Museo Moderno
Piffer Cristina
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Cristina Piffer (Buenos Aires, 1953) is a recognized artist with a prominent position on the contemporary art scene internationally, with studies in architecture at the Architecture University of Buenos Aires. She participated in the II Biennial of Bahía Blanca (1997), in the III Iberoamerican Biennial of Peru (2002) and in the Biennial of San Pablo-Valencia, Valencia, Spain (2007). She has been awarded with several prizes and recognitions such as: the Artist of the Year Award, Art Critics Association (2002) and the Diploma of Honor, category objects, Konex Awards, (2002), Fondo Nacional de las Artes Grant (2001), Mention of the jury of the Banco de la Nación Argentina Award for Visual Arts (2000), and was selected as a guest artist to participate in the Public Art Project of Puerto Rico (2003), among others. Around 2003 he participated in a public art project in San Juan de Puerto Rico. The following year she was called by First View for the Berlin-Buenos Aires Dialogues cultural exchange program, to carry out an urban intervention in that city. In 2004, alongside with Hugo Vidal, she made and outstanding documentation projects and actions bout The Center for Documentation and Research of the Left Culture of Argentina (CeDinCi). She was part of numerous group exhibitions such as the individual exhibition at MALBA – Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires, Argentina, entitled “Contemporary 27” and the group exhibition in the framework of the Bienal Sur – Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti, “Argento”(2018) in Rolf Art and “The not docile inheritance of the ghosts” (2019) in the Fundación OSDE, Buenos Aires, “Radical Shift: Political and Social Upheaval in Argentinean Art since the 1960s”, Morsbroich Museum, Germany (2011); “With blood in the eye”, Ignacio Liprandi Contemporary Art Gallery (2010); “Promotion of July in September”, Cultural Center for Cooperation (2010); “The bowels of art”, Imago, OSDE Foundation (2008); “30 years, 30 artists”, Recoleta Cultural Center (2006); “Between silence and violence”, Espacio Fundación Telefónica (2004); “Between silence and violence”, Sotheby s, New York (2003); “Entripados” in the Luisa Pedrouzo gallery (2002), Latest trends, Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires (2002) and “Like meat and nail”, together with Claudia Contreras, at the Borges Cultural Center (1998).