Verónica Lahitte (AR / ES)

About:

Verónica Lahitte (Buenos Aires, 1980). Her work investigates forms of writing, enunciation, and disappropriation, establishing specific logics designed for each context. She has presented her work in museums and art centers such as Palais de Glace (Buenos Aires), Kunstuniversität (Linz), Württ. Kunstverein Stuttgart, Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi (Copenhagen), Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and Arts Santa Mónica (Barcelona), among others. Between 2015 and 2017 she was a research resident and professor in the Department of Critical Theory and Experimental Practices at the University of the Arts, Guayaquil. She was selected as the residence Baden Württemberg Catalunya (Stuttgart, 2017) and received a grant from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (Buenos Aires, 2017). She was part of the collective www.minipimer.tv, and founding member of Diásporas críticas. She recently published the book “Wagschale der Zeit und Ewigkeit” (V___erlag für Handbücher, 2018).

Education:

Verónica Lahitte has a Masters in Critical Theory and Museum Studies (PEI, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona) and a Masters in Literature Theory and Comparative Literature (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona).

Selected exhibitions:

2018 – “Explosionszeichnungen”, performance at the Theater Rampe in Stuttgart, Germany.
2017 – “Eine neue Zunge”, collective exhibition at Wurtt. Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany.
2016 – “The Battle”, performance at Muégano teatro, Guayaquil, Ecuador
2016 – “Ne travaillez jamais”, collective exhibition at ADN Platform gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
2015 – “Translocacions”, collective exhibition at Arts Santa Mónica, Barcelona, Spain.
2015 – “Kill Fear & Fem”, screening with Diásporas críticas, envisioned for no.w.here, London, England.
2015 –  “Radio Free Europe”, performance with Diásporas críticas at “Feminist, queer, and postcolonial subjectivities in contemporary art: a history in motion”, European University of Brittany – Rennes, France.
2015 – “Descolona”, collective exhibition at Galería Colona, Barcelona.

The residency of Verónica Lahitte is a part of the project The New Dictionary of Old Ideas.

Date of residency: 4. 6.–31. 7. 2019