Museo Moderno
León Catalina

Catalina León, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1981. She is a visual artist and cultural manager. She began her artistic training in 1998 in different workshops. Between 2003 and 2005 she participated in the Kuitca / Rojas U.B.A. Scholarship. Among her individual exhibitions are: Converted into pearls your tears spring from the sea, Alberto Sendrós Gallery, 2004; Imaginal Cross, Daniel Abate Gallery, 2008; Muda Alberto Sendrós Gallery, 2011 and The Useless Sacrifice Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, 2015; A Possible Zodiac (Work under construction) Art Plant-2019.

Since 2005 she has participated in group exhibitions, among which the following stand out: J’en Rêve (Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, 2005);); Why paint? (FNA, 2009); As long as possible (Casa de América, Madrid, 2010); PintorAs (Museum of Contemporary Art of Rosario MACRO, 2010); Current Argentine art in the Malba collection. Works 1989-2010 (MALBA, 2011); Latest trends II (Suspended donations), (Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, 2012); Nature, refuge and man’s resource (CCK Buenos Aires, Argentina 2017). Home Sweet Home (Muntref, Buenos Aires, Arg 2018) 14th Curitiba Biennial Biennial in the exhibition The Threads of Ritual (Curitiba, Brazil 2019) Meeting, Ruth Benzacar Gallery (Buenos Aires 2021) Symphonic Plot, Marco Museum (Buenos Aires 2021) .

Her work is part of private and public collections such as the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rosario MACRO and the Banco Supervielle. In 2018 she presented Sol en Casa 8, a book about my work with texts by Ticio Escobar and Alejandra Aguado; The presentation took place at the Eduardo Sívori Museum and was accompanied by the placement in the garden of the work Patio or painting for floors and plants.

She is currently working on Lluvia, impredictive astrology, a participatory project that proposes, through art, to rethink the imaginaries of astrology and its practical use in everyday life. This project unfolds over time through different Actions, which take shape from the context.

She is Co-founder and director of Vergel, an NGO, which since 2010 has been working to intertwine art, health and education. vergelarte.org