MARIA PAULA MALDONADO MENDOZA
(she/her)
BIO
b. 1988 Bogotá, Colombia.
Artist, researcher and cultural manager currently living and working in Berlin, Germany. She holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from Los Andes University in Bogotá, Colombia, and an M.F.A. in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany, led by Prof. Danica Dakić.
Through her projects, she approaches topics such as the possible upcoming environmental and social catastrophes, environment and ecology, hope, data and surveillance, and the construction of identities. Her work combines various new and traditional media including site-specific interventions and installations, publications, collage, texts, printmaking, painting, actions in public space and archiving, among others. She has exhibited her work in individual and group exhibitions in Germany, Colombia and Online.
In parallel to her artistic practice, she has worked as a cultural manager and art advisor at the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, and at the art consultant firm Paralelo 10 in Bogotá, Colombia.
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EDUCATION
2020 • M.F.A. in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies. Prof. Danica Dakić. Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Germany.
2012 • B.A. in Fine Arts and Minor in Philosophy. Los Andes University, Bogotá, Colombia.
PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2023 • From the sky. Over and Over. Group exhibition at Haus der Statistik, Berlin, Germany.
2023 • Open Library Days at the Bauhaus Weeks, Bibliothek der Künstler*innen, Weimar (Library of FLINTA* Artists, Weimar). Stéphane-Hessel-Platz, Weimar, Germany.
2023 • On being ruderal. Make-up, Berlin, Germany. A lecture performance in collaboration with Thomas Mayer, in the framework of the program Ruderal Practices.
2023 • Wer ist diese frau? / Who is this woman? Exhibition, Bibliothek der Künstler*innen, Weimar (Library of FLINTA* Artists, Weimar). 11m3, Weimar, Germany.
2022 • Ruderal Dinner. Make-up, Berlin, Germany. In collaboration with Thomas Mayer and Michelle Madsen.
2022 • Elements of Coexistence. Make-up, Berlin, Germany. In collaboration with Elham Asadpour.
2022 • Discovery Map, Bibliothek der Künstler*innen, Weimar (Library of FLINTA* Artists, Weimar). Frauenplan, Weimar, Germany.
2022 • Ruderal Practices. Make-up, part of Project Space Festival 22, Berlin, Germany. Artistic co-curating with Sarah Godfrey.
2021–Ongoing • Bibliothek der Künstler*innen, Weimar (Library of FLINTA* Artists, Weimar), Germany. In collaboration with Sophie Foster.
2021 • Kurzgesagt, in vollem Umfang (In a nutshell, to the fullest extent). Solo exhibition, Online.
2021 • Navigation durch Umrisse (Navigation through contours). Solo exhibition, 11m3, Weimar, Germany.
2020 • BUNKERS: Architecture of fear, architecture of hope. Master thesis project. Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Germany.
2019 • The Bird Choir - Mimicking Is Surviving, in collaboration with Angélica Camargo Flórez. Walk of Art. Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Germany.
2019 • I come from… 4. Berliner Herbstsalon. DE-HEIMATIZE IT! Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany.
2019 • I come from… Imaginary Bauhaus Museum. Schiller Museum, Weimar, Germany.
2019 • The Moon, in collaboration with Denise Lee and Lucía Diegó. Imaginary Bauhaus Museum. Schiller Museum, Weimar, Germany.
2018 • No todo brilla (Not everything shines). Solo exhibition, Doce Cero Cero Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia.
2017 • Plumarias (Featherworks). Doce Cero Cero Gallery Stand, Bogotá Art Fair, ArtBO, Bogotá, Colombia.
2017 • Plumarias (Featherworks). Solo exhibition, Doce Cero Cero Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia.
2015 • Estéticas histriónicas (Histrionic Aesthetics). Solo exhibition, Más Allá independent space, Bogotá, Colombia.
2013 • Montañas de Los Andes (Andes Mountains). Sierra Nevada del Cocuy peaks Rita 'k Uwa Blanco (5330 masl), Picacho (5030 masl) and Puntiagudo (5200 masl). VI Salón de Arte Bidimensional. Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño –FUGA–, Bogotá, Colombia.
2011 • Tres retratos de mujer (Three portraits of a woman). V Salón de Arte Bidimensional. Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño –FUGA–, Bogotá, Colombia.
2011 • Illuminare. *Stroke of luck*, Bachelors’ Final Degree Projects. Los Andes University, Bogotá, Colombia.
SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS
2022 • NEUSTART KULTUR-Stipendium für freischaffende bildende Künstler:innen, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany.
2021 • Sonderstipendium für Künstler:innen. Kulturstiftung des Freistaats Thüringen, Germany.
2020 • President's Scholarship, Scholarship for dedicated international students. Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Germany.
2020 • STIBET Teilstipendium, DAAD. Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Germany.
AFFILIATIONS
2022-2023 • Part of the collective Make-up e.V. Berlin, Germany.
TEACHING & WORKSHOPS
2024 • Opening the archive: hidden narratives of artefacts reinterpreted creatively. Co-Lecturer with Sophie Foster. Spring School, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Germany.
2019 • You don’t Wash your Dirty Laundry in Public. Co-Lecturer with Constanza Carvajal and Carlos Santos, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Germany.
WORK EXPERIENCE
2023–Ongoing • Part of the team of Basement - Raum für Kunst. Berlin, Germany.
2023 • Project Manager. For the program "Ruderal Practices". Make-up e.V. Berlin, Germany.
2021 • Graphic Designer. IWM - Gesellschaft für Internationale Wirtschaftsförderung und Management, Erfurt, Germany.
2020–2021 • Student Assistant, Intercultural Competence. Bauhaus Universität Weimar, International Office, Weimar, Germany.
2017–2018 • Arts Advisor. Ministry of Culture, Arts Office, Bogotá, Colombia.
2014–2017 • Visual Arts Advisor. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cultural Affairs Office, Bogotá, Colombia.
2012–2013 • Assistant. Paralelo 10, Bogotá, Colombia.