Ernesto Oroza – © F. Roure
Residency from 03/07/2023 to 23/07/2023Ernesto Oroza
Ernesto Oroza will present the result of his research on Tuesday July 11th 2023 at 6:30 pm
R+2. Free entry
Ernesto Oroza is the first guest of the Almanach residencies. He is a Cuban artist, designer and researcher, who is particularly interested in architectures of necessity, technological disobedience, and other topics that link design and society in times of economic and political crisis. He produces and distributes speculative models and research through various publishing methods, exhibitions, collaborative practices, documentaries, and unorthodox forays into architecture, interior design, and object design. In Cognac, he will be working on the resource hubs represented by Emmaüs and recycling centers.
Ernesto Oroza
Ernesto Oroza is an artist, designer, researcher, a graduate of the Higher Institute of Design of Havana, researcher and teacher at the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Saint-Étienne.
Oroza has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the HARPO Foundation, and received the Pernod Ricard Fellowship from the Villa Vassilieff, among others. He has exhibited his work at the documenta fifteen, Germany; Groninger Museum, The Netherlands; The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Spain; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; Institut de Cultura La Virreina, Barcelona