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2024 Preparing an exhibition on teenagers in need.
2023
"Development?" (About femicides) AGUACERO Festival MAV (Women in visual arts) & Nadie, nunca, nada, no Gallery, Madrid Spain.
2022
GREEN IN OUR HANDS. A series of workshops, exhibition & performance in Sarapiquí, Costa Rica.
youtu.be/2Nh5VurvwN4?si=DPnPwnhmq2SntuTG
2021
Vídeo Performance We walk together, Cañada del Hoyo, Cuenca, Spain.
youtu.be/jELOqmnz954?feature=shared
2021
Video performance THE EMBRACE. Long before the death of the last tree... a forest has already desappeared.
- https://youtu.be/vbjDIESQYzE
- http://madc.cr/es/expo/proxima-temporada
- https://www.iisd.org/es/articles/arte-ciencia-y-cambio-climatico-forman-la-proxima-temporada-del-madc
- https://cambioclimatico.go.cr/arte-ciencia-y-cambio-climatico-forman-la-proxima-temporada-del-madc/
2020
Installation & performances HOW DO WE SEE OURSELVES IN THE MIRROR? Do we defend the institutionality?
- https://youtu.be/rdu3gppWLhA
- https://www.crhoy.com/entretenimiento/cultura/obra-artistica-muestra-las-principales-preocupaciones-de-los-costarricenses/
- https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2930142800430158
-https://www.rossellamatamoros.com/how-do-we-see-ourselves-in-the-mirror.html
THIS WAY. Museum of Contemporary Art & Design (MADC), Costa Rica.
https://madc.cr/es/expo/way
2019
Installation & performances HAVE YOU HEARD? HAVE YOU FELT IT? About pregnant teenagers at social risk. Costa Rica.
https://www.crhoy.com/entretenimiento/exposicion-relata-la-dura-realidad-de-las-adolescentes-madres/
https://sanjosevolando.com/eventos/el-arte-como-herramienta-social?fbclid=IwAR1fiaMjHm7YGfjTeEOL0vYoYrM8Si8yCwSdpqiMj79x6Xo_
XY7ymuvK6dQ
https://semanariouniversidad.com/cultura/sentir-el-arte-de-adolescentes-madres-en-alto-riesgo-social/
https://www.facebook.com/radioucr/videos/1249273098585238/?sfnsn=mo&d=n&vh=e
2018
Exhibition THE BORDER / IMMIGRANTS. National Gallery, Children's Museum, Costa Rica.
http://www.ticotimes.net/2018/05/27/5-questions-for-costa-rican-artist-rossella-matamoros
https://es-la.facebook.com/GaleriaNacionalCR/videos/1932642946779957/
https://es-la.facebook.com/GaleriaNacionalCR/videos/1918574228186829
Interview at Radio University of Costa Rica, about the exhibit THE BORDER / IMMIGRANTS. Program "Desayunos".
Desayunos 21/05/2018
2017
Exhibition & performances "Translucid Seeds" . Contemporary art & archeology. (About Indigenous Costa Rican Women yesterday & today) Itinerant exhibition through several places in Costa Rica & abroad. National Museum of Costa Rica, 130th anniversary. May - June 2017.
Links:
http://radios.ucr.ac.cr/radio-universidad/programas?playlist=81&track=326211274
https://www.larepublica.net/noticia/exposicion-rinde-homenaje-a-las-mujeres-indigenas
https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.larepublica.net/noticia/exposicion-rinde-homenaje-a-las-mujeres-indigenas&usg=ALkJrhhP5kLlZScNQrYnUVwBt2TqYXsB3A
2017
Radio Universidad DESAYUNOS. June 2017
http://radios.ucr.ac.cr/radio-universidad/programas?playlist=81&track=326211274
2017
Radio program ALTO VOLTAJE. May 2017
https://soundcloud.com/891radiocostarica/alto-voltaje-martes-30-de-mayo-2017-rosella-matamoros
2017
ITINERANT performance Festival 2017 NY. May 2017.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/itinerant/closing-event-itinerant-2017/1533539486679613/
2017
Performances about pregnant teenagers at social risk. National Salon of Visual Arts 2017. Costa Rican Art Museum. Costa Rica.
http://www.nacion.com/ocio/artes/Salon-Nacional-Artes-Visuales-intervenidos_0_1624237602.html
December 2015 - February 2016
Solo exhibit. "The Border" (Series of murals, paintings & collages based on the Sirian migrants 2015). Costa Rica.
November 2015
Participant of ITINERANT Performance Art Festival 2015, with HEART. At Queens Museum. https://youtu.be/JIz3YB_RuoI
Presentation of the book "Inefable Desire to Explore the Space". Autumm, NY. 2015.
August 2015
Intervew at Radio Universidad de Costa Rica, with Thais Aguilar & María Clara Vargas Cullell "Desayunos Universidad", 96.7 FM, CR.
"Prisma of Life by Rossella Matamoros"
link: http://radios.ucr.ac.cr/radio-universidad/programas/16-desayunos.html
Program: 20/Jul/2015
July 2015
New video "8 Episodes" on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4aTk45OBN0
Official presentation of the book "Rossella Matamoros-Ineffable Desire to Explore the Space" Book of 30 years of my art work at the Museums of The Central Bank, Costa Rica. The book was sponsored by LAFISE Bank. Costa Rica (In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Bank). The book is carried by the store of the Museums & is also available at Artist Studio.
November 2014
Workshops on "Trauma and Recovery" for abused women. Museum of San Ramón, Costa Rica and NYC, USA.
Solo Exhibit "Gestures". Costa Rica.
CR - view photos
NY - view photos
October 2014
Invited to participate at the performance Brooklyn Bred 2: "The Parable Conference" of Pablo Helguera. BAM FISHER theater, Brooklyn. NY. USA.
Workshop on Trauma and Recovery at Immigrant Movement International, Queens. USA. To be continued in 2015.
August 2014
"For the Record: Making and Documenting Performance Arts". Workshop with Coco Fusco. FAWC, Provincetown. Massachusetts, USA. 2014. and performance at FAWC "Burying Entanglements".
April-October 2014
Itinerant Installation and performances "Vulnerable / Load" part of the Exhibition "Women Citizens in Movement", CIICLA + Museo University of Costa Rica, (On the history of Costa Rican Suffragettes).
http://www.rossellamatamoros.com/vulnerable--load-dress.html
2023
"Development?" (About femicides) AGUACERO Festival MAV (Women in visual arts) & Nadie, nunca, nada, no Gallery, Madrid Spain.
2022
GREEN IN OUR HANDS. A series of workshops, exhibition & performance in Sarapiquí, Costa Rica.
youtu.be/2Nh5VurvwN4?si=DPnPwnhmq2SntuTG
2021
Vídeo Performance We walk together, Cañada del Hoyo, Cuenca, Spain.
youtu.be/jELOqmnz954?feature=shared
2021
Video performance THE EMBRACE. Long before the death of the last tree... a forest has already desappeared.
- https://youtu.be/vbjDIESQYzE
- http://madc.cr/es/expo/proxima-temporada
- https://www.iisd.org/es/articles/arte-ciencia-y-cambio-climatico-forman-la-proxima-temporada-del-madc
- https://cambioclimatico.go.cr/arte-ciencia-y-cambio-climatico-forman-la-proxima-temporada-del-madc/
2020
Installation & performances HOW DO WE SEE OURSELVES IN THE MIRROR? Do we defend the institutionality?
- https://youtu.be/rdu3gppWLhA
- https://www.crhoy.com/entretenimiento/cultura/obra-artistica-muestra-las-principales-preocupaciones-de-los-costarricenses/
- https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2930142800430158
-https://www.rossellamatamoros.com/how-do-we-see-ourselves-in-the-mirror.html
THIS WAY. Museum of Contemporary Art & Design (MADC), Costa Rica.
https://madc.cr/es/expo/way
2019
Installation & performances HAVE YOU HEARD? HAVE YOU FELT IT? About pregnant teenagers at social risk. Costa Rica.
https://www.crhoy.com/entretenimiento/exposicion-relata-la-dura-realidad-de-las-adolescentes-madres/
https://sanjosevolando.com/eventos/el-arte-como-herramienta-social?fbclid=IwAR1fiaMjHm7YGfjTeEOL0vYoYrM8Si8yCwSdpqiMj79x6Xo_
XY7ymuvK6dQ
https://semanariouniversidad.com/cultura/sentir-el-arte-de-adolescentes-madres-en-alto-riesgo-social/
https://www.facebook.com/radioucr/videos/1249273098585238/?sfnsn=mo&d=n&vh=e
2018
Exhibition THE BORDER / IMMIGRANTS. National Gallery, Children's Museum, Costa Rica.
http://www.ticotimes.net/2018/05/27/5-questions-for-costa-rican-artist-rossella-matamoros
https://es-la.facebook.com/GaleriaNacionalCR/videos/1932642946779957/
https://es-la.facebook.com/GaleriaNacionalCR/videos/1918574228186829
Interview at Radio University of Costa Rica, about the exhibit THE BORDER / IMMIGRANTS. Program "Desayunos".
Desayunos 21/05/2018
2017
Exhibition & performances "Translucid Seeds" . Contemporary art & archeology. (About Indigenous Costa Rican Women yesterday & today) Itinerant exhibition through several places in Costa Rica & abroad. National Museum of Costa Rica, 130th anniversary. May - June 2017.
Links:
http://radios.ucr.ac.cr/radio-universidad/programas?playlist=81&track=326211274
https://www.larepublica.net/noticia/exposicion-rinde-homenaje-a-las-mujeres-indigenas
https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.larepublica.net/noticia/exposicion-rinde-homenaje-a-las-mujeres-indigenas&usg=ALkJrhhP5kLlZScNQrYnUVwBt2TqYXsB3A
2017
Radio Universidad DESAYUNOS. June 2017
http://radios.ucr.ac.cr/radio-universidad/programas?playlist=81&track=326211274
2017
Radio program ALTO VOLTAJE. May 2017
https://soundcloud.com/891radiocostarica/alto-voltaje-martes-30-de-mayo-2017-rosella-matamoros
2017
ITINERANT performance Festival 2017 NY. May 2017.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/itinerant/closing-event-itinerant-2017/1533539486679613/
2017
Performances about pregnant teenagers at social risk. National Salon of Visual Arts 2017. Costa Rican Art Museum. Costa Rica.
http://www.nacion.com/ocio/artes/Salon-Nacional-Artes-Visuales-intervenidos_0_1624237602.html
December 2015 - February 2016
Solo exhibit. "The Border" (Series of murals, paintings & collages based on the Sirian migrants 2015). Costa Rica.
November 2015
Participant of ITINERANT Performance Art Festival 2015, with HEART. At Queens Museum. https://youtu.be/JIz3YB_RuoI
Presentation of the book "Inefable Desire to Explore the Space". Autumm, NY. 2015.
August 2015
Intervew at Radio Universidad de Costa Rica, with Thais Aguilar & María Clara Vargas Cullell "Desayunos Universidad", 96.7 FM, CR.
"Prisma of Life by Rossella Matamoros"
link: http://radios.ucr.ac.cr/radio-universidad/programas/16-desayunos.html
Program: 20/Jul/2015
July 2015
New video "8 Episodes" on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4aTk45OBN0
Official presentation of the book "Rossella Matamoros-Ineffable Desire to Explore the Space" Book of 30 years of my art work at the Museums of The Central Bank, Costa Rica. The book was sponsored by LAFISE Bank. Costa Rica (In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Bank). The book is carried by the store of the Museums & is also available at Artist Studio.
November 2014
Workshops on "Trauma and Recovery" for abused women. Museum of San Ramón, Costa Rica and NYC, USA.
Solo Exhibit "Gestures". Costa Rica.
CR - view photos
NY - view photos
October 2014
Invited to participate at the performance Brooklyn Bred 2: "The Parable Conference" of Pablo Helguera. BAM FISHER theater, Brooklyn. NY. USA.
Workshop on Trauma and Recovery at Immigrant Movement International, Queens. USA. To be continued in 2015.
August 2014
"For the Record: Making and Documenting Performance Arts". Workshop with Coco Fusco. FAWC, Provincetown. Massachusetts, USA. 2014. and performance at FAWC "Burying Entanglements".
April-October 2014
Itinerant Installation and performances "Vulnerable / Load" part of the Exhibition "Women Citizens in Movement", CIICLA + Museo University of Costa Rica, (On the history of Costa Rican Suffragettes).
http://www.rossellamatamoros.com/vulnerable--load-dress.html