Artista

Irene Kopelman

1974 en Cordoba, Argentina
Irene Kopelman, Radiolarians from Scott´s Expedition, 2011
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Reside en Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Holanda
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Descripción del Artista
Irene Kopelman was born in Cordoba, Argentina, in 1974. She studied at the School of Arts at the National University of Cordoba where she obtained her bachelor's and master's degree in painting (1994 - 2002). In 2002, Kopelman was accepted within the two-year international residency program at the Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. She currently divides her time between Amsterdam, Argentina and the regions where her work and research take her. In the Netherlands, Kopelman began researching the representations of landscapes as recorded by 18th and 19th century naturalists. This period of exploration, during the age of the Enlightenment, is richly archived in museums across the world. A series of collaborations within museum collections such as the Geological Museum (Artis, Amsterdam), the Entomological Collection (University of Amsterdam-UvA), the Teylers Museum (Haarlem), the Natural History Museum in London and the Astronomical Observatory in Cordoba (Argentina) led towards various projects including exhibitions such ... as ‘Levity’ at The Drawing Centre, New York (2007), ’Nameless Science’ at Apex Art, New York (2008), ‘Planet of Signs’, Le Plateau, Paris (2009), ‘The Challenger's Report’, Gasworks, London (2012) and ‘Chiral Garden’, La Verriere Fondation D’Entrerprise Hermes, Brussels (2013). After several years of working with museum collections, Kopelman became curious about the process of personally confronting the landscape. This line of questioning led to projects such as ‘The Levy’s Flight’ (2009), which began with an exploration of the lava-fields in Hawaii’s national park on the Island of Hawaii. In 2010, Kopelman embedded herself within a polar research team on a sailing boat headed to Antarctica from Argentina. She worked plein-air within the Antarctic landscape. ‘50 Metres Distance or More’ was the resulting exhibition that encompassed a series of drawings, paintings and an eponymously titled artist book. Her interest in interdisciplinary practices led her, together with the artist Mariana Castillo Deball, to form Uqbar Foundation – a platform for constructing dialogue between different fields of knowledge. This resulted in projects such as ‘Zeno Reminder’, an installation at Performa 09, New York (2009) and the exhibition ‘A for Alibi’, de Appel, Amsterdam (2007) amongst others. Kopelman has always believed in drawing as a tool for understanding the world around her and in art as a form of knowledge. Such a belief-system steered her towards an ongoing collaboration with Roma Publications. A serialised set of artist books titled ‘Notes on Representation’ ensued and continues. Consequent to this view was her pursuit of a Ph.(D) in Fine Arts in partnership with the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design and The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, completed in 2011. Her proximity to institutions led Kopelman to begin observing the methodologies of scientists at work in the field and ignited curiosity as to how they framed and organized a subject that was vast, essentially dispersed, extremely dynamic and simply too hidden to grasp or approach all at once. This led Kopelman to spend a period of time at Manu Learning Centre, Madre de Dios, Peru in 2012, following which she joined a group of 40 scientists from Malaysia’s Sabah Parks and The Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis (NCB) on an expedition to Mount Kinabalu in Malaysia. A long-term collaboration with STRI (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) in Panama began in 2012 and continues. STRI has developed an extensive infrastructure for the study of biodiversity on the Panamanian Isthmus and Kopelman's partnership with this institution has enabled her to explore subjects such as lianas, marine invasive species, mangroves and fiddler crabs particular to the region. An association with the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) and the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) have helped inform and propel her study of glacier landscapes and alpine ecosystems. This development occurred over a period of residency at the Stiftung Laurenz-Haus, Basel in 2013. One of the main aspects of nature lies in its constant change, creating new forms, patterns and variations. Scientists who study nature identify these patterns and set up large-scale and long-term experiments to follow these changes over the course of time. Working close to them entails the artist entering their rhythm. For instance, the shapes of glaciers become visible only in summer when the overlying snow melts. Crabs leave traces of their feeding visible only at low tide. Seasons, weather conditions and environmental features create constrictions, for the scientist and the artist. The process of drawing (actual and metaphorical) while exposed to such constrictions has gradually become one of the core aspects of Kopelman’s practice.

 

 

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28 nov de 2023 - 31 ago de 2024

Madrid, España

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Desde 21 mar de 2024

Galería Elvira González / Madrid, España

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21 sep de 2023 - 04 jul de 2024

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) / Madrid, España

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