For its first program, Salta art partnered with Kunstverein München to invite Más Arte Más Acción (MAMA) from Colombia.  What can be learned from how MAMA works?

MAMA will describe its experience in creating a ‘space to reflect’ from three vantage points: as a concept, as an artwork, and as a sustainable resource.

MAMA will discuss the idea of international residencies and exchange and the challenges faced in the present context of pandemic, climate and economic crises. It will also discuss how it is using connections generated by documenta 15 to activate a meaningful program for MAMA, its ecosystem, and its new allies in Germany.  At the end of the presentation, MAMA will take questions from the public.

The conversation is supported by the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich and Salta art.

Más Arte Más Acción is a non-profit cultural foundation established in 2009 that seeks to generate critical thinking through art. The foundation’s base on Colombia’s Pacific Coast is the source of inspiration for artists and others who are invited to explore wide-ranging social and environmental issues. MAMA is embedded in a network of ecosystems including communities, collectives, organizations and nature. Since its inception, MAMA has offered an artistic residency program based on the notion of a Space to Reflect. This concept travelled to Kassel for documenta 15, opening spaces of reflection around a wide range of subjects. Its interests include climate justice and environmental rights; memory and the peace process; alternative non-capitalist ways of living in biodiverse territories; and Afro-film narratives.