My artistic work focuses on the development of communication and mediation practices, especially in the field of postcolonial criticism and racism-critical work. Through artistic-performative practices usually in cooperation with museums and art institutions, I develop different formats that allow for a negotiation of questions regarding migration, post-colonialism, racism and gender politics.
Carla Bobadilla is a visual artist based in Vienna. She studied Arts at the University of Playa Ancha, Valparaíso, Chile and and is currently attending the PhD programme at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Since 2009 she has been working on educational interventions in Viennese museums and art institutions. She taught (2015−2017) at Department of Art and Communication at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. In 2008 she received the Theodor Körner Award for her documentary work about workers in Austrian industry production. In 2011 the Women Award from the Austrian Ministry of Culture for the book Sketches of Migration. 2017 she worked on the art-based research project Austrian Cultural Heritage in which she tried to uncovering traces of the hidden enmeshment of colonial history as a part of her kültüř gemma! Fellowship at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Since 2018 is part of the board of the IGBK and Senior Lecturer at the academy of fine arts in Vienna. From 2020 member and co- founder of the colective Decolonizing in Vienna.
Her work and performances have been shown at Kunsthalle Wien, Wiener Festwochen, Medien Werkstatt-Wien, Galerie IG Bildende Kunst, VBKÖ, Kunsthalle Exnergasse im WUK, KÖR, Galerie Ostlicht, Fotogalerie-Wien; FIFV Festival Internacional de Fotografía en Valparaíso, Chile, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago, Chile; Fluss, NÖ Initiative für Foto- und Medienkunst, Wolkersdorf, Lower Austria; O’Artoteca, Milan, Italy; Gallery of the Austrian Cultural Forum, Berlin and at the The Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, among others.
C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E
1976 born in Valparaíso, Chile, lives and works in Vienna and Lower Austria.
EDUCATION
1994 – 2000 Bachelor in Visual Art. University of Playa Ancha of Educational Sciences, Valparaíso, Chile Diploma Thesis: Agrarian reform as landscape reform.
An analysis of the representation of the concept of landscape in the
Chilean social engage art.
Specializations:
Photography, Sculpture, Art in the Public Space, Art History, Art Theory, Art Semiology, Art Aesthetics, Artistic Research Methodology
2021 – Current PhD Student, Department of Art Education, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Project title: The Palm House in Vienna: Postcolonial Analysis, Diasporic Knowledge, Decolonial Transformation.
A Case Study of Transcultural Mediation
MEMBERSHIPS
Since 2020 Co-chairswoman together with Almut Rink of the advocacy group for visual artists in Austria (IG Bildende Kunst)
Since 2019 Member of the Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ)
Since 2018 Bord Member of the advocacy group for visual artists in Austria (IG Bildende Kunst)
Since 2008 Member of the advocacy group for visual artists in Austria (IG Bildende Kunst)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND ART BASED-RESEARCH
Oct. 2021 – Jul. 2022 Decolonial urban explorations as methods and mediation practice.
Methods in in Movement in the Power Space of Vienna. University of Vienna
Mar. 2020 – Mar. 2021 Postcolonial Art Mediation. Department for Visual Culture.
Alpen Adria University, Klagenfurt, Austria
Since 2018 Art and Collaborative practice. Art mediation. Collaborative Art Mediation.Department for Arts Education
Senior Lecturer Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
2015 – 2017 Lecturer at the Department for Arts, Science of Arts, Arts Education and Communication of Arts.
University of applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
2016 – 2018 Project Intertwining hi/stories of Arts Education. Research on global histories of arts and education
in a translocal collaboration (research groups in Maseru, Johannesburg, Nyanza, Lubumbashi, Kampala, Vienna, Quito, Bogota, London, Hong Kong, Vienna, Geneva/Zurich), funded by Stiftung Mercator
Schweiz, Allianz Kulturstiftung and Zurich University of the Arts
(https://another-roadmap.net/intertwining-histories)
2011- Current Part of the international research project “Another Roadmap-School”
with Karin Schneider, Andrea Hubin and Barbara Mahlknecht as member of the Vienna Working Group.
Since 2009 she has offered art workshops, participated in conferences and symposiums in a wide range of art organizations in Austria and abroad:
University of Vienna, University of Art and Design of Linz, University of Salzburg; Zurich University of the Arts; 32ndBienal de São Paulo, Brazil; Theater Chur, Switzerland; MAK, mumok, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien Museum, Weltmuseum, Museum für Volkskunde Wien, Sammlung Essl, Wien-Bibliothek, Wiener Kunst Schule, SOHO in Ottakring, WIENWOCHE; Stadtarchäologie Museum, Hall in Tirol, Festspielhaus St. Polten; FOTOFLUSS, Lower Austria; ROTOR, Graz
EXHIBITIONS
2020 Space for Kids. Denk(dir)mal! Kunsthalle Wien am Karlsplatz. Curated by Wolfgang Brunner, Andrea Hubin, Michaela Schmidlechner, Michael Simku, Martin Walkner
2019 Work, life, art. NöART. Curated by Nina Schedlmayer. Traveling show in Low Austria. NÖ art
2019 What photography can do. NöART. Curated by Hermann Capor. Traveling show in Low Austria. NÖ art
2018 In with the new. Lovers and Members. VBKÖ, Vienna
2018 El afán de envolver. Wiener Festwochen. Into the City. Curated by Wolfgang Schlag, Birgit Lurz, Anton Lederer and Margarethe Makovec. Central library on the Gürtel, Vienna
2017 Translated. Medienwerkstatt-Wien. As part of the Program Carte Blanche
2017 Flowers of the evil. Exhibition and Workshop together with students of the University of Applied Arts. Curated by Mariel Rodríguez VBKÖ, Vienna
2017 Experimental arrangement, unruly action. Exhibition and walk together with students of the University of Applied Arts. Curated by Elke Smodic. IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna.
2016 Performing the timeline. Performance and Workshop together with Karin Schneider.32ndBienal de São Paulo
2016 Resistances. Photography interventions in the city. Photography Festival of Valparaíso, Chile
2016 History of a Street. Walk together with students of the University of Applied Arts. SOHO in Ottakring, Vienna
2015 Mobilizing Memory. Curated by Isin Onol. Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2013 Industry Photography. Curated by Karin Jaschke. Galerie Ostlicht, Vienna
2012 Gehen in...Belgrad. NadaLokal, Vienna
2012 Gehen in… Belgrad. Magacin, Belgrad, Serbia
2012 Ekeko, die Verkörperung der Wünsche. AAI, Graz, Styria
2011 Comunication. Galeria Flat1, 1040, Viena
2011 EINDAZWISCHENKOMMEN. Galeria Foto Fluss, Wolkersdorf Schlosspark, Austria
2010 Spuren legen. Interventions, Museum Meidling, Vienna
2010 UnORTnung VI. Instituto cartográfico, Vienna
2007 No Dumping! Fotogalerie-Wien, Vienna
2007 Dead end. Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York
2007 Go to hell Money! Galerie Denkraum, Vienna
2007 L’Humiditè. O’Artoteca, Milan
2007 Auftritte. with Anja Manfredi, Gallery of Austrian Cultural Forum, Berlin
2006 Latin Lobby. Museumsquartier Wien, Vienna
2006 Der Schuh in der Kunst. Traklhaus, Salzburg
2006 Utopias de bolsillo.National Museum of fine Arts, Santiago de Chile
2005 Daños colaterales. Gallery O’artoteca, Art Fair MiArt, Milan
2005 Machtfaktor Wirtschaft.Fotogalerie-Wien, Vienna
2004 Vestirse de Seda. Visual arts gallery h-10, Valparaíso, Chile
2004 Rural. Sala Puntángeles, University of Playa Ancha, Valparaíso, Chile
2004 Ferne Besessenheit. Subbotnik Architecture, Vienna
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2017 Fellowship from the kültür gemma! At the University of Applied Arts, Vienna
2016 Work scholarship from the BMUKK for the participation at the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo
2011 Women-Award from the BMUKK (Jury award) for the book Sketches of Migration
2007 Theodor-Körner-Award for the work Industry Photography
2006 Atelier scholarship (Paris) from the BMUKK
2003 – 2013 Grants from the city of Vienna for the project Orte, die einladen
COLLECTIONS
Since 2020 part of the permanent collection of the museum Shoes Or No Shoes, Belgium