Join artist Carmen Arias for an open studio and artist talk on Friday, May 15th as part of this years Various Others Program. Arias opens the doors to her studio at Empfangshalle (Gabelsbergerstraße 83) as part of Salta art’s Studio Grant, which was awarded to her in February.

Salta art’s Studio Grant supports Munich-based artists who have recently graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. The program provides five months of studio access within a shared working environment alongside other local artists, encouraging daily exchange and peer dialogue. The grant also includes a materials budget provided by Salta art, as well as a MakerPlus membership at MakerSpace Munich. The initiative aims to support artists at a formative stage in their practice while strengthening connections between artistic production, infrastructure, and the city’s cultural ecosystem.

About Carmen Arias

Carmen Arias’s practice spans sculpture, installation, and sound, engaging with the city as a constructed body, shaped by political, social, and historical forces. Working with a diverse range of materialsfrom ceramic, plaster, to concrete, steel,wood or found objects she draws from overlooked architectural and infrastructural elements (manholes , service ladders, pipes, ventilation systems, underground passages) transforming them through shifts in scale, material, and function.

Through tactile forms that oscillate between the familiar and the estranged, her work invites a physical relationship with sculpture that foregrounds experience, resistance, and transformation.

Carmen Arias (Santander, 1999) lives and works in Munich. She studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and graduated from the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Munich, where she studied sculpture with Hermann Pitz, Jumana Manna, Katinka Bock, and Gabriel Kuri. Her work has been shown at Akademiegalerie Munich, Kunstpavillon Munich, Public Art Munich, Eres Projects (Munich), Neuworkshop (Munich), and Galerie Juan Silió (Madrid), among others.