the conference organized by the municipality of Lima, which brought together different Latin American representatives specialists in female urban art – 2012
Form and Concept / Art and Politics. Speaker in Conversatory organized by the Latin American Critical group. Columbia University, New York, USA. – 2011

PUBLICATIONS

Mala Mujer: Sinister Networking in Women’s underground scene in Lima. Published in Reptilhjärnan #666. Gothenburg, Sweden – 2017
Hysterix Manifesto. Article on public art and gender in the virtual publication “Crítica Latinoamericana”.Columbia University, NY , USA-2012