Cemento: del under al indie, 1985-2016

Cemento: del under al indie, 1985-2016 Club Cultural Matienzo, 2016 Project coordination: Agustin Jais and Nicolás Igarzábal. A documentary exhibition, a zine, 4 shows, 5 talks, a minifestival and a podcast concerning the legacy of the nightclub “Cemento”, a major yet conflicting landmark of Buenos Aires cultural history. Their first little venue, Café Einstein, had already lit a fuse, enduring …

Matienschön

Matienschön Artist-run project room Between 2011 and 2018, a team of 9 developed contemporary art projects and ran an exhibition space located at Club Cultural Matienzo in Buenos Aires. Matienschön led collective curatorial processes, providing human, spatial and material resources for the development of site specific projects. Its identity was rooted in collaboration, the development of experiences of artistic inhabiting …

#Matienzo10años

Festival #Matienzo10años November 24th & 25th, 2018 Festival on the 10th Anniversary of Club Cultural Matienzo. Line up Day 1 (indoors): – Music: Matienzo Dream Team. Orkesta Popular San Bomba. La Aventura del Hombre. Alonso Morning. 3J Selector. DJ Pato Smink. Coco Albino + Cerez Tólvasor + Lucas lead + MONO VJ’S + Tramo Estudio – Exhibitions: Lula Bauer. Camila …

Club Cultural Matienzo

Club Cultural Matienzo Founded in 2008 in Buenos Aires Club Cultural Matienzo was: A 1000 m2 venue for art & community. A 100+-members team of teams producing contents. A community for transformation through culture. Yearly: 800 events 1000 artists & collectives. 140.000 visitors 80 workshops 70% produced in-house In other’s words: «Everything new and interesting happening today, happens there» (BRANDO) …

Imágenes guardadas

Imágenes guardadas By YoNoFui, with the participation of Coco Cerella. Organized by: YoNoFui, CC Matienzo & CELS Supported by Artists at Risk Connection Curator: Agustin Jais Matienschön, 2018 The creative resistance strategy of a photography workshop for imprisoned women, facing prohibitions from the penitentiary system. Texts

Todo

Santiago Orti: Todo Curated by Tam Painé Ciai and Agustín Jais, Matienschön 2018 A decade of B-sides in a photo album collection. The exhibition was the first of the program «Ten years in the life of…», that formed part of the series of events and exhibitions celebrating the 10th anniversary of Club Cultural Matienzo, which proposed to examine the developments …

Seder e-Tarbut

Seder e-Tarbut Virtual project, 2020 Artists: Curators: Michelle Wajcman, Denise Lara Margules, Agustín Jais A Zoom passover dinner, reimagined by 7 artists from the Río de la Plata. Hitarbut (התערבות) means interruption, interference, intervention. Our lives have been interrupted by Coronavirus. The same is about to happen with our Sedarim LePesach. Our lives are moving to digital. At the Río …

E-III-3

Plinio Villagrán Galindo, E-III-3 Curators: Agustin Jais and Tam Painé Ciai. Matienschön, 2018. E-III-3 is the classified name of one of the mounds of the Archaeological site of Kaminaljuyú (Hill of the Dead) located under present-day Guatemala City. Although the mound no longer exists in its visible part, there are the lower layers where the tombs of the first rulers …

El penúltimo humano

K.A.K.: The penultimate human Curated by Agustín Jais. Club Cultural Matienzo, 2018 The performance collective based in Brussels presents a site-specific show in collaboration with local artists. Eight members of K.A.K., winners of Matienschön’s International Residency Program, worked for a month with local artists and enthusiasts to create a one-night-only new play. It is the first presentation of the collective …

Restitución

Restitución By Sebastián Hacher and Mariana Corral Matienschön, 2017 In his first exhibition, the journalist and non-fiction writer Sebastián Hacher advanced a new gender: embroidered journalism. He colored and embroidered recently discovered photographs that document the aberrations suffered by native people during the expansion of the Argentine borders. Alongside the images, the exhibition presented a long, exquisite chronicle of the …