Selected Artists: Álvaro Albadalejo Sierra, Carmen Ayala Marín (and Alberto Martín Menacho), Isabel Bonafe Carrasco, Enrique Castillo Carrasco, Isaías Griñolo Padilla, Susana Jiménez Carmona, Gala Marina Knörr Sierra, Juan López López, Alba Lorente Hernández, Samuel Perea Díaz, Eduardo Rodríguez Barranco and Beatriz Ruibal García.

The C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía continues with your artistic residencies. For the second phase, the following artists have been chosen: Carmen Ayala Marín and Alberto Martín Menacho (collective), Isabel Bonafe Carrasco, Enrique Castillo Carrasco, Isaías Griñolo Padilla, Alba Lorente Hernández, Samuel Perea Díaz and Beatriz Ruibal García. 

Artistic residencies aim to foster production, research and contemporary artistic creation by providing spaces and production resources for artistic processes, with a special focus on innovative creative languages. Artists have access to a wide range of digital and analog tools in the C3A studios for their production and research. Since 2019, production programs have brought numerous artists and curators from Andalusia to our center, enhancing diverse voices and enriching perspectives. The inclusion of over 55 artists and/or collectives to date has also stimulated emerging and established curatorial voices, as well as the creation of networks beyond the Andalusian territory, multidisciplinarity, and curatorial development. These are the working objectives of these residencies, complementary to public and exhibition programs.

Artists in residence:

Carmen Ayala Marín (Seville, 1991) lives and works between Córdoba and Paris. She holds a degree in Fine Arts by the University of Seville and Paris. In 2018, she completed a semester of the Master's program at Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. Ayala Marín's paintings combine references to art history with elements of her own biography in subtle collages where different realities overlap. Her narrative work spans from painting to video, writing and installation, creating a universe that engages the audience through numerous literary and cinematographic references interwoven in her imagery. She was a resident member of the Casa de Velázquez between 2021-2022. In October 2023, she published her first artist's book, "La Perra Andalouse" a project supported by l'Académie de France in coedition with Exit Publicaciones. This was followed by her solo exhibition with the same Buñuelian title at the Centro Buñuel Calanda (Teruel). The book was presented at Miralooksbooks 2023 and featured at Artlibris ARCOMadrid 2024. Her work has been exhibited in numerous international group exhibitions, both in institutions and galleries, including  in 2023: "¿De qué no hablan las plantas?" at Galería Marisa Marimón in Ourense; "Pierre Loti, Arpenter l'intervalle" at the Corderie Royal de Rochefort; "Itinérance" at l'Académie de Beaux-Arts at Paris and Nantes. In 2022: "En soi, en toi au delà" at the Institut Français of Madrid; "Emotions are fact" at Nosbaum Reding gallery, Luxembourg and "¡Viva Villa!" at Collection Lambert in Avignon, among others.

Alberto Martín Menacho (Madrid, 1986) is a graduate in Visual Arts from the Haute École d'art et de design - HEAD in Geneva. In 2015, he directed his first short film, "Pata negra" In 2018, "Mi amado, las montañas" was presented at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam and received the award for best short film at the Las Palmas Film Festival. Martín Menacho has been an artist in residence at Tabakalera and at the Casa de Velázquez, Academia de Francia in Madrid. His work has been exhibited in art galleries, museums, and film festivals, including the Photo Elysée Museum in Lausanne, the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, FIDMarseille, Doclisboa, and Visions du Réel. His first feature film, "Antier noche" it was presented in 2023 at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.

Isabel Bonafe Carrasco (Seville, 1991) graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Seville in 2014 and completed a postgraduate in Fine Arts at the University of Saint Martins in London. in 2019. Formerly based in London until late 2023, she is currently residing in Seville. Her current practice aims to explore the ways in which we consume, perceive, and coexist with virtual images and certain physical phenomena that challenge our common sense and ordinary experience. Drawing from elements common to both worlds, such as those related to electromagnetism and optics, light and vision, she designs pieces that seem to blur the line between the physical and the virtual, rooted in issues related to memory, presence and the ontological status of photographic media. From January to April 2024, she presented an individual exhibition at Espacio Derivado titled "Desde fuera, la percepción resbala sobre las cosas sin tocarlas" with text titled "Descubrirse en la oscuridad" by Juan Francisco Rueda. Future projects include a collective exhibition titled "Artistas andaluces, Escultura e instalación" from October 2024 to February 2025, at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC). From April to June 2015, she was a resident at the NARS Foundation International Arts Residency in New York. Nominated for the Ivan Juritz European Prize in 2019 and winner of the II Certamen Creación Joven Artistas Emergentes 2020 photography prize from University Cultura Loyola. Past residencies include The Digital Art Observatory (DAO) Residency - Electric Artefacts, EAiR Residency, Artist Residency C.U.B.O, Bari and Artist Residency Le Couvent, Auzits, among others. She has exhibited duo exhibitions such as "Univers d'Itmages" at L'ETNO Museu Valencià with Martínez Bellido in 2022 and "Resonance Touches" at The Koppel Project Hive Gallery with Lara Geary in London, in 2021. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including HotSheet Festival, London, 2023; Baggage Claim, Staffordshirest gallery, London, 2023; Isolation Mastered, JD Malat Gallery, London, 2020; Inund'art Festival, Casa de la Cultura, Girona, 2020; Digital Edge, Somerset House, London, 2019; Film Festival, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2018 and Against Forgetting, Senesi Contemporanea Gallery, London, 2018, among others.

Enrique Castillo Carrasco (Jaén, 1982) holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Granada and a Master's degree in Artistic Production and Research from the University of Barcelona. He also studied at the Ramón Garay Professional Conservatory of Music. He has received awards such as the first international prize in sound art PowSOLO, 2O2O (Amsterdam). He has been a beneficiary of residencies such as Residencias Matadero in the Czech Republic, Meetfactory 2023. Among his works and exhibitions: "El Jardín de las Delicias" a tour of the works of the Solo collection, Umbráfono II, Matadero Madrid, 2022, or the triptych "Sombra y Sonido". In 2018, he focused on research on optical sound on celluloid and created pieces at: Punktum Krasova, Prague, Czech Republic, 2023; Process Festival Riga, Latvia, 2023; MMMAD, Madrid, 2023; Hangar, Barcelona, 2023; or MACBA, Barcelona, 2022. His teaching activity has taken place within the university framework and beyond, giving masterclasses on his own creative process and on optical reading at LAV: Laboratorio Audiovisual Madrid, 2022, and at UMA, University of Málaga, 2022.

Isaías Griñolo Padilla (Bonares, Huelva, 1963) is a visual artist, filmmaker, researcher, and curator. He lives and works in Seville. He was formed in the UNIA_arteypensamiento programs at the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía and Tejidos conjuntivos (Critical Museology, Artistic Research Practices and Cultural Studies) at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS). He is a member of the PRPC (Platform for Reflection on Cultural Policies). His interests focus on the public sphere and the landscapes of everyday life, leading him to approach projects from hybrid practices through connections of memory, ecology, economy, poetry and flamenco. Among his visual works, "MEP" for the exhibition Principio Potosí (MNCARS, Madrid, 2010) and "historia_contemporánea" a multidisciplinary project presented, others, in: "Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead. Una forma de ser" (WK, Stuttgart, Germany, 2020), "Flares in the Darkroom" (Secession, Vienna, Austria, 2015), "On & For Production" (Auguste Orts, Brussels, Belgium, 2015), "LArt de la Rèvolte" (Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2016) and "Vasos comunicantes" (MNCARS, Madrid, 2021). His recent solo exhibitions include: "Processi 149", Academia de España en Roma, Italy, 2022; "Memoria del presente" in Sala Atín Aya, Seville, 2020. In 2023, he participated in the group exhibitions "La huella de Roma", at Museum BB.AA. of Valencia and "El tiempo compartido" at Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid. As a filmmaker, notable works include the film essays: "La España Profunda" (2018), "Auschwitz on the beach" (2019), "ROMA... vita e notte" (2023). In live cinema, he conducted the project "Cantes tóxicos de los Flamencos" (with the poet Antonio Orihuela and flamenco singer Niño de Elche) from 2012 to 2016. He has developed audiovisual artifacts for singers (Rocío Márquez and Álvaro Romero) and poets (Enrique Falcón, Ana Pérez Cañamares, David Pielfort and Jorge Riechmann). He co-curated with Paul B. Preciado, "La Noche del Apagón" (MACBA, Barcelona, 2014). Among his publications are: "Mercado energético puro" Ed. La Vorágine, 2023, "Principle Potosi Archive" Ed. Buchhandlung Walther König (Germany), 2022, "Pregón de las patrias", Ed. Concreta, 2021 and "Camilo -és perillós abocar-se" Ed. Ajuntament Barcelona, 2018, among others.

Alba Lorente Hernández (Zaragoza, 1994) is a PhD in Contemporary Art Research at UPV/EHU, graduated from the Interdisciplinary Art Production Master's program at UMA and holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Zaragoza. Her work addresses a destructive aesthetic based on the work of some Latin American destructivist artists from the early 1960s. She views destruction as the creation of an image or plastic piece and as a methodology for understanding and channeling destructive tanatics impulses. She also develops a code to obtain another perception of beauty. She considers the plastic piece as a journey to treat it as a totem and the artistic process as a ritual. Among her solo exhibitions: "Los cuadernos de Arniches 26", Madrid (2023); "" Salvador Victoria Museum, Rubielos de Mora (2021); "Ater, atra, atrum", Tomás y Valiente Art Center, Fuenlabrada (2020); and "Resquicios", Torreón de Fortea, Zaragoza (2020). She has also "Acumen" exhibited collectively at the Instituto Cervantes in New York with La Pera Projects (2021), at Galería Cuatro, Valencia (2021), at Palacio de Sástago, Zaragoza (2020) and at Galería Antoni Pinyol, Reus (2019). She was a resident at the Casa de Velázquez (2022/2023). She presented a conference at Speakers' Corner and exhibited at Art Libris, ARCO Fair (2023). She received the Best Young Aragonese Artist Award 2023 awarded by AACA, the second Prize for Young Painting Ibercaja (2022), the acquisition prize at the MARTE Fair (2022), residency of the XVII Promotion at the Antonio Gala Foundation (2019/2020) and the acquisition prize at the Four Seasons Hotel in Madrid (2018), among others.

Samuel Perea Díaz (Marchena, Seville, 1988) is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher and designer whose practice encompasses sound art, architecture and curation. He holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Seville and a Master's degree in Sound Art from the University of the Arts Berlin, where he currently resides and works. Perea Díaz has held solo exhibitions such as "Sonic Interstices" at GlogauAIR, Berlin, 2022, and has participated in several group shows including "Material Auralities" at Errant Bodies, Berlin, 2023; "An AIDS Walkthrough" at WeAreVillage, Berlin, 2023; "Stretching Materialities" at TA T, Berlin, 2022; "Listening to Listening" at 48 Hours Neukölln, Berlin, 2021 and "Navigating Berlin" at CLB, Berlin, 2020. He participated in the Sound Art and Electroacoustic Music Festival, Kontakte'19, Berlin, 2019. He has led various collective listening workshops, including "A Building made of Sound" GlogauAIR, Berlin, 2022, and soundwalks, such as the one designed for the public program of Wild Frictions. "The Politics and Poetics of Interruptions", Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, 2021. He has given talks at cultural institutions such as Martin-Gropius-Bau, 2023; Schwules Museum, 2022, and Architekturos fondas, Vilnius, 2021. He has undertaken various artistic residencies within the context of Matters of Activity, Berlin, 2021, and at GlogauAIR, Berlin, 2022-2023. He has received different awards and recognitions, including the visual artists and curators scholarship from the Berlin Senate, 2023; awarded by the Artistic Memory Chema Alvargonzález, Berlin, 2022, and selected in the 2021 call of "A Secas. Andalusian Artists Now" by the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo.

Beatriz Ruibal García (Pontevedra, 1969) develops her work through photographic essays, video art and installations. Her aesthetic, historical, and social interests stem from her formation in philosophy and audiovisual communication. The fundamental themes she addresses express her concern for the fragility of contemporary existence, as well as the concept of absence and its visual representation through the spaces we inhabit, the nature that shelters us, and the objects we choose to perpetuate ourselves. Her photographic essays attempt to preserve individual memory and its legacy for current and future generations. Her videos and installations, on the other hand, demand the ethical and civil responsibility of individuals and contemporary societies regarding the future of nature, climate change and the conservation of endangered species. Her working methodology unfolds in three fundamental moments: first, the research of contexts of her interest for historical, social, and/or cultural reasons; secondly, the selection of those actors, environments or objects that she considers representative of such individualities and contexts; and thirdly, the creation of her image and symbolic representation. Therefore, she considers her work as a photographic portrait in its broadest sense.

Among her solo exhibitions are: "Caída Libre (Free Fall)" Panteón de España, Patrimonio Nacional, PHotoEspaña, 2022, "Upcoming Inventario", traveling exhibition through a selection of Instituto Cervantes, 2024/2025. She has also participated in significant group exhibitions, such as "G20 Art Project", "Together we art" representing Spain as part of India's presidency in the G20, with the work "No lo encontraréis en los mapas" National Museum, New Delhi and Bihar Museum Patna, India, 2023; "Caída Libre. Hora Pistes 7th edition. Ver La Guerra y Hacer la Paz" Centre Pompidou, 2023; "La huella de Roma" Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Valencia, 2023; "Roma siempre Roma: Infinitas Formas" Fundación Enaire, Naves de Gamazo, Santander; "Artistas en Producción" Estudio 50, Havana, Cuba; "Tomar la Casa" Real Academia de España en Roma, 2022. She has received various awards and recognitions for her artistic work, including the BMW Digital Art Prize, 2023; Grants for the Promotion of Art and Aid for Research, Creation and Artistic Production in the field of Visual Arts from the Ministry of Culture, 2020 and 2022; Audiovisual Creation Aid from the Community of Madrid, 2019; Artistic Residence Grant at the Real Academia de España in Rome, 2016-2017, among others.