Institut für Kunstgeschichte

Kunstgeschichte der Moderne und der Gegenwart

M.A. Maria Georgina Sánchez Celaya

Wissenschaftliche Assistentin

Abteilung für Kunstgeschichte der Moderne und der Gegenwart

Telefon
+41 31 684 55 04
E-Mail
maria.sanchezcelaya@unibe.ch
Büro
153
Postadresse
Institut für Kunstgeschichte
Mittelstrasse 43
3012 Bern

Research Interests

  • The "Ecological Imperative" and Environmental Humanities
  • Ritual performance in contemporary art (1960 - present)
  • Socioenvironmental movements and visual culture
  • (Eco)feminist art, decolonial theory, and Indigenous cosmopolitics
  • Latin American contemporary art
  • Museum and exhibition history

Aktivitäten

Exhibition projects

2018 – ongoing M68 Ciudadanías en movimiento (M68 Citizenships in Motion). University Cultural Center Tlatelolco (CCU Tlatelolco, UNAM).

2018 – Imaginemos lo imposible. Movimiento estudiantil de 1968, 50 aniversario (Imagine the impossible. Student movement of 1968, 50th anniversary). Museo Regional de Querétaro.

2018 – Disrupciones desde el archivo: 5 visiones artísticas del movimiento estudiantil de 1968 (Disruptions from the archive: 5 artistic visions of the student movement of 1968), Museo de Antropología de Xalapa.

2015 - 2017 – La ciudad está allá afuera. Demolición, ocupación y utopía (The City Is Out There. Demolition, Occupation, and Utopia) University Cultural Center Tlatelolco (CCU Tlatelolco, UNAM) Museo de Arte de Sinaloa.

2017 – Mexibility. Research and photographic workshop on hidden and unperceived mobility), a project created with artist Armin Linke. Goethe-Institut, and The Cultural Center Tlatelolco (CCU Tlatelolco, UNAM). Publication: Mexibility: We Are in the City, We Cannot Leave.

Memberships

  • Association of Art Historians in Switzerland (VKKS)
  • The Swiss School of Latin American Studies (SSLAS)

Lectures

12/21 “Exit: An Installation on Populations Shifts, Ecocide and Linguicide”, SSLAS PhD Workshop, Migración: cruzando fronteras – construyendo espacios (Migration: Crossing Borders – Constructing Spaces).

10/19 “Art, environmental issues and commodity aesthetics. Overseas/En Ultramar, a project by Minerva Cuevas about bottled water.” 8º Encuentro Universitario del Agua “Investigación de frontera para la seguridad hídrica” (8th University Water Meeting “Frontier research for water security”), Red del Agua UNAM, Ciudad de México.

12/17 “La representación del cuerpo femenino en la nota roja” (“The Representation of the Female body in the nota roja”), Mal de Imagen, international symposium about the nota roja (crime press) and the contemporary artistic practices. Centro de la Imagen, Ciudad de México.

09/13 “Kuntswollen, voluntad de forma: el concepto alemán que dio estructura a las exposiciones de arte mexicano. El guión curatorial de Fernando Gamboa” (“Kuntswollen, will of form: the German concept that gave structure to the Mexican art exhibits”). XXXVI Encuentro Nacional de Estudiantes de Historia (History Students National Meeting), Faculty of Philosophy, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro.

Publikationen

2021 “Project Iceworm, Anastasia Mitsyukova. Riesgo latente de desastre nuclear”, (“Project Iceworm, Anastasia Mitsyukova. A latent risk of nuclear disaster”), Revista de la Universidad de México, March, 2021.
https://www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/9a9ab8cd-5c8c-4ba1-88e5-e33549bec318/project-iceworm-anastasia-mityukova

2020 “M68 desde el afecto” (“M68 From the Affects”), in Revista Antidogma, Mexico, Universidad de la Comunicación, year 1 no. 2, October 2019–February 2020.
https://issuu.com/universidaddelacomunicacion/docs/antidogma-nro2/22

2020 “Sanar en un lugar seguro. Crónica en 5 tiempos sobre el Segundo Encuentro Internacional de Mujeres que Luchan”, (Heal in a Safe Place. Chronicle in 5 Times about the Second International Meeting of Women Who Fight) in Revista Antidogma, México, Universidad de la Comunicación, year 1 no. 3, February – June 2020.
https://issuu.com/universidaddelacomunicacion/docs/antidogma_3_digital

2014 “Más allá de la filantropía: el nacimiento del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey" (“Beyond philanthropy: the birth of the Contemporary Art Museum in Monterrey”), in Discurso Visual, third period, no. 34, pp. 32–40. National Research, Documentation and Information Center for Visual Arts (CENIDIAP), National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA), Mexico, July–December, 2014.
http://www.discursovisual.net/dvweb34/TT_03Georgina.html

2014 “Oro no vale más que agua. Idea obvia e infalible que, sin embargo debe ser demostrada” (“Gold is not worthier than water. Obvious and infallible idea that, nonetheless, must be proven”), en Sphinx, Suplemento de Bioética, chapter on Baja California Sur, period 2 no. 25. Mexican National Academy of Bioethics (ANMB), January 2014.

2013 “Ironías del Poder. El caso José Luis Cuevas” (“Ironies of Power. José Luis Cuevas case”), in Discurso Visual, second period, no. 22. National Research, Documentation and Information Center for Visual Arts (CENIDIAP), National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA), Mexico, July–October, 2013.
http://www.discursovisual.net/dvweb22/agora/agogeorgina.htm

Lebenslauf

01/2015 – 05/2017 M.A. in Art History—Specialized in Curatorial Studies. Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (FFyL), UNAM. Graduate with Honors.
  Dissertation: “Art, environmental issues and commodity aesthetics. Overseas/En Ultramar, a project by Minerva Cuevas about bottled water. (in Spanish) Honorary Mention for Best Dissertation on Water Resources at the Fernando J. González Villarreal Award by UNAM, 2019.
08/2007– 09/2014 B.A. in History. Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (FFyL), UNAM. Graduate with Honors.
  Dissertation: “Francis Alÿs and José Luis Cuevas historical context and analysis of two art exhibitions. 1979 and 2006.” (in Spanish). National Award Miguel Covarrubias for Best B.A. Thesis on Museography and Museums Research awarded by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), 2015.