Fátima Rodrigo was selected by the Salta art jury and the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich to participate in the AIR-M Ebenböckhaus Residency 2026 in Munich.
Fátima Rodrigo (b. Lima, Peru) is a visual artist working across mixed-media installation, sculpture, textile, sound, and scenographic environments. Her practice investigates the transnational circulation of modernism and how European avant-garde languages were appropriated, transformed, and re-signified within Latin American popular culture.
Rodrigo examines the postcolonial representation of modernism and the power structures embedded in its canonical narratives. Rather than treating modernism as a linear development, she approaches it as a contested field shaped by appropriation, erasure, and reconfiguration, challenging binaries such as “avant-garde” versus “traditional” and center versus periphery.
Drawing from mid-20th-century musical television and entertainment industries in Latin America, she reconstructs geometric scenographies and ornamental motifs using beads, sequins, metallic threads, and industrial textiles. Materials often dismissed as decorative or feminine become critical tools through which she destabilizes modernism’s purist claims and exposes its ideological hierarchies. Through citation and material translation, she reveals the simultaneous assimilation and invisibilization of Indigenous visual languages within Western modernism.
Her recent research foregrounds the role of women and queer performers in the circulation of avant-garde aesthetics through popular media, positioning popular culture as an archive of collective desire and resistance.
Rodrigo studied Fine Arts at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She has participated in international residency programs including Art Explora – Cité des Arts (Paris), Atelier Mondial (Basel), Gasworks (London), and Flora Ars + Natura (Bogotá). Her work has been presented in major exhibitions including the Liverpool Biennial (2023), the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), Ars Electronica (2020), and the Mercosur Biennial (2025). Her work is included in the collection of the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) and she will present a solo exhibition at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City in June 2026.
About the Residency
The AIR-M Ebenböckhaus Residency is part of the Artist-in-Residence Munich (AIR-M) program organized by the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich. Since 2022, the program has been developed in collaboration with Salta art to expand the residency to South America. For the 2026 edition, the artists’ residency is realized in partnership with ERA Foundation.
The three-month residency (7 July – 24 September 2026) provides time and resources for research, experimentation, and focused studio work, alongside opportunities to engage with Munich’s art scene through studio visits, institutional encounters, and public programs. Residents live and work at Ebenböckhaus in Munich-Pasing.
Accommodation and a monthly stipend are funded by the City of Munich Department of Arts and Culture. Salta art and ERA Foundation cover return flights from South America and provide a research-trip allowance. The residency also includes access to a shared studio at Empfangshalle in the Museumsquartier and a MakerPlus membership at MakerSpace Munich.
The program fosters exchange between South America and Munich’s cultural landscape, creating a framework for dialogue, collaboration, and sustained professional connections.