Laura Arensburg works with moving images and bodies. She graduated from the ENERC, the INCAA film school and the Independent Studies Programme of the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA). She studied Combined Arts at the University of Buenos Aires, and she is currently studying a master’s degree in Contemporary Latin American Aesthetics at the UNDAV. She trained in audiovisual creation under Albertina Carri, Andrés di Tella and Nele Wohlatz. She is currently producing her first feature-length documentary, La Partida, which benefits from an endowment for documentary films from INCAA, the 2018 and 2020 MecenazgoBA awards, and the creation scholarship from the Argentine National Arts Fund 2019. It is with this project that she participated in the Walden Residency, coordinated by Marta Andreu, and the gender perspective script workshop at DAC Argentina. As an offshoot of this film, she created Las (com)Partidas, a performative conference that received the scholarship for research and innovation in visual arts 2020 from the Catalan regional government and which was carried out during her research residency at the MACBA. She was recently awarded a research and experimentation residence scholarship at the Arts Santa Mònica art centre, where she will work on subjects surrounding mediation and various forms of perception of contemporary art. She is also a participant in the “Proyecto Co” by La Escocesa at the Consultori, coordinating counselling activities for artists.In 2020, she was awarded a scholarship from the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Fund for the Sacudón de miradas video workshop, which she carried out at the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art. She was also selected as part of the Las Arenas Movedizas collective to carry out the Colectivo hacia rincones desorbitantes interactive at the Usina del Arte (AR). She has been a resident artist at the Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas (AR), Hangar (ES), MACBA (ES) and at La Escocesa (ES), where she was awarded the NEXES Poble Nou scholarship for the Labrotopías colectivas video workshop with teenagers, which she carried out alongside Julieta Obiols, and the 2019 Research/Experimentation scholarship for her experiential project Malvidentes, which likewise received a research and innovation scholarship in the field of visual arts from the Catalan Regional Government in 2019. In 2019 and 2020, she coordinated the non-fiction film club at the MACBA (Spain) alongside Catarina Bothelo, where she also carried out guided tours for the Un siglo breve exhibition. Between 2014 and 2018, she also programmed and coordinated Ciclo Cuerpos at the Matienzo Cultural Centre in Buenos Aires. She also acted as assistant general in the Pensar Contemporáneo art and education programme at the España Cultural Centre in Buenos Aires, and she created guided tours for the La poética del Papel exhibition by Eduardo Chillida. Her videos have won prizes from INCAA, MecenazgoBA and Prodanza Buenos and have been displayed at international film festivals and art centres including La Nit dels Museus MACBA (BCN), the Mar del Plata film festival, L´Alternativa, Asterisco, Bogoshorts, and Bideodromo-BilbaoArte, among others. She has worked on the production of documentary and fiction films by Dora García, Ana Quiroga and Miguel Perez, Pablo Fendrik, David Blaustein, and Andrés Habegger; on video dance and art pieces by Daniel Böhm, Noemí Lapezesohn and Alejandra Riera; and she was a production assistant for Edgardo Mercado’s choreographic works. She has also worked in the production area of MTV Networks International and in documentaries for Canal Encuentro and DeporTV under the auspices of the Argentine Ministry of Education.
Last udpated: 11th November 20212