This year, Red Quincho will award two scholarships to Spanish artists, researchers, and curators. Spanish candidates will go through an initial selection stage by the network’s residencies and will then be selected by a tripartite jury consisting of:
David Armengol (Barcelona, 1974) is an independent curator and combines his curatorial practice with other parallel activities such as cultural management and teaching. His projects have been shown in contemporary art spaces such as Caixaforum Barcelona (2008), Matadero Madrid (2010), the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona (2012-2013), Fabra i Coats Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2014), the EAC – Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo de Montevideo, Uruguay (2015) or Bòlit Centre d’Art Contemporani de Girona (2016). She is part of the coordination team of BcnProducció-La Capella and teaches project development at IDEP Barcelona (School of Photography, Fashion and Design). He has curated an exhibition on the MACBA collection (2017-2019) and was the co-curator of the Uruguay Pavilion at the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale, 2019. Currently, he is curating a solo exhibition of Àngels Ribé and is preparing an exhibition on the 35 years of the Muestra de Artes Visuales de Injuve in Madrid and another, together with Albert Mercadé, on the artistic context of L’Hospitalet.
Marcela López Sastre (Salta, 1975) is a social communicator and art curator. She has directed the Lola Mora Art Museum in Salta since 2019. She directed the Museum of Contemporary Art MAC of Salta. She was advisor to the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage of the Government of the Province of Salta (2003). She teaches Semiotics of the Photographic Image at the Argentine School of Photography in Córdoba. Teacher of the subject of photojournalism at LA METRO; School of Film, Photography and Video, Córdoba. She is an independent curator and researches the work of artists linked to the NOA region and neighboring countries (Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil) who work on contemporary art from the perspective of cultural studies.
Carolina Cuervo (Mendoza, 1986) holds a degree in Painting from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC) and a postgraduate degree in Cultural Administration and Management from the same university. She holds a Master’s degree in Visual Arts Curatorship from the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF). Since 2012 she has been working at the Espacio de Arte of the OSDE Foundation in curatorship, management and production of exhibitions. She also works as an independent curator. Since 2010 she has been researching the role of artistic residencies in the interstice between training and installation strategies in the field. Her working perspective points to travel and displacement as methods for contemporary artistic production. In 2023 she obtained the Constelaciones Scholarship promoted by the Red de Residencias Artísticas de la Argentina, to be part of the residencies CURADORA and R.A.R.O. As an artist she also trained in the workshops of Dante Montich (Córdoba), Agustina Núñez and Magdalena Rantica (Buenos Aires). She did a workshop with Tulio de Sagastizábal and is currently an artist in residence at the Yeruá workshop (La Paternal, Buenos Aires). Lives and works in Buenos Aires.
If you are Spanish and reside in Spain, you can apply to one of the 12 residency pairs . Selected scholarship recipients will be able to develop their project in the residency pair to which they have applied for a period of one month between June and December. They will be provided with round-trip airfare from Spain to Argentina and a prize of AR$350,000.
Remember, you have until May 13 at 12.00h (ARG) to apply.
Learn about the terms and conditions by clicking here.
Learn about the terms and conditions by clicking here.
Access the application form for Spanish applicants by clicking here. For more information, visit the Constelaciones Scholarship section on our website by clicking here.