Museo Moderno
DOLORES DE ARGENTINA / DOLORES CACERES

He is a conceptual artist. She lives and works in Córdoba
She has specialized in Public Art for more than twenty years. She combines the nature of the
production of art, the role of making art and the meaning of culture in society.
In the nineties she began a series called Museum Makeup that she exhibited at the
Center of Contemporary Art of Córdoba and the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires
Aires. Starting in 2001 she began the series Dolores de Argentina, a work in progress that she presented in
the III MERCOSUR Biennial and the 9th Havana Biennial (2006), which resulted in the
chronological narration of the pains of Argentina since its birth, told as
a succession of historical events, taken from the mass media. In it
In 2015 she held a retrospective exhibition of the Dolores project from Argentina in the Park
of Memory under the curatorship of Florencia Battiti.
At the I Biennial of the End of the World (2007) she produced The Artist Points (action of fire) in
tribute to the Yámana peoples. They followed I Accept Dissent (2007) at the Cultural Center
Recoleta of Buenos Aires and the NO Public Art project in the City of Córdoba that
same year. In 2008 she started the Que Soy Project at the Emilio Caraffa Museum in Córdoba,
collective action of soybean planting in the museum gardens.
In 2018 she is invited to the Curitiba Anniversary Biennial with the project Que Soy y Sowing
soybean in the gardens of the Oscar Nieemeyer museum and takes the space as a space for reflection
from the museum. In 2019 she presents One sowing after another within the framework of the Biennial of
Buenos Aires performance. The performance consists of carrying soybeans
South Americans along the Grand Canal in Venice during the Biennale heading to Istanbul.
In 2015, a year of very aggressive campaigns and policies shows the emptiness that
she named #Sinlimite567 at the Caraffa Museum in Córdoba. In 2020 she obtained the First
Prize for the competition for the creation of a commemorative monument of José de San
Martin and Juan Gregorio de La Heras in Mendoza, Argentina. The project is called
Liminar Monument or Plaza of Empty Monuments. In 2022 she also obtains the
first prize for the creation of a Land-Art piece called Bosque de Piedras
in Calamuchita, Sierras de Córdoba, currently under construction.
Awards and Mentions.
Honorable Mention from the Andreani Prize jury for the video Sobreentendidos del
What I Am Project. (2009) First Prize for Sculpture for Public Space organized by the
Province of Córdoba (2003); Leonardo Prize for the artist of the young generation awarded
by the National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires (2002); Nominated by the Association
Argentina of Art Critics for the Experience of the Year for Urban Intervention in the
Museum of Modern Art and in the underground of the city of Buenos Aires (2000): Award
Banco Provincia de Córdoba (1995). Her work is part of the collection of the Provincial Museum
of Fine Arts Emilio Caraffa, the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, the Art Center
Contemporary Wilfredo Lam Havana, Cuba and private collections.