Exhibition
EXHIBITION AT SAVVY CONTEMPORARY - HISTORICAL CHILDREN: LULLABIES FROM WOUNDS TO WONDER

RESEARCH, EXHIBITION AND INTERGENERATIONAL PARTICIPATORY PROJECT
OPENING  30.11.2024  4 pm
ON VIEW 01.12.2024–24.01.2025  Thursday–Sunday  14:00–19:00

To read more about this beautiful project click here

Exhibition
Weserhalle : Auction 13

Show: 23. Nov '24 — 30. Nov '24

Weserhalle : Art Auction 13, co-curated by Matthias Arndt. Showcasing over many 40 artists among others Andy Kassier, Lukas Liese, Roberto Rivadeneira, Katharina Reinsbach... This week-long auction is divided into two parts: The online aspect allows you to bid on each of the artworks in our auction here. The physical exhibition at Weserstraße 56 allows you to experience a selection of the artworks in person.

Online Bidding: Opens: Nov 23rd, 2pm CET / Closes: Nov 30th, 8pm CET

Interview

A World of Blue and Playful Healing with Irene Fernández Arcas by Design Hotels

I am really happy with the interview and showcase that Vidula Kotian did for Design Hotels. You can read it here.

Exhibition

Elephant and Castle

Vernissage 23.11.24 at 7 pm 
Show until 23.2.24

Fundraiser

HELP VAGENCIA AFTER DANA FLOODS

"ONLY THE PEOPLE SAVE THE PEOPLE"
RAISING FUNDS FOR THE VICTIMS 
PAELLA & MARKET * FOOD • DRINKS • DJ'S • PRINTS •CLOTHES • VINYLS

17 NOV • 12 H  at Torstr.230 - 10115 Berlin

Album Release

House Therapy

I did the cover for the album of Hero you can listen or buy here

Artist Residency

VIII edición de la Residencia Artística

José Guerrero a José Casas Hernández y a Irene Fernández Arcas

Fundraiser

JOY AND PAIN + REFUGE WORLDWIDE + OONA BAR

Event was put together as a fundraiser for the Democratic Republic of Congo, specifically in support of the @malaikadrc foundationMy artistic contribution is the creation a merch line titled “Joy&Pain,” designed specifically for this event. The key item is a limited-edition, blue long-sleeve shirt,screen printed by @blackinkberlin. Write me a mail if you are interested.

Fundraiser Event

Joy and Pain + City Boy at Refuge Worldwide 

On the 30th August, we will be hosting a night at @refugeworldwide. The event will be a release party for D’Aro Mambu’s debut album “City Boy” (released on the same day) and a fundraiser for the DRC.  We will be specifically raising funds in support of the Malaika Foundation (@malaikadrc), which does tremendous work providing comprehensive education to over 400 girls in the eastern Congolese village of Kalebuka, from primary to secondary levels. The foundation’s work also focuses on fostering sustainable development in the village, more broadly.

Event

Open Studios Tempelhof 2024

6th July 2024 from 14:00 - 19:00
Teilestrasse 11-16, 12099 Berlin
Entrance by TOR 3, Hinterhof 1. (3rd floor)
We will be waiting you at atelier 958

Workshop

BLUEHEARTNESS

Session of writing and drawing as a form of creative rituals of ease and care. Creating poems and comics as a tool
of laughing about oneself. (and maybe liberating yourself from the fear of drawing). The space of Sacre Bleu will as

Saturday 13.04.24 , 16-18hr At Sacrebleu  Kienitzer Str. 95, 12049 Berlin

Exhibition 

Venice Biennale 2024, Foreigners Everywhere

My work, “Foreigners carrying shit in Venice"  is included in By the Means at Hand, Vlatka Horvat's project for the Croatian Pavilion at the 60^th Venice Biennale. 

Exhibition + Event

Shape Shifting as a State of Being

with Lorena Angenault, Irene Fernández Arcas, Tim Flemmings, Lea Hopp, Annabelle Kuhm, Klaudia Lewi.
Saturday 10 February 2024 from 2-7 pm at Villa Capri, Vilafranca de Bonany, Mallorca

Villa Capri is hosting a series of collective transformative residencies and retreats created by collective 433

Performance

COLLECTIVE DAYDREAMING BREATHING & SLEEPING IN THE TEMPLE OF COLLECTIVE REGENERATION - Kunstmuseum Bochum

On Saturday, March 16, artist Irene Fernández Arcas and yoga teacher Amanda Morelli invite you to a collective self-care session in her installation Hygiea's Cave - Temple of Collective Regeneration. An afternoon of sleeping, dreaming and exploring practices of caring for one another through shared conversations and special breathing and meditation exercises. Everyone is welcome to join in the daydreaming together.

11 a.m. Breathing exercise and water wave meditation With the help of breathing and meditation techniques (pranayama), subjective and collective experiences of letting go and refining perception towards a state of inner peace and listening are learned.
1 p.m. Collective, almost sleep-like, conscious daydreaming Space and time to calm down and even dream dreams that the goddess Hygieia will place in our eyelids.
14.30 Performance + Dialogue and closing ritual with Irene Fernández Arcas, Amanda Morelli and all participants Dreams and health - resilience instead of trauma. How can we move from "being sick and getting well" to "staying well"? After a period of meditation and rest, everyone comes together again to share their experiences. The artist sees dialog as the place where art is activated and where transformation can begin. The oldest domestic ritual in existence is the sharing of food and the associated care for one another. In a small, symbolic feast, a celebration of health and life, snacks are served at the end of the collective daydream, prepared by the artist as a concluding ritual.

Production for this Performance  with the support of the Embassy of Spain - AECID

Exhibition

OUR HOUSE IS A VERY VERY VERY FINE HOUSE - Gruppenausstellung zum 40-jährigen Jubiläum des Museumsgebäudes
18 Nov 2023— 17 March 2024

Das 40-jährige Jubiläum des Museumsbaus ist Ausgangspunkt, kritisch auf die Gegenwart und in die Zukunft zu schauen und gemeinsam erfinderisch zu werden.

MIT : Irene Fernández Arcas, Maximiliane Baumgartner, Dias & Riedweg, Mascha Fehse & Valentina Karga, Max Hübener, Alper Kazokoglu, Suchan Kinoshita & Olivier Foulon, Sara Manente, Deborah Robbiano & Sébastien Tripod, Fion Pellacini, Laure Prouvost, Theresa Weber.

Performance

Collective Listening: Your Inner Forest / in context of Kunst im Untergrund + NGBK

Thursday 15.6 we activate again the ubahn, at 8pm in Kottbussertor, at the u1 platform, for a collective listening of the audio work „Your inner forest". We will wait at the collage painting - We will scann the QR code together, and -each in the language of choice- listen the guided meditation, while walking silently slowly to Mariannenplatz, where we will gather for a conversation, feedback round and sunset vibe.

Opening + Performance

Kunst im Untergrund 

Friday 9.6: official opening, Kottbussertor + Südblock

Inner Care in Public spaces” is an artwork I created in collaboration with other artists and professionals, in context of kunst im untergrund. This work & long process is presented in many different layers: Paintings in Kottbussertor ubahn, a multimedia meditation to your Inner Forest, an artistic research of conversations... and I also invited Choreographer Franka Marlene Foth for a colllaboration. we created a performance that will be happening friday 9.6 at 6:30 pm in Kotti, in front of Südblock!

Exhibition

Altar a los Sanares de la Alegria

Galeria La Raiz, Granada, España - 28.4 - 21.5

Grant

Kunst im Untergrund NGBK

International art competition »Art in the Underground 2022/23: new urban publics«, a nine-member prize jury has selected six proposals that deal with current changes in social practice: Irene Fernandez Arcas: Exploring Inner Care in Public Spaces (AT), and: Julieta Ortiz de Latierro, sandy kaltenborn, athena javanmardi, paco camberlin, Sunny Pfalzer: Sinzo Aanza, Jasmina Al-Qaisi, Falonne Mambu, Nada Tshibwabwa, Ralf Wendt, Elsa Westreicher, Liminal Beast of Prey.
The works, visible in public from June through August 2023, link Berlin’s subway with urban spaces above ground.Three Berlin locations and their subway stations serve as the settings for artistic interventions: Kottbusser Tor, Strausberger Platz and Rotes Rathaus.The selected works seek to amplify and highlight these usages, making each site into an actor—as sites, occasions, and objects of alternative political self-organization.
Irene Fernandez Arcas is interested in the healing potential of art; focusing on the neoliberal exploitation of self-care, body, and mind, her work examines the desire to achieve intimacy and make connections in urban settings.

Installation + Performance

Seasons of spirit

Performative dinner für soft power 
Seasons of spirit *Sensorial rite experience*
Choreographiert von Irene Fernández Arcas, Nadav Naim Kirsh, Ayscha Zarina Omar und Alina Lehle

Exhibition

THE END OF TIMES SIGNALS NEW BEGINNINGS / UNSEEN REALITIES
 4 - 13 Nov 2022
SomoS Art House, Berlin

PLĀS COLLECTIVE with Elenia Beretta, růstcakes, Ondrej Vanek, Irene Fernández Arcas, Stefanija Pejchinovska, Sara Scanderebech, Pablo Diserens + Diane Barbé, and Chika Takahash

Exhibition

THE FAIREST 01:Open Your Eyes Again

‍Inaugural annual art fair  / 60+ Artists
Kühlhaus, Luckenwalder Str. 3, 10963 Berlin

OPENING: SEP 13, 5 - 11 pm
FAIR: SEP 14 - 18, 12 - 6 pm
Performative Collaborative Ritual: Never exhausted always easy, SEPT 18, 2 pm

Activation

Gallery Weekend Berlin

On 28 April (Thursday) at 4 pm, the curator Solvej Helweg Ovesen and the artist Irene Fernández Arcas will guide visitors through the exhibition “Existing Otherwise – Inner Jungle” by Irene Fernández Arcas and tell about the background of the project in a dialogue tour.

At 5 pm, the artist and author Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju invites you to the presentation of her new text collection Earnestly. 

At 6 pm, the artists Irene Fernández Arcas and Victoria Fechtner will perform a ritual “Ritual a la Alegria” in the exhibition. Register here for more information: hello@irenefernandezarcas.com.

Events

Galerie Wedding - Inner Jungle
Activations:

7.04.2022 Opening, 7 to 10 pm / Hot shot de Yoggaton + DJ Set with Maque Pereyra, 7 pm
18.04.2022 at 6pm Workshop “Rehearsing Care & Collectivity” with Dora Durkesac
28.04.2022 at 4pm Guided tour of the exhibition with Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Irene Fernández Arcas / 5pm Book presentation of “Earnestly” with Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju / 6pm Ritual with Irene Fernández Arcas und Victoria Fechtner
29. 04.2022 at 5 pm Flamenco evening “Jaleo y Risa” with Tablao Flamenco Tempelhof & Friends
17.05.2022 Workshop for children “In Translation” with Thomias Radin
20.05.2022 5 pm Artist-Talk “Diálogos de Junglas Internas” with Irene Fernández Arcas and Ana Lessing Menjibar /  7 pm Concert and Record Release “Corrientes vitales” by Isasi Armengod

Exhibition

Existing Otherwise – Inner Jungle Galerie Wedding
08.04. – 21.05. 2022
Solo exhibition by Irene Fernández Arcas
Curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen

Grant

The Art of Staying Healthy

Funding for our Project STIMULI (with designer Laetitia Barbu) from Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture (NDPC), EUNIC Global and The Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being (NDPHS), supported by the Arts Promotion Centre from Finland. To empower collaboration between the arts and health sectors and to pilot arts interventions in the health and well-being of people and communities.

Activation

Ritual : Altar a la Risa
Saturday, 4.12., Activation at 5 p.m, Ritual at 7 p.m.

This activation revolves around domestic rituals, celebration and laughter. We create an inner garden as a practice of care.
The first part is a dialogue on transformation, care, rituals and laugh. In the second part we will make a ceremony we have designed together, a choreography of gestures and actions, a collective experience to explore our inner laughter. The activation brings movement to the habitable installation Altar a la Risa. With Irene Fernández Arcas in Mutual Matters exhibition 

Exhibition

MUTUAL MATTERS – Goldrausch 2021⁠

Opening: Saturday, November 20, from 4 until 9 p.m.⁠
With: Katharina Bévand, Irma Blumstock, Veruschka Bohn, Ahu Dural, Dora Durkesac, Irene Fernández Arcas, Lexia Hachtmann, Heyon Han, Bethan Hughes, Barbara Lüdde, Rachel Monosov , Ingrid Ogenstedt, Nnenna Onuoha, Anna Slobdonik, Hana Yoo 

Sammlung Haubrok, Fahrbereitschaft, Große Halle, Haus 4⁠

21. November–05. Dezember 2021 / Tue – Sun: 2 p.m – 7 p.m.⁠ Fr: 2 p.m – 8 p.m.⁠

Artist Residency

Hotel Luna Mondschein and Villa Arnica
with Karla Hiraldo Voleau
September 2021, Bolzano
Article

Interview

Fünf Fragen an Irene Fernández Arcas, Interview: Beate Scheder
In context of Goldrausch Stipendium
2021

Exhibition

Direkte Auktion

SLOT 30: LET EXPERI­MENTS BECOME ATTITUDE
THE FAIREST

Previewing vom 21.9.2021, 15 Uhr bis 25.9.2021, 18 Uhr, XBERG Tower (Postbank), Berlin
Auktion am 25.9.2021, 15 bis 18 Uhr, Salon am Oranienplatz, Berlin

Performance

La noche de San Juan
Insola
with Luna Carlos Armengod
June 20 2021, 16 pm

Heal your Body
Original Feelings Studio, Berlin
June 15-30, 2021

Performance

La Noche de Santuario - Ritual & Performance by Irene Fernández Arcas 

This ritual was a collective experience to explore our inner force/fire and burning fears— based on the Spanish celebration of summer solstice. The happening was about domestic rituals, celebration and identity. It happened in full moon summer solstice, and was done in context of the Stand.by exhibition of Irene at @theinstituteforendoticresearch in Berlin, 20 Juni 2020

Activation

“The erotic, sensuality, mythology and feminism”

The Institute of Endotic Researc

June 25 2020, 19:00 – Collective Reading  With Tarn Rodgers Johns & Irene Fernández Arcas
RSVP to hello@irenefernandezarcas.com

Activation

Be healthy, stay now; stay healthy, be now. (online)

June 12 2020 19:00 – A conversation between Irene Fernández Arcas & Maxence Allain – about self care, health, nowness and simple guidelines on staying confident, amid the pandemic crisis and always. Use this link to join: https://meet.jit.si/TheInstituteForEndoticResearch

Exhibition

Kunstkammer Westwendlicher Kunstverein Gartow

Kuratiert von Susanne Sube-Schindler und Anna Gräfin von Bernstorff
August 2020

Artist Residency

Floating University at Mark Dion House
Westwendlicher Kunstverein
Gartow
August 2020

Installation + Performance

Seasons of spirit

Performative dinner für soft power 
Seasons of spirit *Sensorial rite experience*
Choreographiert von Irene Fernández Arcas, Nadav Naim Kirsh, Ayscha Zarina Omar und Alina Lehle

Conference + Installation

Schöpfen ohne Erschöpfung. Nachhaltigkeit im Kunst- und Kulturbetrieb
Kommunale Galerien Berin, in Zitadelle – ZAK Zentrum für aktuelle Kunst, Spandau
05.11.2022, 10 bis 21 Uhr

Exhibition

THE END OF TIMES SIGNALS NEW BEGINNINGS / UNSEEN REALITIES
 4 - 13 Nov 2022
SomoS Art House, Berlin

PLĀS COLLECTIVE with Elenia Beretta, růstcakes, Ondrej Vanek, Irene Fernández Arcas, Stefanija Pejchinovska, Sara Scanderebech, Pablo Diserens + Diane Barbé, and Chika Takahash

Exhibition

THE FAIREST 01:Open Your Eyes Again

‍Inaugural annual art fair  / 60+ Artists
Kühlhaus, Luckenwalder Str. 3, 10963 Berlin

OPENING: SEP 13, 5 - 11 pm
FAIR: SEP 14 - 18, 12 - 6 pm
Performative Collaborative Ritual: Never exhausted always easy, SEPT 18, 2 pm

Activation

Gallery Weekend Berlin

On 28 April (Thursday) at 4 pm, the curator Solvej Helweg Ovesen and the artist Irene Fernández Arcas will guide visitors through the exhibition “Existing Otherwise – Inner Jungle” by Irene Fernández Arcas and tell about the background of the project in a dialogue tour.

At 5 pm, the artist and author Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju invites you to the presentation of her new text collection Earnestly. 

At 6 pm, the artists Irene Fernández Arcas and Victoria Fechtner will perform a ritual “Ritual a la Alegria” in the exhibition. Register here for more information: hello@irenefernandezarcas.com.

Exhibition

Existing Otherwise – Inner Jungle Galerie Wedding
08.04. – 21.05. 2022
Solo exhibition by Irene Fernández Arcas
Curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen

Grant

The Art of Staying Healthy

Funding for our Project STIMULI (with designer Laetitia Barbu) from Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture (NDPC), EUNIC Global and The Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being (NDPHS), supported by the Arts Promotion Centre from Finland. To empower collaboration between the arts and health sectors and to pilot arts interventions in the health and well-being of people and communities.

Exhibition

Ipso Facto‍
Kühlhaus, Berlin
July 17-23, 2021

Artist Residency

Floating University at Mark Dion House
Westwendlicher Kunstverein
Gartow
August 2020