Bio
Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo actually lives and work between Karlsruhe, Germany and in Havanna City, Cuba. She born in October, 12th, 1984 in Cuba. From 2011 to 2013 she made a Postgraduate course in New Media, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) with DAAD Scholarship. From 1998 until 2008 she studied in the Elemental school of Visual Art “José Antonio Díaz Pelaez”, the Fine Arts Academy “San Alejandro” and the High Institute of Arts (ISA) in Havanna, Cuba.
She participated at the following workshops:
2010- Braziers international
artists workshop, England. (2006-2007) Arte de Conducta directed by the
cuban artist Tania Bruguera; Cultural Interchange “INTERMEDIAE-Minbak”,
ARCO 07 at Matadero Madrid with the Art Center Nabi from South Corea. And other
extra-artistic workshop as the International Congress Forensic 2006 at the
Institute for Basic and Preclinical Sciences “Victoria de Girón”, Havanna City
and participated at the following workshops: " Automated database and
processing image in Forensic Genetics", “Evaluation of the bodily harm” and “Investigation
for murder scenes”.
Susana has been artist in
residency at the Art Centre Darling Foundry in Montreal from October-December
2009. At Villa Waldberta in Muenchen, Germany from April-June 2010 and at MAP
Residency in ARTEZ, Enschede, Holland from October-December 2010 organized by
Pepiniers pour le jeunes artistes and TransArtists.
Susana had a solo show title “Fiebre
cerebral” in Villa de Bank, 2011, Enschede, The Netherlands, also “Llave maestra” in Zalle Cero, 2010, Havanna,
Cuba and other two solo shows in La Habana, 2009. Also she has taken participation in important exhibitions in Cuba and
other countries.
In 2013 she is taking part in the following
group exhibitions: “Arte cubano. Voces y poéticas femeninas
(1990-2013)”, Cara
and Cabezas Contemporary Gallery, San Franciso, USA, Cuban virtualities, Tufts
University, Boston, USA, Biografía
Dilatada, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and BIAC MARTINIQUE. In 2012 she was in the
11 Havana Bienniale and just presented a solo show in NAOS gallery, Karlsruhe,
Germany. In 2011 she took part in the III Biennale Arts Actuels Réunion,
Reunion Island, France, Torbellino II_Whirlwind II curated by Dannys Montes de
Oca, Galeria HABANA, Cuba, Again and Again curated by Adrian Paci, Galleria La
Veronica arte contemporánea, Modica,
Italy, among others.
In 2010: “El extremo de la bala” curated by
Rewell Altunaga in Pabellon Cuba. “Torbellino” curated by Dannys Montes de Oca,
at Parroquia Santisima Trinidad,
Santiago de Cuba. The European Book Art
Biennale_ 1 edition, Art Museum Satu-Mare, Romania. SUPERNORMAL Festival at
Braziers Park, England. “Satellite 2010” curated
by White Box LIC
at Experimental Gallery, Juvenal Reis Art Studios and Residencies, New York, among others.
During 2009 she took part in the X Bienal de La Habana in two collective
exhibitions: Estado de excepcion curated by Tania Bruguera, HABANA gallery and
Simulacros curated by Solveig Font, Villena gallery, UNEAC. Same year Susana presented her work in the
extra walls exhibition All that is solid melts into air curated by the Museum
for Contemporary Art in Antwerp MU KA, Mechelen, Belgium and Maybe Dick II: The
Second Youtube Film Festival, Studio Béluga, Montreal, Canada.
In 2008 and 2009 she was part of Medium
Religion curated by Boris Groys and Peter Weibel at the Center of Art and New
Media (ZKM) Karlsruhe, Germany and at the Model Art and Niland Gallery, Sligo,
Ireland.
In 2007 she was at the 7th Gwangju
Biennal in South Corea.
