Alberto Baraya
Artist
The Colombian artist Alberto Baraya questions with his installations, videos, drawings and the use of found objects, the scientific classification of plants in the name of science and challenges post-colonial society. Alberto works as a lecturer and teacher in Bogotá.
Andrés Pineda
Performing Artist
Andrés studied Performing Arts. He is father, son, companion and sower, dancer, actor and playwright, pedagogue with experience in the design and implementation of alternative curricula aimed at various population groups, cultural manager and researcher. Lover of the jungle and indigenous culture, faithful believer in dialogue and the exchange of knowledge aimed at rebuilding a conscious, fraternal and harmonious humanity.
Bayron Orrego Chica
Anthropologist and Cultural Manager
Bayron develops research and social intervention processes in the Northwest Amazon on intercultural education, community communication, political participation and governance. It is a cultural dynamizer, focused on research processes –creation around manifestations such as traditional dance, oral narration, mythology and heritage–. He has produced written, visual and sound pedagogical material for intercultural educational processes in the Vaupés region.
Carolina Riaño Gómez
Singer and Musician
Carolina Riaño Gómez was born in Bogotá, Colombia and studied music theatre at the University of Arts Folkwang in Essen, Germany. She has stage experience, among others, with the Vienna Chamber Choir, Choir of the Baden-Baden Festival, as a soloist at the Opera in Dortmund and Düsseldorf and at the theatre Schaubühne in Berlin. In the Latin-American music area, she has participated in the A Capella band "Chocolate com Laranja" and in the duo with the Chilean Rodrigo Santa María.
Christoph Schletz
Production
After theatre studies with Philippe Gaulier in London, Christoph produced and directed numerous plays in Passau, where he graduated in European Studies. After working as Robert Wilson's personal assistant and assistant director, Christoph now works closely with Thomas Ostermeier at Berlin's Schaubühne.
Daniel Castilla Galán
Composer
Daniel Castilla Galán is a versatile composer for audiovisual media and musical productions. He dominates workflows in design processes and sound montages, both for film formats and for unconventional stages and events.
Elizabeth Gallón Droste
Researcher and visual artist
Born in Bogotá and based in Berlin. My artistic investigations are situated in specific territories and focus on collective processes of longing/belonging, (dis)learning and collaboration. I explore stories told by territories and ecosystems, woven by multiple beings, materialities and processes, where diverse onto-epistemologies meet in the planetary socio-ecological wefts. Through projects based on experiential knowledge and fieldwork, I use texts, listening sessions, sound walks and workshops to listen to the plurality of worlds shaped by (in)material forces, such as oralities, memories, myths, family archives and affective ecologies more-than-human.
Fernando Arias
Artist
Fernando Arias is a visual artist who investigates the human condition through the means of video, photography, installation and action. Conflict, sexuality, religion, politics and society, are recurring themes in his work. He currently lives between Bogotá and the Nuquí, where he creates with Más Arte Más Acción and in cooperation with artists and writers that engage in social and environmental topics, interdisciplinary artistic projects.
Fernando Pertuz
Artist
Colombian Artist, Cultural Manager and Activist interested in the relations art, thought, social reflection and contexts. Director and Manager Casa Guillermo 1998-2000, Founder and Manager of the World Archive of Performance PAS 2007-2020, Founder and Manager of International Biennial of Performance PerfoARTnet 2008-2020, Director and Manager of the project Art Socially Committed. Pertuz researches and publishes since 2007 in diverse media and magazines. Pertuz has done performance, urban intervention and work with communities since the nineties. The participation of spectators and communities is fundamental in the development of the proposal.
Javier Ortiz Bahamón
Environmental Expert
Javier Ortiz Bahamón is an Economist, MBA and Specialist in Rural Development, and has worked as a consultant in conservation and rural development for private and public institutions in Colombia, with emphasis in the Amazon Region.
Juanita Delgado
Cantante y Músico
Juanita es cantante, músico de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá y cuenta con una especialización en Composición y arreglos de Jazz de Berklee School of Music. Se ha dedicado a estudiar la música de tradición popular de diferentes partes de Colombia y América. Su música se ha podido escuchar en diferentes teatros al rededor del mundo. Actualmente estudia la Maestría Interdisciplinar en Teatro y Artes Vivas en la Universidad Nacional en Bogotá.
Martin Meyer
Photographer
Martin is a freelance photographer with the topics of travel photography focused on photojournalism and art photography. Martin has been part of the SINFONÍA TRÓPICO Festivals since 2015, documenting the daily life of the workshops until he final presentations. He lives in Regensburg, Germany.
María McCausland
Journalist
Social Communicator from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogota with an emphasis on organizational, music and performing arts. Journalist and presenter of the entertainment section of Caracol News from 2017 to 2020 and host of the Bla Bla Blu program on Blu radio in the second half of 2020. She currently works as independent press officer and head of public relations for different artists and personalities, while recording his first music album.
Miguel Cárdenas
Artist
Miguel Cardenas is an artist from Bogotá. He obtained his painting degree at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2005 he obtained a master's degree in visual arts at Columbia University and received the prize Agnes Martin in painting. In 2007 he joined as a lecturer in the Department of Visual Arts at Columbia University. His work has been exhibited in the collection of the Museum of Pereira, the Art Museum of Cartagena and the permanent collection of the Banco de la República in Bogotá.
Miguel Navas
Musician and Composer
Miguel Navas is a colombian composer and music producer. Miguel’s work is notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional Colombian music.
Nelson Vergara
Artist
Nelson Vergara investigates the development of reactive and generative systems for objects and media rooms, the relation between time and space and his body and media languages. Nelson is professor at the Department of Arts from the National University of Colombia, Bogotá, and is guest lecturer at the University of Arts and Media of Cologne.
Nils Ostendorf
Musician and Composer
Nils Ostendorf has developed a unique approach to playing the trumpet, inspired by natural sounds, experimental and electronic music. He also works internationally as a composer, musical director, producer and live performer for theatre and dance productions, collaborating with directors like Mikael Serre, Marius von Mayenburg, Yael Ronen and Thomas Ostermeier.
Peter Ruehle
Artist
Peter Ruehle is a Berlin based painter. Mainly working in classic techniques, he is also working with new media and materials. Peter is working in series: e.g. he developed a unique form of land- and cityscape paintings as well as dark portraits, time chronicles, collages and sky paintings. Peter's works are represented in eminent collections and have been shown in cities like Berlin, New York, Beijing, New Delhi, Rome and Los Angeles.
René Arriaga
Dancer and Choreographer
René is a dancer and choreographer with more than 18 years of experience in traditional Afro, Colombian and Cuban dance. He has studied with renowned dancers and finished his dance studies at ISA in la Habana, Cuba. He is currently director and choreographer of the company Zarabanda Danza Afro, Dancer of the company of L'Explosion Contemporary Dance, creator of AfroJam Colombia and afro dance teacher at the Zajana Danza school.
Robert Lippok
Musician and Composer
Robert works as musician, visual artist and set designer in Berlin. He is co-fonder of the musical projects Ornament und Verbrechen and To Rococo Rot. Known for his expansive imagination, inventive rhythmic reflexes, and layers of fuzzy tones, Lippok’s solo work is just as wide-ranging.
Sandra Jaramillo-Poveda
Production and environmental expert
Sandra is an ecologist with a master degree in environmental management. She has an extensive experience in mobilizing local development and peace building programs in conflicted contexts in Colombia, as well as a broad knowledge in strategies and transformation of socio-environmental conflicts. She is passionate about photography.
Santiago Botero
Musician
Santiago is a doublebass player and improviser graduated from the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Santiago is the musical director of MULA and EL OMBLIGO and he co-directs LOS TOSCOS, a collaborative platform between music masters of the world and musicians from Bogotá. He is also professor at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia).
Sebastian Chalela Morris
Artist
Sebastian Chalela M. is an independent artist, writer, translator and Martial Arts instructor. He graduated as an Artist and later as a Journalism Specialist, both from Los Andes University. He then completed his Master’s Degree in Hispanic Philology at CSIC, Madrid. He has published two novels, a poem collection and a documentary book about the city of Bogota. Today he juggles his time between creative activity, translation, and his very own Dojo.
Sylvia Jaimes Niño
Artist
The work of the artist Sylvia Jaimes Niño moves between the visual arts and the performing arts. It usually consists of ephemeral virtual structures or compositions; oevres that transform or disappear. Sylvia investigates ways to plastically address the body and voice.
Tatiana Arocha
Artist
Tatiana Arocha (1974) es una artista colombiana nacida en Nueva York. Vive en Brooklyn en las tierras ancestrales de los Lenape. Su práctica artística explora la intimidad entre las personas y la tierra, arraigada en la memoria personal y su experiencia como inmigrante. Se centra en la comunidad a través de intervenciones de arte público y el intercambio de conocimientos transdisciplinarios.
Torsten Ruehle
Artist
Torsten Ruehle is a German painter. He studied law and arts in Dresden and Hamburg. His art is influenced by Arno Rink and Hanns Schimansky, both teachers of Torsten. He has shown his works internationally and closely cooperates with his brother Peter Ruehle.
Zaji Chalem
Video Artist
The multimedia artist Zaji Chalem is specialized in audiovisual languages with a strong interest for the organization, design and sense of physical space. He is a visual thinker with precise technical abilities and is highly recognized as a designer and expert in incorporation of information technologies and the communication in museums, special events and media spaces. Zaji is currently working as an Audiovisual Solutions Advisor at Nexsys de Colombia.
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