Aimée Zito Lema 1982

Lives in Amsterdam. Works in Amsterdam.

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tegenboschvanvreden

Aimée Zito Lema (1982, Amsterdam, NL) is a dutch-argentinean visual artist. Born in Amsterdam and raised in Buenos Aires. Both research-based and intuitive, Zito Lema works with archival material and personal memory. Her projects seek to investigate history as it is passed through generations, and in turn, as a tool to rethink the present. Growing up between Argentina and the Netherlands, Zito Lema is influenced by movements: of the body in space, across geographies; and of the past into the present. In her practice Aimée Zito Lema engages with questions around social memory. By using archives as starting point, and looking at history as ‘raw material’ she constructs works that span from video, photography, sculpture, and performances. She often explores workshop methodologies as a part of her creative process, and creates different constellations from which to re-write, re-imagine or question the past. The relation between memory, body and archive has long been at the core of her territory of experimentation. Questions about social memory and how the body can function as an agent of resistance and a transmitter of knowledge are at stake in her practice. Through her work she intends to reflect on images, events and the way we perceive them, evoking the various manifestations of the past into the contemporary realm of the sensible. Zito Lema lives and works in Amsterdam.

Aimée Zito Lema holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad Nacional de Artes, Buenos Aires (2003), and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (2007). She completed a Master’s degree at the Koninklijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, The Hague (NL, 2009-2011) and she was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (NL, 2015-2016). Her work was shown in numerous international solo and group exhibitions at a.o. Mercer Union, Toronto (2022, CA); Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable (2022, GB); tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam (2022, NL); Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2021, AT); Triennial of Arts of SESC, Sorocaba (2021, BR); Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (2020, 2021, NL); Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti, Buenos Aires (2020, AR); Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam (2016, 2020, NL); Centro Centro, Madrid (2020, ES); HangZhou Triennial of Fiber Arts, HangZhou (2019, CN); Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (2018, PT); Zmud Projects, Buenos Aires (2018, AR); De Appel Art Centre, Amsterdam (2018, NL); Kunsthalle Mulhouse (2018, FR); Kunsthall Trondheim (2017, NO); MACBA Barcelona (2017, ES); Casco, Utrecht (2014. NL). Works by Aimée Zito Lema are present in international private and public collections.

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Argentinian-Dutch artist Aimée Zito Lema often used archives as the starting point for her work in recent years. By re-photographing archival photos, she retells and visualises histories and stories.

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Amsterdam Art Week 2024

Amsterdam Art Week is about to begin. From 29 May to 2 June 2024, Amsterdam will be bustling with contemporary art, with more than 300 artists showcasing their work at over 70 locations throughout the city, ranging from galleries, museums and project spaces to residencies and private collections. Below is a brief overview of the participating galleries also featured on Gallery Viewer.

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Aimee Zito Lema
1982, Amsterdam, NL
Lives and works in Amsterdam, NL

Education
2015 – 2016 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2009 - 2011 Master Artistic Research, Koninklijke Academie voor Beelden, NL
2003 - 2007 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Fine Arts Department, Amsterdam, NL
2001 - 2003 Universidad Nacional de Artes, Buenos Aires, AG

Residencies
2025 Artist in Residence, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL (upcoming)
2019 Artist in Residence, Eye Filmmuseum Collection, Amsterdam, NL
2018 Rua das Gaivotas 6, and Universidad Catolica, in the frame to Conviviality
through Creativity and Culture, co-funded by the Creative European Union,
Lisbon, PT
2017 Artist in Residence, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Artist in Residence, Het Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder, NL

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Un cuerpo al que volver, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam NL
Een choreografie in het donker, Kunstenlab, Deventer, NL
2022 Scryer in the Archive, Mercer Union, Toronto, CA
2021 The Actress, Grazer Kunstverein, curated by Kate Strain and Verena Borecky, Graz, AT
Weg die Muur!, a route in public space developed together with Cargo in
Context, Amsterdam, NL
Here is Where We Meet, oude kerk, Amsterdam, NL
2020 Film-stills from 214322, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam, NL
2019 ‘214322’, (screening) Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
The Surface of an Image, curated by Soledad Gutierrez, Centro Centro, Madrid, ES
2018 13 Shots, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, PT
Demasias de la Memoria, Zmud Projects, Buenos Aires, AG
2017 Imprinted Mater, curated by Soraya Motoadikusumo and Nadine Snijders, Looirsgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL
A Series of Gestures, Kunsthall Trondheim, NO
2016 The Subversive Body, Wilfried Lentz Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
Algunas Formas de Amistad, curated by Violeta Janeiro, The Goma Gallery,
Madrid, NL
2014 Body at Work - Rehearsing Cooperation (long-term research project)

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 CIRCULATE – photography beyond frames, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Survival Kit 15: measures, LCCA, Riga, LV
2022 The Sea as Common Ground (From a Wave Point of View), commissioned by
the Whitstable Biennale, UK
Transferring Cultures into Bodies, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL
2021 Frestas – Triennal of Arts of SESC, Sorocaba, BR
2020 The World After, oude kerk, Amsterdam, NL
Genero Fantastico, Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti, Buenos Aires, AG
2019 No You Won’t be Naming no Buildings After Me, curated by Vincent van
Velsen, TENT, Rotterdam, NL
Microperformances – handle with care courage, Q18, Cologne, FR
2018 Gerrit turns 50, Willem only 28, Anniversary Show, curated by Moritz Küng, Gerrit Rietveld, NL
The Live Creature, curated by Soledad Gutierrez, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, FR
Prometheus Unbound, curated by Luigi Fassi, Steirischer Herbst, Neue Galerie, Graz, AT
2017 Working for the Commons, Casco Art Institute, Utrecht, NL
Muestreo #1, MACBA, Barcelona, ES
Idiorritmias, Performance program, curated by Soledad Gutierrez and Pablo
Martinez, MACBA, Barcelona, ES
Spurensicherung, Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam, NL
Archive Fever, De Nederlandse Bank, Amsterdam, NL
2016 11th Gwangju Biennale, The Eighth Climate, Gwangju, KR
Dorothea von Stetten Art Award, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, DE
Horse Pistes, L’art de la Revolte, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Hesitation, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, NL
Horse Pistes, L’art de la Revolte, Centre Pompidou Malaga, ES
Aquel que camina delante, curated by Claudia Segura and Teixeira de Freitas,
Travesia Cuatro, Guadalajara, MX
2015 We are the Time Machines, Casco Art Institute, Office for Art Design and Theory, Utrecht, NL
Get Lost Art Route, Amsterdam Zuid As, NL
2014 New Habits, curated by Binna Choi, Casco Art Ins, Utrecht, NL

Grants and Awards
2016 Longlist nomination MK Award
Short-list nomination Dorothea von Stetten Art Award, Kunstmuseum
2014 Longlist nomination Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre
Longlist nomination MK Award

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